Three former MPs and a peer are set to stand trial over expenses fraud allegations after a judge ruled they could not claim parliamentary privilege to stop prosecution.”
BBC News, 11th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former senior NHS manager who doctored invoices totalling more than £200,000 to pay for the running of her stud farm business was today [10th June] jailed for two years and nine months.”
The Independent, 10th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Denzil Lush, Senior Judge said the Government had failed to anticipate the volume of work that would ‘inundate’ the tribunal that rules on the financial affairs and medical treatment of the elderly and mentally ill, or the ‘burden’ it would place on staff.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th June 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Court of Protection today published its first report. It was set up in October 2007 and the report covers the 27 months to the end of 2009.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 10th June 2010
Source: www.judiciary.co.uk
“A controversial decision that a high-profile libel trial must go ahead without a jury is to be challenged in the Court of Appeal today [10th June].”
The Times, 10th June 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An Anglican vicar deliberately breached Britain’s immigration laws by conducting hundreds of sham marriages between Africans and Europeans, a court heard yesterday.”
The Independent, 11th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A ‘secret’ judicial inquiry is to be held into the death of Azelle Rodney, an unarmed 24-year-old black Londoner who was shot by a Metropolitan police marksman five years ago, the new justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, has announced.”
The Guardian, 10th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three people, including 13-year-old twins, are to be paid compensation by police after they were stopped and searched unlawfully at a climate camp demonstration.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th June 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Bloody Sunday inquiry sat between April 1998 and January 2005. Much of the evidence was new, some contradictory. Here are some of the most significant disclosures.”
The Guardian, 11th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The long-awaited report into the Bloody Sunday massacre will conclude that a number of the fatal shootings of civilians by British soldiers were unlawful killings.”
The Guardian, 10th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal
“Any right there might be to withdraw licence to a visitor to remain in one’s house and to use reasonable force to eject her therefrom could not be extended to one’s motor vehicle.”
The Times, 10th June 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Divison)
Dhorajiwala, R v [2010] EWCA Crim 1237 (09 June 2010)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Morge, R (on the application of) v Hampshire County Council [2010] EWCA Civ 608 (10 June 2010)
Beechwood Birmingham Ltd v Hoyer Group UK Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 647 (10 June 2010)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Baxter & Ors v McCann [2010] EWHC 1330 (QB) (10 June 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Thousands of people across the UK might have been stopped and searched illegally, figures released by the Home Office suggest.”
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BBC News, 10th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A young professional poker player lost £156,000 at the High Court today when a judge ruled he must pay a rabbi who placed spread bets for him on the Dow Jones index.”
The Independent, 10th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“People convicted of knife-carrying offences are now less likely to go to jail, Ministry of Justice figures show.”
BBC News, 10th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Landlords and letting agents will not be subject to greater regulation because this would introduce too much additional red tape, the government said today.”
The Guardian, 10th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Cherie Blair will not be disciplined after she was cleared over comments she made while sparing a violent offender jail.”
The Independent, 10th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The coalition government is reviewing key reforms to legal complaints handling and the introduction of alternative business structures, as part of a wider review of regulatory measures inherited from the previous administration.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th June 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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