Practice Direction – Allocation and Transfer of Proceedings Order 2008 – Judiciary of England and Wales
“Allocation and Transfer of Proceedings Order 2008.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 6th November 2008
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
MPs seek to censor the media – The Independent
“Britain’s security agencies and police would be given unprecedented and legally binding powers to ban the media from reporting matters of national security, under proposals being discussed in Whitehall.”
The Independent, 10th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Academics balk at ‘spying’ on students to nail migrant scams – The Guardian
“Universities are being asked to set up surveillance units to monitor the movements of international students in a government-led crackdown on bogus student immigration scams, academics say.”
The Guardian, 10th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Challenge to attorney’s powers by family of student killed in Germany – The Guardian
“The power of the attorney general to make decisions free from the scrutiny of courts came under renewed attack last week, in a challenge by the family of Jeremiah Duggan, a British student whose death in Germany five years ago has been described by lawyers as ‘disturbing and bizarre’.”
The Guardian, 10th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Home Office bars Thaksin Shinawatra from returning to Britain – The Times
“Thaksin Shinawatra, the deposed Thai Prime Minister and former owner of Manchester City Football Club, has had his visa revoked by the British Government, two years after he fled to exile in London following a military coup.”
The Times, 10th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Council homes for life ‘to be scrapped’ – The Times
“People living in council houses will no longer be entitled to a subsidised tenancy for life under Whitehall proposals to address waiting lists.
The measures are being considered by Margaret Beckett, the new Housing Minister, in the most radical shake-up of the social housing system for decades to ensure that those who deserve council homes get them.”
The Times, 11th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Mail editor accuses Mosley judge – BBC News
“Daily Mail editor-in-chief Paul Dacre has launched an attack on a High Court judge, accusing him of bringing in a privacy law by the back door.”
BBC News, 9th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Ban on votes for prisoners is illegal, says EU – The Observer
“The government must give prisoners the right to vote or the next general election will be illegal under European law, ministers have been warned by parliament’s influential Joint Committee on Human Rights.”
The Observer, 9th November 2008
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk
Harman and Law Lord clash over wife killers – The Observer
“Minister says the defence of ‘provocation’ lets men get away with murder.”
The Observer, 9th November 2008
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
JD, R v [2008] EWCA Crim 2557 (24 October 2008)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Ali v Birmingham City Council [2008] EWCA Civ 1228 (07 November 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
Porn surf nurse struck off – The Independent
“A nurse on an old people’s ward who used a hospital computer to look at sexually explicit images of an elderly woman was struck off today.”
The Independent, 7th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Man ‘shopped’ by mother is jailed – BBC News
“A man whose mother shopped him to police after he admitted killing a man has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to manslaughter.”
BBC News, 7th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Men will suffer from new laws on sex discrimination, academic warns – Daily Telegraph
“Men will become the new victims of sex discrimination if workplace equality laws are strengthened further, according to a female academic.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Asian employee superimposed on to bin Laden cave picture sues company – Daily Telegraph
“Vinod Rajdev claims that colleagues at software provider Civica routinely taunted him and joked that he was an al-Qaeda terrorist ‘mastermind’.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Security firm fined £95,000 after criminals guard shops – The Times
“A security firm was fined £95,000 today after sending out unlicensed guards and staff with criminal convictions to look after a string of high street stores.”
The Times, 7th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Policeman jailed for having sex on duty – The Independent
“A police officer who admitted having sex with one woman while on duty and propositioning another after she had been arrested was today jailed for four months.”
The Independent, 7th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Lord Falconer: ‘regulators will drive litigation’ – The Times
“A surge in litigation is likely to be driven by regulators as they seek to find blame for the financial crisis, a group of leading lawyers said last night.”
The Times, 7th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Ready for a fight in the Law’s ‘Big Bang’ – Evening Standard
“As lawyers gear up for their version of the Big Bang, tensions are growing within a profession that has always prided itself on keeping calm in a crisis. The catalyst was an announcement by the Law Society last month that it was to commission a wide-ranging review of how solicitors in England and Wales should be regulated under recent legislation.”
Evening Standard, 4th November 2008
Source: www.thisislondon.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Michael Wilson & Partners Ltd v Emmott [2008] EWHC 2684 (Comm) (06 November 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
Cremation Regulations 2008: Your right to inspect the medical certificates – Ministry of Justice
“The Cremation Regulations 2008 come into effect on 1 January 2009. They modernise and consolidate all previous regulations, replacing the Cremation Regulations 1930 as amended.”
Ministry of Justice, 7th November 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
