“A senior UK law officer has urged the home secretary to ensure proper monitoring of extradition requests for criminal suspects between member states in Europe, after the failure to bring a German doctor who accidentally killed a patient on his first UK shift to face justice in Britain.”
Full story
The Guardian, 7th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Spending cuts could mean prisoners are not properly rehabilitated and fuel further overcrowding, a network of watchdog bodies warns today.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th February 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Solar energy firms are threatening to take legal action against the government after ministers said they could stop large-scale commercial ‘solar farms’ from hoovering up a green electricity subsidy.”
The Guardian, 7th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three leading pathologists have accused the Metropolitan Police of attempting to discredit them as expert witnesses in so-called Shaken Baby court cases.”
BBC News, 8th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Offenders could be stripped of prized possessions such as iPods under proposals to give police better powers to tackle anti-social behaviour, the Home Office said today.”
The Independent, 7th February 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government suffered a narrow defeat in the House of Lords on Monday night when rebel Tories joined forces with Labour peers to make the planned referendum on electoral reform non-binding if turnout falls below 40%.”
The Guardian, 7th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The owner of a skateboarding dog has been warned he faces being issued with an Asbo if his pet carries on riding without a leash.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former sports editor was jailed today after defrauding a national newspaper of more than £370,000.”
The Independent, 7th February 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“As the Meltwater case on news aggregation rumbles on, Alex Wade takes a look at the legally fraught, and commercially sensitive, world of spiders, bots and scrapers.”
The Guardian, 7th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Sir Hugh Orde, president of Association of Chief Police Officers, says benefits of judicial oversight of future operations would ‘far outweigh additional administrative burden’.”
The Guardian, 7th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Shaw & Ors v R. [2011] EWCA Crim 98 (04 February 2011)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Thornton v Telegraph Media Group Ltd [2011] EWHC 159 (QB) (04 February 2011)
Everton Football Club Company Ltd v Sail Group Ltd & Anor [2011] EWHC 126 (QB) (04 February 2011)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Dias v London Borough of Havering [2011] EWHC 172 (Ch) (04 February 2011)
Office of Fair Trading v Purely Creative Ltd & Ors [2011] EWHC 106 (Ch) (02 February 2011)
Curtis & Ors v Pulbrook & Ors [2011] EWHC 167 (Ch) (04 February 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2011
The School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions (Amendment) Order 2011
The Care Standards Act 2000 (Notification) (Wales) Regulations 2011
The Independent Health Care (Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2011
The Occupational Pension Schemes (Levy Ceiling – Earnings Percentage Increase) Order 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“Analysis of responses to the Joint Advocacy Group consultation paper on proposals for a quality assurance scheme for criminal advocates, is now available to view and download.”
Bar Standards Board, 4th February 2011
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
Glaves v Crown Prosecution Service [2011] EWCA Civ 69; [2011] WLR (D) 37
“On an application by a defendant for a certificate of inadequacy in relation to a confiscation order under section 83 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 an investigation of the facts was required so that it was not appropriate to determine as a preliminary issue whether the application was bound to fail.”
WLR Daily, 4th February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Solicitors Regulation Authority v Davis and another [2011] WLR (D) 36
“Where a solicitor admitted disciplinary charges, and therefore anticipated sanctions upon him, he should give notice in advance of the hearing to the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal that he intended to contend either that no order for costs should be made against him, in exercise of the tribunal’s power under section 47(2) of the Solicitors Act 1974, or that any order for costs should be limited by reason of his lack of means.”
WLR Daily, 4th February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Last month (24 January) The Lawyer highlighted an accelerating trend that may well turn out to be one of the defining developments in this year of full Legal Services Act (LSA) implementation. An increasing number of firms are looking at introducing corporate vehicles into their partnerships.”
The Lawyer, 7th February 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“A Kent MP is calling for sentencing guidelines to be reviewed after a mother was jailed for trying to stop her daughter going out to buy heroin.”
BBC News, 4th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A steward at Windsor Castle was given a suspended prison sentence today for grooming and abusing a young boy 25 years ago.”
The Independent, 4th February 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“New search powers being given to schools over mobile phones are more suitable for terror inquiries, human rights pressure group Liberty says.”
BBC News, 4th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A widow who found that the tributes she left on her husband’s grave were being moved took the case to the church court on the grounds that the dead man’s human rights were being breached.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th February 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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