“Controversial proposals that would give Lord Mandelson unprecedented powers to amend copyright laws will be jettisoned next week when the Government suffers the first large defeat of its flagship media plans.”
The Times, 25th February 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Newspapers and broadcasters run the risk of increased damages in privacy actions if they fail to tell people they will be exposing them, MPs say today.”
The Times, 24th February 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Mercy killers will face the full rigours of the criminal law under guidelines to be announced today by the Director of Public Prosecutions.”
The Times, 25th February 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The government is planning to close a loophole in the law that makes it legal to hack into someone else’s voicemail messages if they have already been listened to by the owner.”
The Guardian, 25th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK Sikh Federation says it might take legal action over the Office for National Statistics’ 2011 census form.”
BBC News, 25th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“It is unseen, ignored and unloved. The cinderella branch of the justice system deals with more cases than any other — yet it operates largely in the shadows. This is the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Service, handling everything from parking appeals to school admissions, employment disputes to immigration and asylum cases.”
The Times, 25th February 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The lack of diversity among judges is affecting the experience of people who use the courts and limiting judicial perspectives on critical legal issues, according to a report published today (24 February).”
The Guardian, 24th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Tourism bosses have been hit with a bill of £750,000 because the new Museum of Liverpool partially blocks the view from an iconic waterfront building.”
BBC News, 24th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“At the Court of Appeal today the Attorney General, Baroness Patricia Scotland QC, successfully appealed the sentence of a man who picked up a iron which he had heated and repeatedly held to his wife’s face, leaving it on her skin for two to three seconds. He then further attacked her.”
Attorney General’s Office, 24th February 2010
Soure: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“A pleasure boat crewman has been jailed for 15 months after he admitted causing the death of a passenger.”
BBC News, 24th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A doctor who falsified a prescription for a cocaine-addicted escort girl has been suspended for six months by the General Medical Council (GMC).”
BBC News, 24th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who ‘branded’ his wife’s face with an iron has had his sentenced doubled after the Attorney General personally intervened.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Home Office ministers are to opt out of a European directive which lays down minimum standards for the treatment of asylum claims because it would mean abandoning a fast-track process that leads to hundreds of asylum seekers being detained every year.”
The Guardian, 24th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Women, gays, ethnic minority and disabled applicants for jobs as judges should receive preferential treatment over white men in an attempt to make the judiciary reflect modern Britain, an official report recommended today.”
The Times, 24th February 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A former member of a far-right group has been jailed for three years for making explosives in his home, including a pipe bomb.”
BBC News, 23rd February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A prominent Rotarian from Somerset has been sent to prison for eight years after admitting trying to smother his ex-model wife with a pillow.”
BBC News, 23rd February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A doctor who falsified a prescription for a cocaine-addicted escort girl has been found guilty of serious misconduct by the General Medical Council (GMC).”
BBC News, 23rd February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Richard Buxton (Solicitors) v Mills-Owens & Anor [2010] EWCA Civ 122 (23 February 2010)
High Court (Patents Court)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Moore v Hotelplan Ltd (t/a Inghams Travel) & Anor [2010] EWHC 276 (QB) (22 February 2010)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Forest Heath District Council v ISG Jackson Ltd [2010] EWHC 322 (TCC) (22 February 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
Gibson and others v Sheffield City Council [2010] EWCA Civ 63; [2010] WLR (D) 47
“In an equal pay claim, it was open to an employer to avoid the need for objective justification of a pay disparity if he could show that, even if the pay practice had an adverse impact on women, that practice was not tainted by sex discrimination under s 1(3) of the Equal Pay Act 1970, so that the obligation to justify the disparity objectively did not arise. However, the application of that proposition was limited and merely because there was an explanation for the difference in pay which was not directly discriminatory did not necessarily mean that the pay practice was not tainted by sex.”
WLR Daily, 23rd February 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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