House of Lords
“The Director of Public Prosecutions should be required to promulgate a policy identifying the facts and circumstances that he would take into account in considering whether to prosecute persons such as the claimant’s husband for aiding and abetting an assisted suicide abroad.”
The Times, 31st July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A consultation setting out proposed priorities for the delivery of prison and probation services in the capital and the joint work between agencies to reduce reoffending. The consultation will be used to inform an action plan for 2009-11.”
Ministry of Justice, 31st July 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Bar Council accused the Crown Prosecution Service of ‘Alice in Wonderland accounting’ this week over the CPS’s claim to have saved millions using its own lawyers rather than external advocates.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 30th July 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The work that solicitors have done under the mineworkers’ compensation scheme has attracted the attention of press, parliament and the public ever since details of wrongdoing began to emerge earlier this decade. But the debate has focused on two controversies: the millions of pounds that solicitors have earned, and the deductions that some solicitors made from miners’ compensation.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 30th July 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Bar Council has today published its response to Lord Justice Jackson’s Preliminary Report on the costs of civil litigation. Lord Justice Jackson, who has been asked by the Master of the Rolls to investigate civil litigation costs, published his Preliminary Report in May 2009. A Bar Council Working Group, chaired by Michael Todd QC, has submitted its response to the Preliminary Report. This sets out the Bar Council’s views on the principles of civil litigation costs and on case management.”
The Bar Council, 31st July 2009
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“A claim that one food mixer violated the trade mark rights of another by being similar in shape has failed. The Court of Appeal said that any similarity in shape between the machines had not given Kenwood an unfair advantage over Whirlpool.”
OUT-LAW.com, 31st July 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“An interest rate of 15% agreed in a contract between two companies was not a penalty and was justified, the Court of Appeal has said. The interest, which had been ruled unlawful, can be charged, said the Court.”
OUT-Law.com, 30th July 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Racecourses did not break competition laws when they decided to sell their television rights only to a company that they owned. A rival company owned by betting shops has lost its case at the Court of Appeal.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th July 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“A 66-year-old man who tried to murder his young Filipino wife after she had an affair with a salsa teacher has been jailed for 18 years.”
BBC News, 30th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government’s plans for reforming the regulation of banks are ‘largely cosmetic’ and ‘lack clarity’, MPs in the Treasury Select Committee say.”
BBC News, 31st July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A government scheme to allow defendants to be dealt with via ‘virtual courts’ is being boycotted by solicitors who say it is ‘justice on the cheap’.
BBC News, 31st July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A music teacher faces up to ten years in prison after he admitted giving his father, who was terminally ill, a gun so that he could shoot himself dead in a busy hospital ward.”
The Times, 31st July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Guidance for the controversial Independent Safeguarding Authority states that youths who want to help vulnerable groups will have to be vetted ‘in time for their 16th birthday to avoid committing an offence’.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former royal bodyguard who masterminded a £3 million investment scam was jailed for six years today.”
The Independent, 30th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The great train robber Ronnie Biggs has been given permission to challenge the decision to refuse him parole, his legal adviser said today.”
The Guardian, 30th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The musician who wrote the haunting organ riff in A Whiter Shade of Pale, the 1967 hit for Procol Harum that became part of the soundtrack of the last half-century, is entitled to future royalties, the House of Lords ruled today.”
The Guardian, 30th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A crackdown on thousands of council tenants who are making huge profits by sub-letting their homes illegally will be announced by ministers today.”
The Times, 31st July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Families who help terminally ill relatives to end their lives will be free from the risk of prosecution after a landmark ruling yesterday.”
The Times, 31st July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Tony Blair will be called to give evidence to the Iraq war inquiry, its chairman confirmed today.”
The Independent, 30th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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