“BBC Worldwide is suing an Italian television network owned by Silvio Berlusconi over claims that it has copied Strictly Come Dancing.”
BBC News, 21st September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The organisers of ‘barbaric’ cage fighting involving children as young as eight will face no police action, it has been announced.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A millionaire’s daughter accused of stealing televisions and mobile phones during the London riots was told yesterday she could not resume her university studies until after her trial next month.”
The Independent, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“David Cameron and his most senior aides face being forced to open up their private email accounts to see if they contain details of sensitive government business hidden from the Civil Service. A meeting of permanent secretaries yesterday discussed ordering a ‘trawl’ of personal email accounts held by Mr Cameron, senior aides and government ministers to see if they contain messages which fall within the remit of the Freedom of Information Act, The Independent understands.”
The Independent, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government’s plans to remove legal aid in private law family cases will place the UK in breach of its obligations under a United Nations convention to prevent discrimination against women, the Gazette has been told.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The European Commission has created the basis for the digitising and distribution by libraries of out of print books that are still protected by copyright, it has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“As we recently posted, the UK Commission on a Bill of Rights has published its interim advice to Government on reform of the European Court of Human Rights. The Commission made recommendations to achieve the ‘effective functioning of the Court over the long term’, following which Joshua Rozenberg stated that ‘everybody now agrees on the need for fundamental reform. It has to happen. And it will.’ But if there is such agreement, can the Commission’s recommendations produce any meaningful reform? Or do the proposals simply rehash old ideas?”
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th September 2011
Source: http://ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Metropolitan police is to be allowed explain to MPs in private why it threatened to invoke the Officials Secrets Act in an attempt to force the Guardian to hand over notes and reveal sources behind its phone-hacking coverage.”
The Guardian, 21st September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Families of those killed on all sides during the Troubles may take up civil claims once this precedent is set.”
The Guardian, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A plan to cut legal aid for patients left physically or mentally damaged by NHS care is being legally challenged by a medical safety charity. Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) has issued judicial review proceedings against the Government on the basis that the cuts are ‘irrational and unfair’. Seriously injured patients, such as babies who suffer brain damage as a result of substandard obstetrics care, will be denied the compensation that their families need to provide proper care for them, according to AvMA.”
The Independent, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Director-general of National Trust Dame Fiona Reynolds on the Coalition’s controversial planning reforms.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A police officer who lied under oath after being caught drink-driving is facing a jail term for perjury.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The teacher, who had a string of affairs, battered Marie Stewart to death then hid her body in a suitcase.”
The Guardian, 21st September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The first appeals by people convicted of being involved in the August riots are due to be heard next week.”
The Independent, 21st September 2001
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“What is Lord Justice Leveson up to? The judge heading the phone-hacking inquiry is currently planning a series of public seminars on the relationship between the press and the public. Is he right to seek evidence about internal rules in such august institutions as the Guardian and the BBC? Or should he confine himself, as some critics are saying, to investigating the misbehaviour of the tabloid press and the police?”
The Guardian, 21st September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A self-styled evangelical archbishop who claimed he could deliver ‘miracle babies’ to infertile women in Britain is to be extradited to his home country of Kenya to face accusations of child abduction.”
The Guardian, 21st September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government has proposed centralising all existing UK consumer protection laws and regulations under a new Consumer Bill of Rights.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
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