“Tony Blair was warned by his government’s chief law officer that an invasion of Iraq would be illegal the day before he privately assured President George Bush he would support US-led military action, documents released today by the Chilcot inquiry reveal.”
The Guardian, 30th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Five activists who caused £180,000 damage to an arms factory were acquitted after they argued they were seeking to prevent Israeli war crimes.”
The Guardian, 30th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Inviting the public to nominate unnecessary laws they would like to see repealed is a move away from ‘the old way of doing things’, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said today.”
The Independent, 1st July 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“More organisations providing immigration and asylum advice could face closure as only 252 out of over 400 applicants were successful in their bids for contracts from the Legal Service Commission.”
The Guardian, 30th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme Court
Noone, R (on the application of) v Governor of HMP Drake Hall & Anor [2010] UKSC 30 (30 June 2010)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust v Fox & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 729 (30 June 2010)
Forson v The Governing Body of Harwich School & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 751 (30 June 2010)
ZK (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 749 (30 June 2010)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Financial Services Authority (FSA) v Anderson & Ors [2010] EWHC 1547 (Ch) (29 June 2010)
Gripple Ltd v Revenue and Customs [2010] EWHC 1609 (Ch) (30 June 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“A Briton who says he was tortured in Pakistan with the complicity of UK security services has won the right to appeal against his terror convictions.”
BBC News, 30th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A dangerous paedophile at the centre of an international child sex abuse ring was jailed indefinitely today to protect young boys.”
The Independent, 30th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke, has given a speech on criminal justice reform at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.”
Ministry of Justice, 30th June 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Iraq inquiry has released details of the legal advice given to Tony Blair prior to the invasion of Iraq after the documents were de-classified.”
BBC News, 30th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The country’s highest court today quashed a landmark ruling that British soldiers serving abroad are protected by human rights laws at all times.”
The Independent, 30th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
D, R. v [2010] EWCA Crim 1485 (29 June 2010)
Budimir & Anor, R. v [2010] EWCA Crim 1486 (29 June 2010)
Harvey, R. v [2010] EWCA Crim 1317 (19 May 2010)
Mortimer, R. v [2010] EWCA Crim 1303 (25 May 2010)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
JN (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 723 (29 June 2010)
Fiddes v Channel Four Television Corporation & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 730 (29 June 2010)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Jiggens & Anor v Low & Anor [2010] EWHC 1566 (Ch) (29 June 2010)
Stainer v Lee & Ors [2010] EWHC 1539 (Ch) (29 June 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Interfact Ltd v Liverpool City Council [2010] EWHC 1604 (Admin) (29 June 2010)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
BSkyB Ltd & Anor. v HP Enterprise Services UK Ltd & Ors (No. 2) [2010] EWHC 862 (TCC) (28 June 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Three men accused of orchestrating a spectacularly ambitious Ponzi scheme from offices in Knightsbridge are unlikely to return much, if any, of £115m owed to investors, the Financial Services Authority said today after securing a high court order enforcing repayment.”
The Guardian, 29th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A gun fanatic who lured a total stranger to a deserted, rural railway station and shot him dead was jailed for a minimum of 30 years yesterday.”
The Guardian, 30th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A rapist who subjected a girl to a six-year ordeal of sex abuse has been jailed for fourteen and a half years.”
BBC News, 29th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, today won a high court order evicting protesters who have turned Parliament Square into a makeshift encampment.”
The Guardian, 29th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An appeal brought by three former Labour MPs and a Tory peer facing trial over allegations that they fiddled their expenses was not an attempt to ‘take them above the law’, three of the country’s top judges heard today.”
The Independent, 29th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A woman who made her neighbours’ lives hell by having noisy sex has been spared jail for a second time.”
BBC News, 29th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“David Cameron and the foreign secretary, William Hague, are understood to have agreed the terms of a judge-led inquiry into claims that British security services were complicit in torture of terrorism suspects.”
The Guardian, 29th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Supreme Court rules today on a Government challenge to a landmark ruling that British soldiers serving abroad are protected by human rights laws.”
The Independent, 30th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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