“Lord Justice Jackson spoke in strong terms last week to the Cambridge Law Faculty on the controversial topic of legal aid and legal costs reforms.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th September 2011
Source: www.http://ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A case that will decide the legality of the police containment tactic of kettling is to be heard at the European court of human rights in Strasbourg later.”
The Guardian, 14th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A UN representative has accused a council of ‘violating international law’ over the clearance of the UK’s largest illegal travellers’ site.”
The Independent, 14th September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A huge cache of previously undiscovered documents and emails which could reveal the true scale of phone hacking at the News of the World have been found by the newspaper’s publisher, the High court heard today.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A teenage girl caught with £800 of crack cocaine and heroin in her bra has been freed from prison 15 months early so she can go to university in time for freshers’ week.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Patients were put at risk by an unacceptable fall in the number of inspections of hospitals and care homes, MPs say.”
BBC News, 14th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ministers have ruled out creating a forced marriage crime, despite pressure from MPs to do so. In an interview for the BBC’s Asian Network, Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone said that it was not on the government’s agenda. The Home Affairs committee has called for an offence to complement court orders to protect potential victims.”
BBC News, 14th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Magistrates were urged to abandon sentencing guidelines when dealing with rioters last month because ‘nothing like this was envisaged’, according to court documents released to the Guardian. The text of two controversial emails circulated to justices’ clerks immediately after August’s disturbances raises questions about judicial independence and the use of blanket guidance irrespective of individual cases. One human rights group described the emails as ‘disturbing’.”
The Guardian, 14th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Parliamentary ombudsman orders department to pay family who were repeatedly refused compensation for their ordeal.”
The Guardian, 14th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned Tesco from re-broadcasting a television advert that appeared to show pigs roaming freely in a field following complaints by viewers.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Yobs are to be punished by their neighbours in new ‘justice panels’ as part of a radical overhaul of out-of-court penalties, the policing minister will say today.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Berkshire man has been jailed for posting abusive messages online about a schoolgirl after she committed suicide. Sean Duffy, 25, of Reading, was handed an 18-week sentence for posts on social networking sites about Worcester teenager Natasha MacBryde.”
BBC News, 13th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“James Murdoch is to face a fresh grilling by MPs investigating the News of the World phone hacking scandal, it was announced today.”
The Independent, 13th September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Rollover contracts for landline and broadband customers are to be banned after the telecoms watchdog accused providers of locking households into long-term deals with little additional benefit.”
The Independent, 13th September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Sheila Henry, the mother of 26-year-old Christian Small who died in the blast at King’s Cross, has been put forward as a lead case in the civil litigation cases against the News of the World.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Nearly a third of crown court hearings in the East of England which do not go ahead as planned are adjourned due to legal teams not being ready on the day of the trial, the BBC can reveal.”
BBC News, 12th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A convicted rapist who attacked a woman in Devon four months after being given early release has been jailed indefinitely.”
BBC News, 12th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Witney Town Council v Beam Construction (Cheltenham) Ltd [2011] EWHC 2332 (TCC) (12 September 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
Nomihold Securities Inc v Mobile Telesystems Finance SA [2011] EWCA Civ 1040; [2011] WLR (D) 278
“Where a freezing order bound a party against whom an arbitral award had been made the position was not directly analogous to that of a ‘judgment debtor’ when the question fell to be determined whether the party owing the sum awarded should be permitted to make a payment out to a third party.”
WLR Daily, 1st September 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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