“A critic is free to hate a book but this ruling found Lynn Barber had a reckless disregard for the truth.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A judge has been condemned for telling a teacher convicted of child porn offences that she did not criticise him for being attracted to children.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Muslim extremist who posted a call for attacks on MPs who supported the Iraq war on a radical website, along with where to buy a knife, has been jailed for 12 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Payouts to patients or their families hit unprecedented levels according to Medical Defence Union.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A science teacher who attacked a 14-year-old pupil with a dumbbell has been banned from teaching for life.
Peter Harvey, now 51, had been provoked by pupils during a lesson in July 2009 when they called him a ‘psycho’ and ‘bald-headed bastard’. He lost control and hit the teenager about the head with the 3kg weight while shouting ‘die, die, die’.”
The Guardian, 30th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A student who stole 299 rare bird skins from a Hertfordshire museum had been ordered to pay £125,150 under the Proceeds of Crime Act.”
BBC News, 30th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Senior lawyers at royal solicitors Harbottle & Lewis are ‘furious’ at the way they have been blamed by Rupert Murdoch and others in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, The Independent on Sunday has learned. They will meet the Metropolitan Police to explain their position ‘in the next few days’.
The Independent, 31st July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“One of the world’s richest men has been forced to hand over multi-million pound homes to his mistress after the High Court ruled he had lied that his lover was a ‘top dog’ secretary.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Metropolitan Police said it is considering a number of breach of privacy allegations received since January. The new team, to be formed under Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers, will examine matters not covered by the force’s phone-hacking inquiry, Operation Weeting.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“High Court judges have refused to free a man in Afghanistan after the charity Reprieve sought his release under one of the England’s most ancient laws.”
BBC News, 29th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An Ethiopian-born billionaire has won £175,000 in libel damages over allegations he had hunted his daughter down so she could be stoned to death.”
BBC News, 29th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A decision by the home secretary, Theresa May, to impose a control order on a terror suspect who is banned from London has been upheld by the high court.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Chair will not seek to extend her three-year term, after criticism of her handling of the News of the World phone-hacking affair.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jonathan May-Bowles, the comedian who threw a foam pie at media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has been convicted of assault and causing harassment, alarm or distress.”
Daiy Telegraph, 29th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A 52-year-old man has been jailed for 13 years after being convicted of sex assaults on children in West Norfolk between 1975 and 1990.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Eight national newspapers have made public apologies today to Christopher Jefferies for the libellous allegations made against him following the murder of Joanna Yeates. The titles – The Sun, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Record, Daily Mail, Daily Star, The Scotsman and Daily Express – have also agreed to pay him substantial libel damages, thought to total six figures.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two companies have been fined a total of £75,000 after a man was dragged through a 5in (13cm) gap in machinery.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two men from Hull have been jailed for their parts in an operation to smuggle heroin with a street value of £13m in packets of baby powder.”
BBC News, 28th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Meares v Medway Primary Care Trust [2011] EWCA Civ 897 (28 July 2011)
Lait v Evening Standard Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 859 (28 July 2011)
St Helens & Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust v Brownbill & Ors [2011] EWCA Civ 903 (28 July 2011)
Mew & Anor v Tristmire Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 912 (28 July 2011)
Towers v Premier Waste Management Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 923 (28 July 2011)
Gayle v Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust [2011] EWCA Civ 924 (28 July 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Sulaiman v General Medical Council [2011] EWHC 1903 (Admin) (28 July 2011)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Williams v Lawrence & Anor [2011] EWHC 2001 (Ch) (28 July 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
“OPINION: Are you reading this at work? Are you sure you are not breaking copyright law by doing so? If OUT-LAW.COM copied most websites’ terms and conditions you probably would be, if the Court of Appeal is to be believed. Yesterday it said that the users of a clippings service infringed newspaper publishers’ copyrights when they clicked on links to view articles on web pages. But a fairly obscure spat over business information has the potential to derail much of the basis of online publishing.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
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