16 hours a day on curfew – Ministry of Justice
“Tougher community sentences will see offenders forced to spend longer in their homes – up to 16 hours each day for a whole year, Minister for Prisons and Probation Crispin Blunt confirmed today.”
Ministry of Justice, 8th August 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Company director to face manslaughter charge for death of Meg Burgess – Crown Prosecution Service
“The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has decided that George Collier should be charged with gross negligence manslaughter in relation to the death of Meg Burgess on 26 July 2008 in Prestatyn, Wales.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 5th August 2011
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
NHS hospitals face DNA patent law suits – Daily Telegraph
“NHS hospitals risk being taken to court and sued for millions of pounds in the future for carrying out genetic tests based on techniques patented by private companies, it was warned yesterday (Friday).”
Daily Telegraph, 5th August 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Planning law review: questions and answers – Daily Telegraph
“The Coalition is proposing radical changes to the planning laws that critics fear will make it easier for large scale developments to be pushed through.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th August 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Navy commander jailed for six months for allowance fraud – The Guardian
“Anthony Gray also ordered to pay back £53,000 he claimed to send children to boarding school after spilt from wife.”
The Guardian, 5th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Airlines’ cheap ticket offers to be investigated – The Guardian
“The European commission has launched an inquiry into airlines’ controversial ‘add-on’ charges that allow them to offer low prices bearing little resemblance to what ticket buyers end up having to pay.”
The Guardian, 8th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Meg Burgess Prestatyn wall death manslaughter charge – BBC News
“A company director faces a manslaughter charge after a three-year-old girl died when a wall collapsed on a footpath in Denbighshire.”
BBC News, 5th August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Detective jailed for affair with alleged rape victim – BBC News
“A Lancashire detective who investigated sex crimes has been jailed for having an affair with an alleged rape victim.”
BBC News, 5th August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
New Home Office foreign criminals scandal – Daily Telegraph
“The Home Office was plunged into crisis last night after it wrongly allowed violent foreign prisoners to be freed into the community.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th August 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Evicted gipsies launch human rights claim – Daily Telegraph
“A gipsy family accused of making life a misery is using legal aid to fund a human rights challenge in the European courts for being evicted – from a travellers’ camp.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th August 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Cracking down on youth offenders will mean they commit more crimes to pay the fines, claim probation officers – The Observer
“Prison numbers and crime rates will rise as a result of government attempts to curb youth crime, according to Napo, the union representing Britain’s probation workers.Napo claims late amendments to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and the Punishment of Offenders bill, introduced in response to coalition concerns that it was seen to be going ‘soft on crime’, will backfire. The bill proposes a 10-fold increase in the fine for an individual who breaches a youth rehabilitation order, from the current £250 to £2,500.”
The Observer, 7th August 2011
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/
NoW publisher sued for £100,000 over alleged breach of anonymity agreement – The Guardian
“News Group Newspapers, former publisher of the defunct News of the World, is being sued for £100,000 by a prison warden’s brother who claims that a senior executive at the newspaper confirmed to police he was the source of leaked stories about the Soham killer Ian Huntley.”
The Guardian, 5th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Company director to face manslaughter charge for death of Megan Burgess – Crown Prosecution Service
“The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has decided that George Collier should be charged with gross negligence manslaughter in relation to the death of Megan Burgess on 26 July 2008 in Prestatyn, Wales.”
Crown Prosecution Service,
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
Ex-footballer jailed for rape – The Independent
“The brother of Premier League footballer Titus Bramble has been jailed for four and a half years after being convicted of rape.”
The Independent, 5th August 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Superinjunctions, gagging orders and injunctions: the full list – The Guardian
“Guardian research shows newspapers are quick to drop public interest arguments for stories about celebrities. Get the full list of gagging orders, superinjunctions and injunctions here – and download it for yourself.”
The Guardian, 5th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Command Papers – official-documents.gov.uk
Post Legislative Assessment of the National Lottery Act 2006, Cm 8153 (PDF)
Source: www.official-documents.gov.uk
Legal aid cuts will bring more DIY cases into courts – which will grind to a halt – The Guardian
“Cuts on this scale demand co-ordinated response in law education, guidance and resources, or the system won’t work.”
The Guardian, 5th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Swotbooks.com Ltd v Royal Bank of Scotland Plc [2011] EWHC 2025 (QB) (29 July 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
Christopher Jefferies case delivers wake-up call to tabloids – The Guardian
“How bad does press coverage at the time of an individual’s arrest have to get for it to be regarded as a contempt of court? This interesting question was at the heart of the recent case concerning coverage of my client Christopher Jefferies’s arrest by police investigating the murder of the landscape architect Joanna Yeates. The contempt action was brought by the attorney general under section 2(2) of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, which applies to any publication that creates a risk that the course of justice will be seriously impeded or prejudiced, whether or not they intended to do so.”
The Guardian, 4th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
