Cornwall man jailed for shooting sister’s donkey dead – BBC News
“A man from Cornwall has been jailed for shooting his sister’s donkey dead after an argument.”
BBC News, 23rd March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Targets for judicial diversity ‘wrong approach’ – Law Society’s Gazette
“Setting targets for increasing the number of female judges would be the ‘wrong approach’ to boosting diversity, the minister responsible for legislation and law reform told the House of Lords last week.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th March 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
The changing face of justice – The Guardian
“The visual vocabulary of courts – rooted in Babylonian, Egyptian, Classical, and Renaissance iconography – provides a transnational symbol of government, and courts have become obligatory facets of good governance. Consider the image of two women: one with scales, sword and blindfold; the other, Prudence, regarding herself in a mirror. Justice was once regularly shown with Prudence as well as Fortitude and Temperance, the four cardinal virtues. We know this imagery of justice because we have been taught it. Rulers regularly link themselves to the virtue Justice as they seek legitimacy for the laws that they make and enforce.”
The Guardian, 24th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related link: Representing justice
Wife loses bid for bigger payout from estranged husband – Daily Telegraph
“The estranged wife of a former banker who argued that £4.8 million was not enough to live on yesterday lost a High Court bid for a larger slice of his wealth.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd March 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Cow manure fetish man is jailed by Cornwall court – BBC News
“A man with a fetish for cow manure has been jailed for two years.”
BBC News, 23rd March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Shot Pc David Rathband sues force over Raoul Moat attack – The Independent
“Shot Pc David Rathband said today he was suing his own force because he was left ‘a sitting duck’ when gunman Raoul Moat declared war on police.”
The Independent, 23rd March 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Master of the rolls to judges: keep your judgments simple – The Guardian
“Judges should avoid making judgments that are ‘readable by few, comprehendible by fewer still’, said Lord Neuberger in a speech on open justice last week. With a nod to Gilbert and Sullivan’s accessible opera he offered Lord Atkin’s decision in Donoghue v Stevenson as ‘a very model of a modern major judgment’. The case, decided by the House of Lords in 1932, features a decomposed snail in a bottle of ginger beer and is known to every lawyer in the land: it sets out, in clear terms, the scope of the law of negligence.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Capital Gains Tax (Annual Exempt Amount) Order 2011
The Value Added Tax (Consideration for Fuel Provided for Private Use) Order 2011
The Approved Mileage Allowance Payments (Rates) Regulations 2011
The Value Added Tax (Increase of Registration Limits) Order 2011
The Car Fuel Benefit Order 2011
The Landfill Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Foreign prisoners win £1 over UK false imprisonment – BBC News
“The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the Home Office unlawfully imprisoned two foreign national prisoners in a ‘serious abuse of power’.”
BBC News, 23rd March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
David Chaytor loses appeal to reduce jail sentence for expenses fraud – The Guardian
“Former Labour MP David Chaytor has lost an appeal to reduce his prison sentence for fiddling parliamentary expenses as senior judges ruled he had inflicted ‘serious damage’ to our ‘priceless democratic system’ and could have received an even longer jail term.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
7/7 inquests: Date announced for coroner’s verdicts – BBC News
“The inquest verdicts on the 7/7 London bombings are due to be announced on Friday 6 May by the coroner, Lady Justice Hallett.”
BBC News, 23rd March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 – legislation.gov.uk
Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 published
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The National Assembly for Wales (Letters Patent) Order 2011
The Tunisia (Asset-Freezing) Regulations 2011
The Egypt (Asset-Freezing) Regulations 2011
The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order 2011
The Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) (Amendment) Scheme 2011
The Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Noye, R. v [2011] EWCA Crim 650 (22 March 2011)
Whiston- Dew & Anor, R. v [2011] EWCA Crim 647 (22 March 2011)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
DS (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 305 (22 March 2011)
Revenue and Customs v Chamberlin [2011] EWCA Civ 271 (22 March 2011)
MS (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 306 (22 March 2011)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Goldsmith& Anor v BCD [2011] EWHC 674 (QB) (22 March 2011)
Clyde & Co LLP & Anor v Winkelhof [2011] EWHC 668 (QB) (22 March 2011)
Abramova v Oxford Institute of Legal Practice [2011] EWHC 613 (QB) (18 March 2011)
Coys of Kensington Automobiles Ltd v Pugliese [2011] EWHC 655 (QB) (22 March 2011)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Kojima v HSBC Bank Plc [2011] EWHC 611 (Ch) (22 March 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Thaker v Solicitors Regulation Authority [2011] EWHC 660 (Admin) (22 March 2011)
Mazurkiewicz v Rzeszow Circuit Court, Poland [2011] EWHC 659 (Admin) (22 March 2011)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Millharbour Management Ltd & Ors v Weston Homes Ltd & Anor [2011] EWHC 661 (TCC) (22 March 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
Major reforms to Equality and Human Rights Commission – Home Office
“Consultation launches to make the organisation a stronger, focused and more efficient, Theresa May said today.”
Home Office, 21st March 2011
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Police ‘illegally’ kettled peaceful G20 protesters for four hours, court hears – The Guardian
“Police officers illegally kettled peaceful climate activists at the G20 protests in 2009 to stop their gathering being ‘hijacked’ by violent protesters from another demonstration, the high court has heard.”
The Guardian, 22nd March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Government outlines overhaul of student visas – UK Border Agency
“Tougher entrance criteria, limits on work entitlements and the closure of the post-study work route are among the changes to the student visa system announced today by Home Secretary Theresa May.”
Full story
UK Border Agency, 22nd March 2011
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
Health Bill amounts to ‘abolition’ of NHS, academic warns – Daily Telegraph
“Controversial Government reforms will spell the end of the NHS as it stands, academics warn, as the Health Secretary was forced to reassure MPs that hospitals and doctors would not face accusations of running cartels.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd March 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
