“Recorder Shaun Smith said the public was right to think the legal system was ‘mad’ or ‘soft’ after he was forced to allow the intruder to walk free.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Three soldiers were today jailed for their part in a plot to possess explosives from a British Army barracks to sell on to associates connected to the criminal underworld.”
The Independent, 27th October 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said new Government-funded Sexual Assault Referral Centres across the country will improve the support given to victims.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former soldier in the Latvian army who killed his girlfriend by stabbing her through the heart will spend at least 18 years in prison.”
BBC News, 27th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teacher who admitted possessing and making indecent images of children has been given a suspended sentence.”
BBC News, 27th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A pensioner who revamped her cottage by painting it blue has been threatened with legal action unless she returns it to its original shade of yellow.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th Octiber 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A new umbrella organisation formed to represent Britain’s entire music industry will today promise to deliver a five-year plan to plot a safer course for a sector that has been battered in the past decade.”
The Guardian, 27th October 2008
Source; www.guardian.co.uk
“The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said that a single database of phone and internet usage records would undermine the ‘British way of life’. The privacy watchdog has said that it will scrutinise Government plans for storing that information.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th October 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Temporary workers will receive many of the same protections as permanent staff because of the European Parliament’s approval of a new European Union Directive. EU institutions have battled for six years over the issue.”
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd October 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“An east London market trader is to launch an appeal against a conviction for breaking metric laws.”
BBC News, 27th october 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The latest phase of the Government’s benefit reforms come into force today but faced immediate criticism, with claims they could lead to fewer poor children receiving child maintenance.”
The Independent, 27th October 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A tribunal has admitted making inappropriate remarks about an academic at Oxford University, issuing a public apology and agreeing to pay costs and damages after he accused it of libel in what is believed to be the first instance of its kind.”
The Guardian, 27th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Last week, a website called Paperticket became the latest in a list of sites to be shut down after complaints from consumers who had paid for tickets for gigs such as The Killers and Barry Manilow but had not received them.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, is to signal a more punitive approach to prisons today by attacking the ‘criminal justice lobby’ for putting the needs of offenders before those of victims.”
The Guardian, 27th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Civil rights campaigners say images must not be added to databases.”
The Guardian, 27th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Any reform of the law on assisting suicide is a matter for Parliament, not prosecutors, the Director of Public Prosecutions has told The Times.”
The Times, 27th October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Thousands of single mothers awaiting maintenance payments from absent fathers may have to hold on until 2015 before the successor to the Child Support Agency processes their cases.”
The Times, 27th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A High Court legal fight has begun between world champ boxer Joe Calzaghe and his former manager Frank Warren.”
BBC News, 24th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Home Secretary has backed the extradition of a UFO-obsessed computer hacker, despite hearing expert argument that it would be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The Observer, 26th October 2008
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk
“Son of designer Westwood joins bid to overturn ban that activists say stifles creative freedom.”
The Observer, 26th October 2008
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk
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