“Jack Straw has announced proposals to crack down on nuisance legal claims and new powers to seize money from prisoners.”
Ministry of Justice, 16th July 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Justice Minister Bridget Prentice has made a statement about the government response to the Law Commission’s Report on Housing: Proportionate Dispute Resolution.”
Ministry of Justice, 16th July 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Law Commission welcomes the Government’s response to its report on housing disputes.”
Law Commission, 16th July 2009
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
“Two Bournemouth businesses have been fined a total of more than £40,000 for employing illegal workers.”
UK Border Agency, 16th July 2009
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The Bar Council and the Family Law Bar Association have today published a review of the Impact Assessment carried out by Ernst & Young on the impact of the Legal Service Commission’s proposed cuts to the family legal aid budget. The review, which was conducted by the independent economic consultancy Oxera, analyses the Ernst & Young report, A Market Analysis of Family Advocacy, which was published on the 29th June.”
The Bar Council, 16th July 2009
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“The Bar Council has today welcomed the report on family law reform, Every Family Matters, from the Centre for Social Justice, a leading think tank which is chaired by the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, the former Leader of the Conservative Party. The Centre for Social Justice’s latest family law report, which focuses on the breakdown of family life in modern Britain, and the way in which this is addressed by the legal system.”
The Bar Council, 16th July 2009
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“Press Release: Attorney General welcomes analysis of CPS advocacy.”
Attorney General’s Office, 16th July 2009
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“O’Connor and Rooney: serial burglars’ sentences doubled.”
Attorney General’s Office, 16th July 2009
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“On-the-spot fines for shoplifting will now be limited to first-time offenders who are not drug users, Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said.”
BBC News, 16th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Eight men have been sentenced for a drugs conspiracy that saw millions of pounds of heroin imported into the UK.”
BBC News, 16th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Solicitors dubbed the government’s response to the Law on Damages consultation an anti-climax this week, two years after its original deadline.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 16th July 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Proposals to cut £12 million in legal aid spent on families and children have been castigated by MPs, days after a senior family judge warned of their ‘chilling effect’.”
the Times, 17th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The competition watchdog is standing firm on its plans to introduce a new test into the planning system in a bid to combat the dominance of big supermarket chains.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A burglar who attacked a 94-year-old woman has been cleared of her murder.”
BBC News, 16th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman has been awarded £60,000 in damages for the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother after a London council failed to take her into care.”
BBC News, 16th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who ran over his own friend and left him dying in the road was jailed for more than five years today.”
The Independent, 16th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“If revenge is a dish best served cold, the portion served up by Martin Frostick was positively icy. Eleven years after he was gazumped on a house purchase, he launched a smear campaign to ruin the estate agents he blamed for the collapse of the deal.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jack Straw plans to cut ‘nuisance’ legal claims by prisoners. But doing so risks a return to the bad old days of rooftop protest.”
The Guardian, 17th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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