“A device that uses high-frequency sound to disperse teenage gangs is illegal under human rights law and is ‘degrading and discriminatory’ to youngsters, a report this week claims.”
The Guardian, 20th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A judge has said mental health doctors in Nottinghamshire should ‘examine their consciences’ after a paranoid schizophrenic stabbed his grandfather.”
Full story
BBC News, 18th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Three companies were facing potentially unlimited fines today after they were found guilty of health and safety breaches in connection with the explosion at the Buncefield oil depot.”
Full story
The Independent, 18th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The TUC has condemned new proposals from the powerful business lobby group CBI to make it harder for workers to strike as ‘a charter for exploitation at work’.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Kent mother of twins who were ill with E. coli in an outbreak in Surrey last year is suing the petting farm where her children became infected.”
BBC News, 18th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman’s right to claim for damages after doctors failed to diagnose her breast cancer while she was in prison in Kent has been quashed.”
BBC News, 18th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for five years after his 15-year-old stepson accidentally shot himself in the head while posing for photos with a gun.”
BBC News, 18th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Royal Navy wren who came to Britain as an asylum seeker has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for smuggling £2 million worth of cocaine into the UK on board a warship.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th June 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for using an elaborate trick to steal more than £12,000 in cash from a businessman after he withdrew the money from a bank.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th June 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Daniel Ubani, the German GP who accidentally killed one of his patients with a lethal injection of painkillers while working as a locum in the UK, was struck off the medical register today.”
The Guardian, 18th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“TAV Engineering convicted of health and safety breach in connection with Buncefield oil depot blast in 2005.”
The Guardian, 18th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government Equality Office (GEO) has withdrawn the timetable that detailed which parts of the recently passed Equality Act would come into force when. Some elements were due to come into force in October.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th June 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“A firm that ‘gratuitously’ mentioned a solicitor’s previous discrimination claim against it when providing an employment reference to another firm has lost an appeal in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 17th June 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A woman lawyer has won her appeal against an employment tribunal ruling that disability discrimination did not lie behind a major law firm’s decision to withdraw a job offer.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 17th June 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
QFS Scaffolding Ltd. v Sable & Anor [2010] EWCA Civ 682 (17 June 2010)
Keefe v The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 683 (17 June 2010)
Seadrill Management Services Ltd & Anor v OAO Gazprom [2010] EWCA Civ 691 (17 June 2010)
Bradley Fold Travel Ltd & Anor v Secretary of State for Transport [2010] EWCA Civ 695 (18 June 2010)
Ministry of Justice v Carter [2010] EWCA Civ 694 (18 June 2010)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Callum v R [2010] EWCA Crim 1325 (16 June 2010)
Hussain & Ors v R. [2010] EWCA Crim 1327 (16 June 2010)
Henderson v R. [2010] EWCA Crim 1269 (17 June 2010)
Percival & Anor, R v [2010] EWCA Crim 1326 (18 June 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Hossack v Legal Services Commission [2010] EWHC 1457 (Admin) (17 June 2010)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Emeraldian Ltd Partnership v Wellmix Shipping Ltd & Anor [2010] EWHC 1411 (Comm) (17 June 2010)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Bristow v Barts and the London NHS Trust [2010] EWHC B13 (QB) (17 June 2010)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Rok Building Ltd v Bestwood Carpentry Ltd [2010] EWHC 1409 (TCC) (17 June 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“A driver who caused the death of two people after falling asleep at the wheel of her car has been spared jail.”
BBC News, 17th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A book reviewer’s slight of an author was not serious enough to form the basis of a libel case, the High Court has ruled. A threshold of seriousness must be crossed and that bar must be set high to discourage frivolous claims, the Court said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th June 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“Plans for the shake-up of financial services regulation announced by UK Chancellor George Osborne last night raise more questions than answers, according to banking and financial legal experts.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th June 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“Costa Coffee was entitled to make a claim that Starbucks drinkers preferred its coffee based on the results of a survey it carried out, regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th June 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
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