“Employees have the same rights when a company changes service provider as when work is outsourced in the first place even if the new service is not identical to the old, the Employment Appeals Tribunal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th June 2009
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“A police inspector left unable to work for five months after being trampled by a herd of cattle has received more than £10,000 from the landowner.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2009
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“Civil servant Darryn Walker has been cleared of breaching the Obscene Publications Act with a story he wrote about Girls Aloud.”
BBC News, 29th June 2009
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“A blogger who was charged with obscenity after he wrote an erotic story detailing the kidnap, sexual torture and murder of the pop group Girls Aloud was cleared at court yesterday after prosecutors offered no evidence against him.”
The Independent, 30th June 2009
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One element in the feasibility study is to assess what the demand for library services is on the part of the Bar, students and other members of the Inns, and how it is currently being met. Both Inns also want to consider what services a merged library should offer its users if a merger were to proceed.
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“Fresh allegations that Afghans captured by British soldiers have been mistreated by security forces are so serious they should be the subject of a full high court hearing, government lawyers have admitted.”
The Guardian, 29th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Inexperienced and inadequately trained police officers were pitched into the middle of the ‘highly combustible’ G20 protests in London, according to a highly critical report published today.”
The Times, 29th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A decision whether to pardon the jailed Liverpool football fan Michael Shields is days away, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed. The decision could set a precedent for cases of Britons convicted abroad on contested evidence.”
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The Guardian, 26th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The number of women deliberately harming themselves in prison has almost doubled in five years – despite repeated government promises to improve conditions in women’s jails.”
The Independent, 27th June 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Gordon Brown’s plans to set up an independent body to take charge of parliamentary expenses could have a ‘chilling effect’ on MPs’ freedom of speech, the most senior official in the House of Commons warned today.”
The Guardian, 26th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Dozens of sharia courts in the UK are regularly giving illegal advice on issues including marriage and divorce, a report published today claims.”
The Guardian, 29th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s private prisons are performing worse than those run by the state, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.”
The Independent, 29th June 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Defence, security and intelligence grandees will next week launch a critique of the government’s strategy for dealing with terror, including a demand that ministers should show that Britain has ‘unambiguously’ renounced the use of torture.”
The Guardian, 27th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A 15-year-old boy has been convicted of murdering a two-year-old girl who was left in his care for 90 minutes.”
BBC News, 26th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Debbie Purdy and Michael Wenham, both living with terminal illnesses, put their opposing views ahead of this week’s Lords debate.”
The Independent, 28th June 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The sentence of a serial sex attacker who preyed on women in south-west London for more than two decades is to be reviewed by the Attorney General.”
BBC News, 28th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Senior prosecutors are calling for the laws on race hate crimes to be strengthened to counter the threat posed by the British National party.”
The Guardian, 28th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The report on the controversial death of the anti-racist campaigner Blair Peach should finally be published more than 30 years after he died in a demonstration in west London. The commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, agreed today that it should be made public after an unanimous call to do so by the Metropolitan Police Authority.”
The Guardian, 25th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A parliamentary inquiry into allegations of British collusion in torture is set to investigate whether counter-terrorism chiefs ordered the repeated torture and rendition of a former British resident.”
The Guardian, 25th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will still pursue bank overdraft charges as unfair, even if it loses the current legal appeal in the House of Lords.”
BBC News, 25th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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