“Changes to the Criminal Procedure Rules, affecting procedures used in magistrates’ courts, the Crown Court and the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal, come into effect today.”
Ministry of Justice, 5th October 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“BAE Systems is prepared to settle the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) six-year investigation into allegations of bribery in Africa and Eastern Europe, but will not do so ‘at any cost’.”
The Times, 5th October 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Foreign-owned City banks are considering a legal challenge to government plans to curb City bonuses, strictures to which their British counterparts have agreed.”
The Times, 5th October 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Senior prosecution officials have received personal bonuses for seizing defendants’ assets under an incentive scheme which, it is feared, could create miscarriages of justice.”
The Times, 5th October 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Mitchell, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 1899 (08 September 2009)
Burns, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 1907 (03 September 2009)
Truong, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 1910 (01 September 2009)
Atkins & Anor v R [2009] EWCA Crim 1876 (02 October 2009)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Phillips & Anor v McGregor-Paterson [2009] EWHC 2385 (Ch) (02 October 2009)
Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Ltd [2009] EWHC 2308 (Ch) (02 October 2009)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Serious Organised Crime Agency v Pelekanos [2009] EWHC 2307 (QB) (02 October 2009)
Thomson v Berkhamsted Collegiate School [2009] EWHC 2374 (QB) (02 October 2009)
High Court (Administrative Court)
British Broadcasting Corporation v Sugar & Anor [2009] EWHC 2349 (Admin) (02 October 2009)
Ozdowski v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWHC 2371 (Admin) (17 August 2009)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
K/S Lincoln & Ors v CB Richard Ellis Hotels Ltd [2009] EWHC 2344 (TCC) (02 October 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
“A Judge is being investigated after he freed a child rapist who kidnapped and assaulted a five-year-old just eight days later.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th October 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Consumers are at increasing risk from a growing ‘fringe legal market’ in will writing, probate work and claims handling, says a report due out today.”
The Times, 5th October 2
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The law on ‘living wills’ could be reviewed after a young woman used one to commit suicide, Andy Burnham, the Health Secretary, has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th October 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The new UK Supreme Court is to hear its first case as five men suspected of financing terrorism challenge the freezing of their assets.”
BBC News, 5th October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Up to 30 ‘high-risk’ terrorists — including some of the most dangerous men in Britain — are due to be released from jail in the next year.”
The Times, 4th October 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Children are being denied school trips for fear teachers will be sued if something goes wrong, despite the fact that only 156 recorded legal actions have ended in compensation in the past decade, new research reveals.”
The Guardian, 2nd October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A planned extension of on the spot fines has been scrapped in a Government about turn amid concerns that criminals are escaping with financial penalties instead of being dealth with by the courts.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th October 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A planning consultant has been convicted of two charges of damaging or destroying the sites of protected bat species at a former hospital building.”
BBC News, 2nd October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who killed his girlfriend’s two-year-old son after weeks of systematic violence has been jailed for six years.”
BBC News, 2nd October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man and a teenager have been jailed for life for murdering a father-of-five as he walked home from a shop in Staffordshire.”
BBC News, 2nd October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Championship footballer who killed a father of five in a crash on Christmas Day was starting a 32-month jail sentence today.”
The Independent, 2nd October 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service today defended its decision to take legal proceedings against a 71-year-old woman who prodded a 17-year-old youth in the chest.”
The Independent, 2nd October 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes were told today that police officers involved in the fatal shooting will not face punishment.”
The Independent, 2nd October 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The BBC yesterday won the right to keep secret the production costs of some of its most famous programmes, including Top Gear, in a ruling at the High Court.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd October 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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