“The recent controversy over bonuses paid to civil servants employed by the Ministry of Defence highlights the public interest in salaries and bonuses of public sector officials.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th December 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Family lawyers have attacked government plans to extend the media’s right to report family cases, warning that they will clog the courts with preliminary hearings and lead to miscarriages of justice.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th December 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“MPs are lobbying prime minister Gordon Brown to exclude solicitors from any government-run scheme to compensate workers for asbestos-related pleural plaques.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th December 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Office for Legal Complaints has announced further moves to set up a new ombudsman scheme that will investigate and resolve complaints by consumers of legal services.”
Ministry of Justice, 9th December 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Regina v Horncastle and Another; Regina v Marquis and Another
Supreme Court
“A defendant’s right to a fair trial guaranteed by article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights would not be violated where his conviction was based solely or to a decisive extent on the statement of an absent witness, provided that the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 were observed.”
The Times, 10th December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A former BBC TV presenter who was jailed for two years for hitting a teenager with a pole has been told he cannot appeal against his sentence.”
BBC News, 9th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“On 10 December 2009 we published our report on Conspiracy and Attempts. This report makes recommendations to reform the law governing the criminal liability of those who agree, or attempt, to commit offences.”
Law Commission, 10th December 2009
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
“Senior lawyers say the law in England and Wales should be changed to make it easier to prove criminal conspiracy. The Law Commission says criminals can currently escape prosecution for conspiracy by claiming they did not know what they were doing was illegal.”
BBC News, 10th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The use of intercept evidence in criminal trials is not yet ‘legally or practically viable’, the independent reviewer of terror laws has said.”
BBC News, 10th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Judges rule battle to publish book must be pursued in secretive investigatory powers tribunal.”
The Guardian, 9th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A review launched by the government in the wake of high-profile match-fixing allegations is set to recommend the creation of a single unit dedicated to investigating corruption in sports betting.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“England’s draconian libel laws pose a danger to public health because they are interfering with the research published by medical journals, senior editors and scientists said.”
The Times, 10th December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Bath and North East Somerset Council was paid at least £4.17m in compensation for the delayed Bath Spa Project, its accounts have revealed.”
BBC News, 9th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
R (A) v Director of Establishments of the Security Service [2009] UKSC 12; [2009] WLR (D) 356
“Jurisdiction to hear a claim against the intelligence services for a violation of the right to freedom of expression guaranteed by art 10 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms was granted exclusively to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (“IPT”) by s 65(2)(a) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. Therefore the High Court had no jurisdiction to hear an application for judicial review brought by a former member of the Security Service in respect of a refusal of permission to publish a book about his work with the service.”
WLR Daily, 9th December 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 County Durham man left with brain damage after being kicked by a horse at a Cumbrian fair, has been blocked from claiming compensation.”
BBC News, 9th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An international waste management company has been fined £150,000 after a major chemical fire closed two motorways in Lancashire.”
BBC News, 9th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A coroner today criticised the Ministry of Defence for failing to adequately maintain a helicopter which crashed and caught fire in Iraq, claiming the lives of two SAS soldiers.”
The Independent, 9th December 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Ofcom has ruled that controversial BBC1 documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed, which alleged that events such as Crufts awarded top prizes to unhealthy and inbred animals, was unfair in some aspects of its treatment of the Kennel Club.”
The Guardian, 9th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A district judge questioned the character of a Muslim convert as he dismissed the case against husband and wife Christian hoteliers who she claimed had deeply offended her new-found religion.”
The Times, 9th December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A British Muslim has been convicted of conspiring to murder civilians in a ‘deadly terrorist attack’.”
BBC News, 9th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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