“More than 130 Metropolitan Police (Met) officers were allowed to resign rather than facing misconducts panels over the last year, figures have shown.”
BBC News, 2nd January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Large vans and minibuses which are more than 10 years old are facing a new charge of £100 a day in Greater London, if they fail to meet pollution limits.”
BBC News, 3rd January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Forces across England and Wales employ policemen and women with convictions including burglary, causing death by careless driving, robbery, supplying drugs, domestic violence, forgery and perverting the course of justice.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Council tenants are to be banned from subletting their properties as the government prepares to introduce criminal offences to crack down on the ‘scandal’ of housing tenancy fraud and abuse.”
The Guardian, 1st January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government and opposition are being urged to overhaul England’s ‘failing’ social care system, which experts say is leaving 800,000 elderly people ‘lonely, isolated and at risk’. In a letter published in the Telegraph a group of more than 60 government advisers, charity directors and independent experts said failure to meet the challenge of an ageing population was resulting in ‘terrible examples of abuse and neglect’.”
The Guardian, 3rd January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The law on assisted dying is ‘incoherent and unsafe’ and must be changed, the former Metropolitan Police commissioner Ian Blair warns today, ahead of a landmark report on helping the terminally ill to take their own lives.”
The Independent, 1st Janaury 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The number of appeals against deprivation of liberty orders has surged in the aftermath of a controversial Court of Protection case championed by The Independent, new figures show.”
The Independent, 2nd January 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“More than 70 disabled patients have died because of mistakes by hospital staff in the past decade, it was claimed. Mencap, a disability charity, described the findings in its report as damning, adding that as a result of ‘institutional discrimination in the NHS’ people were needlessly dying.’ ”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The work of the Armed Forces could be undermined by a European Directive that the Coalition has chosen to adopt, the Ministry of Defence has warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd January 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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“Three men from Bridgwater, Somerset, who ‘bullied’ motorists out of thousands of pounds in an illegal clamping business have been jailed.”
BBC News, 19th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A sex offender who moved to Merseyside from the Netherlands to contact a 12-year-old girl directly has been jailed.”
BBC News, 20th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Exam watchdog Ofqual has ordered the re-writing of an exam paper and threatens further action as it investigates reports that exam boards are giving unfair advice to teachers.”
BBC News, 21st December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The promotion of Lord Justice Carnwath and Lord Reed to the supreme court is to be warmly welcomed, even though neither of them is a woman. The court will need a chancery specialist when Lord Walker retires. Sir Robert Carnwath served as a judge of the high court chancery division for eight years, the last three as chairman of the Law Commission. Though 66, he can remain a justice of the supreme court until he is 75.”
The Guardian, 20th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government is pressing ahead with legislation to enact its controversial public sector pension reform in the new year, even though an agreement has not been reached with unions to end the bitter dispute.”
The Independent, 20th December 2011
Source: www.indpendent.co.uk
“Matthew Banks, a student at Manchester University, will spend Christmas behind bars after lying to the court over his illness so he could go to the theatre instead.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Revenue And Customs v AXA UK Plc [2011] EWCA Civ 1607 (20 December 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Perdoni & Anor v Curati [2011] EWHC 3442 (Ch) (20 December 2011)
High Court (Family Division)
P & L (Minors), Re [2011] EWHC 3431 (Fam) (20 December 2011)
SH v MM & Anor [2011] EWHC 3314 (Fam) (13 December 2011)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Morrison v Buckinghamshire County Council & Anor [2011] EWHC 3444 (QB) (20 December 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
“There are ‘specific and systemic’ failures in the way in which HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) handles tax disputes with big companies which must be addressed, an influential committee of MPs has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Loans between pension schemes are ‘unauthorised payments’ which cannot be used as a way of unlocking pension capital before a scheme member retires, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Court of Appeal has decided that a failure to provide a life sentence prisoner with a minimum of one hour in the open air each day did not constitute a breach of his human rights under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (‘ECHR’).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th December 2011
Source: http://ukhumanrightsblog.com
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