“MPs and peers must have a greater role in holding MI5, MI6, and GCHQ to account, the parliamentary intelligence and security committee (ISC) says in its latest annual report.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Options for dealing with squatters – impact assessment.”
Ministry of Justice, 13th July 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The government’s own impact assessment of plans to criminalise squatting has acknowledged that it could boost homelessness and rough sleeping, and target those who are already suffering from mental health and addiction problems.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Victims of sexual abuse are in danger of being cross-examined in court by their tormentors unless the government makes legal aid available in such cases, according to a report by the Commons’ justice select committee.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who drove to Italy with his wife despite claiming he was disabled has been jailed for nine months.”
BBC News, 13th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A television producer who searched the internet for a former classmate 40,000 times, paid for background searches on the woman’s husband and posed as a parent at her daughter’s nursery is facing jail.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In recent years the British courts have gained an international reputation for awarding extremely generous settlements to the wives of wealthy men embroiled in high profile divorce cases.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Kazakh businessman, exiled in Britain and facing claims that he has embezzled $4bn (£2.4bn), has won his battle to gain asylum in the UK.”
The Guardian, 12th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, has asked retired High Court judge Sir Christopher Rose to conduct the independent inquiry into issues arising out of the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station protest cases.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 13th July 2011
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“A leading former judge has been appointed to lead an expanded inquiry into claims that prosecutors suppressed secret surveillance tapes recorded by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy.Sir Christopher Rose, a retired court of appeal judge noted for his fierce independence, will head the inquiry which was set up by the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The chief executive of a water park society has been jailed after admitting fraud totalling more than £660,000.”
BBC News, 13th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Rupert Murdoch’s media group News Corporation bowed to pressure from the public and parliament on Wednesday and withdrew its bid to take full control of pay-TV company BSkyB.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The independent inquiry into phone hacking will have the power to summon newspaper proprietors, journalists, police and politicians to give evidence under oath and in public, Prime Minister David Cameron said today.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Damian Green, the immigration minister, said he was ‘frustrated’ that domestic courts were taking a tougher line on Europe’s human rights laws than the European Court itself. The row centres on the growing instances when convicted criminals have successfully used the right to family life to avoid deportation. It emerged that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) allows for a removal unless there is an ‘insurmountable obstacle’ preventing the family from leaving too.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Defence Secretary Liam Fox apologised today to the families of the pilots in the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash after a new report cleared them of an earlier finding of negligence. The fresh review concluded that Flight Lieutenants Jonathan Tapper and Richard Cook should not have been blamed for the accident in 1994.”
The Independent, 13th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The branch manager of a credit union has been jailed after he admitted stealing more than £100,000 from customers’ accounts.”
BBC News, 11th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A catering firm whose employee was badly burned when she fell into a pot of curry was not in breach of health and safety laws, inspectors have said.”
BBC News, 12th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Supreme Court
Al Rawi & Ors v The Security Service & Ors [2011] UKSC 34 (13 July 2011)
Home Office v Tariq [2011] UKSC 35 (13 July 2011)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
JS v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2011] EWCA Civ 806 (13 July 2011)
Shovelar & Ors v Lane & Ors [2011] EWCA Civ 802 (12 July 2011)
Jones & Anor v Ruth & Anor [2011] EWCA Civ 804 (12 July 2011)
Pannone LLP v Aardvark Digital Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 803 (12 July 2011)
Brighton and Hove City Council v PM & Ors [2011] EWCA Civ 795 (12 July 2011)
The Leeds College of Music (Dissolution) Order 2011
The Leeds College of Art (Transfer to the Higher Education Sector) Order 2011
The Joseph Priestley College, Leeds (Dissolution) Order 2011
The Non-Domestic Rating (Small Business Rate Relief) (England) (Amendment) Order 2011
The Cleaner Road Transport Vehicles Regulations 2011
The North Somerset Levels Internal Drainage Board Order 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
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