“Lawyers face having to return more than £25 million paid to them by mistake because of mismanagement in the running of the legal aid scheme.”
The Times, 27th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A new Crime and Security Bill aims to protect our communities by making our streets safer and giving more help to victims of crime.”
Home Office, 20th November 2009
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Supreme Court
Office of Fair Trading (OFT) v Abbey National plc & Ors [2009] UKSC 6 (25 November 2009)
BA (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department & Ors [2009] UKSC 7 (26 November 2009)
A, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Croydon [2009] UKSC 8 (26 November 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Home office figures show that only tiny proportion of anti-terror searches lead to arrests.”
The Guardian, 26th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A London theatre is being investigated after it allegedly promoted its production of the Shawshank Redemption by quoting comments about the hit film.”
BBC News, 26th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two men have started appeals against the UK’s first convictions for inciting racial hatred via a foreign website.”
BBC News, 26th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Cornwall v R. [2009] EWCA Crim 2458 (26 November 2009)
High Court (Chancery Division)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Threlfall v Hull City Council [2009] EWHC 3042 (QB) (26 November 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2009
The Ministry of Defence Police Appeals Tribunals Regulations 2009
The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 2009
The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2009
The Seed Potatoes (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The Local Authorities (Alternative Arrangements) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The Specified Animal Pathogens (Amendment) Order 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“Where a person, in reliance, inter alia, upon art 3(2) of the Citizen Directive, sought to claim a right of entry and residence as a dependant of a Union citizen, there was no requirement to ask whether the claimed dependence arose from a need for the support of such a citizen.”
WLR daily, 26th November 2009
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.
“Where an asylum seeker’s claim to be under the age of 18 (and so entitled to accommodation under s 20(1) of the Children Act 1989) was disputed by the local authority who would have to provide the accommodation, the question of age was an objective fact to be ultimately determined, in the event of challenge, by the court.”
WLR Daily, 24th November 2009
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.
“A woman has been jailed for killing a man she met on the day she appeared in court for punching a police officer who tried to stop her running on to the M6.”
BBC news, 26th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The way hospitals are regulated should be urgently reformed after a report found a catalogue of failings at two hospitals in Essex, a charity has said.”
BBC News, 27th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An investment consultant jailed for groping a ‘comatose’ woman after a cocktail party has had his prison sentence overturned.”
The Times, 27rh November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“More than 27,000 children have been locked up before being convicted of any crime over the last five years. They include 1,004 under-18s held on remand for more than six months and 83 detained for more than one year.”
The Independent, 27th November 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Defendants are being denied a fair trial because police pressure deters them from being represented by a lawyer after their arrest, a survey reveals today.”
The Independent, 27th November 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Lord West of Spithead, the Security minister, has been stopped and searched under anti-terrorism powers, which were used a record number of times last year.”
The Times, 27th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Hopes of a reprieve for Gary McKinnon, the British computer hacker facing extradition to the US, were dashed last night after the Government said that it was powerless to intervene.”
The Times, 27th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Three men have been jailed for their part in the murder of a 26-year-old man who was tortured with scissors in the mistaken belief he was a paedophile.”
BBC News, 26th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A banker who stole £315,000 from the trust fund of his five-year-old niece after she lost her limbs to meningitis has been sentenced to four years in prison.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th November 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A wealthy aristocrat who stole £1.6m from a family charity intended to aid Bosnian orphans was given a two-year suspended sentence today.”
The Guardian, 26th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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