“England’s children’s commissioner has expressed concerns over guidelines allowing courts to identify young offenders involved in the summer riots, warning this could affect their safety and hurt their adult lives.”
The Guardian, 17th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Children’s Commissioner publishes a series of recommendations to improve the Government’s human rights record on children.”
Children’s Commissioner, 18th december 2011
Source: www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk
“The family of a British toddler who went missing 20 years ago have won a High Court battle to have his DNA released in a new attempt to trace him.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Lawyers are planning a ‘class action’ on behalf of 23 families who contacted them with ‘shocking’ claims of indignities and the most basic failings in care. They believe the families who have contacted them so far about care at Alexandra Hospital, in Redditch, West Midlands, may represent ‘the tip of the iceberg’.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Home Office says it is doing all it can to speed up the deportation of foreigners convicted of serious crimes. The Sunday Times has obtained a leaked UK Border Agency report that details re-offending by foreign criminals who have served jail terms in Britain.”
BBC News, 18th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“New rules to stop a resurgence in risky mortgage lending are likely to be imposed in 2013 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).”
BBC News, 19th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The City of London Corporation has lost control of St Paul’s Cathedral, the high court will hear on Monday, with members of an activist camp ‘setting rules and policing behaviour’ in the churchyard. A trial, lasting up to four days, will determine whether Occupy London protesters can stay on the land outside the building or not.”
The Guardian, 18th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“MPs have come down firmly against the police employing water cannon or plastic bullets to quell any future repeat of the August riots. The Commons home affairs committee say in a report on Monday that their use in the summer would have been an indiscriminate and dangerous way of further inflaming the situation.”
The Guardian, 19th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An American woman who worships Norse gods has won the right to stay in Britain because of her ‘family life’ with her boyfriend and his wife.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A woman was allowed into the UK to live with a partner she claimed she had met on the internet despite being unable to prove that she had ever even spoken to him, a report into the UK Border Agency (UKBA) reveals.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Tory MP has been given the green light to sue the Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers for libel over allegations he bullied a female colleague. Dominic Raab is suing the publisher over a Mail on Sunday article published on 30 January that alleged he bullied the colleague, referred to in court as ‘E’, while he worked as chief of staff to David Davis between 2006 and 2008.”
The Guardian, 16th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The high court has upheld a government rule requiring spouses to prove they can speak English before they can join their partners in Britain. Mr Justice Beatson dismissed a judicial review challenge brought by three couples to the immigration rule introduced last November on the grounds that it was racist and would break up their families.”
The Guardian, 16th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Dr Eva Michalak has won £4.5 million in compensation after her bosses mounted a campaign against her when she fell pregnant.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The High Court has dismissed a challenge to laws that require immigrant spouses to be able to speak English in order to live in the UK.”
BBC News, 16th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The highest court in the land has granted permission for Julian Assange to appeal against his extradition to Sweden, where he faces sex crime allegations.”
The Guardian, 16th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A grandmother fractured her thigh after slipping on a plastic icicle which should have been cleared away by Father Christmas and his elf at Selfridges’ grotto, the Appeal Court has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The legal profession is unprepared for conflicts of interest in personal injury law that will occur from 2012, the Gazette has been told. Such conflicts could leave PI lawyers open to negligence claims and increase professional indemnity insurance premiums.”
Law Society Gazette, 15th December 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Regina v Ideal Waste Paper Co Ltd and others: [2011] WLR (D) 370
“The absence of guidance relating to the permissible levels of contamination of waste which could legally be exported did not render criminal proceedings an abuse of process on grounds that the charges were so imprecise as to offend the requirements of the common law and of article 7 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning accessibility and certainty of criminal offences.”
WLR Daily, 14th December 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Crown Court did not have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to all aspects of the enforcement of confiscation orders.”
WLR Daily, 14th December 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Where a relevant detaining authority initially had control over an applicant for a writ of habeas corpus, and subsequently claimed to have lost that control, a factual issue for the court’s determination was raised, and it would be wrong for the court simply to accept the detaining authority’s claim in the context of an application for the issue of the writ.”
WLR Daily, 14th December 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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