Man jailed for £10 debt ear slice – BBC News
“A drug dealer convicted of cutting part of a woman’s ear off because she owed him £10 has been jailed.”
BBC News, 16th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Partners of lesbian mothers to get paternity leave – Daily Telegraph
“Both women in lesbian couples with children should be given compulsory paternity and maternity leave, under proposals tabled in the European Parliament.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Prince’s Trust Thatcher lunch broke charity laws – The Guardian
“The Prince of Wales’ youth charity broke the law by running a joint fundraising event with an offshoot of the Conservative party, watchdog the Charity Commission ruled today.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Abuse pictures councillor jailed – BBC News
“A former local councillor has been jailed for six years after police found an illegal gun and child abuse images at his Greater Manchester home.”
BBC News, 16th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Police delete London tourists’ photos ‘to prevent terrorism’ – The Guardian
“Like most visitors to London, Klaus Matzka and his teenage son Loris took several photographs of some of the city’s sights, including the famous red double-decker buses. More unusually perhaps, they also took pictures of the Vauxhall bus station, which Matzka regards as ‘modern sculpture’.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Government stalls copyright reform as UK law deemed ‘abject failure’ – OUT-LAW.com
“Copyright reform in the UK has ‘stalled’ as the Government has caved in to the ‘vested interests’ of the content industry, the head of a digital rights activist group has said. The view comes as the UK ‘abjectly fails’ a test of its copyright laws.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th April 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
Sinclair and Another v Glatt and Others – Times Law Reports
Sinclair and Another v Glatt and Others
Court of Appeal
“A court-appointed receiver could have a lien on the property held in a convict’s name even though he had only a bare legal interest in it. A pending financial relief claim of the former wife of the convict had no priority over the receiver’s lien.”
The Times, 16th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Hatzl and Another v XL Insurance Co Ltd – Times Law Reports
Hatzl and Another v XL Insurance Co Ltd
Court of Appeal
“On a proper construction of article 31(1)(a) of the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road, scheduled to the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965, a dispute did not become justiciable in England merely by the fact that an assignor of one of the contracting parties happened to be domiciled in England if that was the only connection with the jurisdiction.”
The Times, 16th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Drug offence case is landmark for Britons jailed abroad – The Guardian
“A man serving 33 years in a British jail for a drug offence committed in Thailand is to challenge his sentence in what could become a precedent-setting case for Britons jailed abroad. The case is being watched by the growing number of Britons in overseas jails who want to serve their sentence in the UK.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Britons facing execution in Pakistan seek Miliband’s help – The Guardian
“Lawyers for two British nationals who face the death penalty in Pakistan, after allegedly being tortured to give confessions for murder they insist they did not commit, have asked the Foreign Office to intervene urgently in the case.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Hajrudin Hasanovic stabbed wife to death after police refused help – The Times
“A woman was stabbed to death by her husband in front of their two children hours after police had refused to escort her to a women’s refuge, a jury was told yesterday.”
The Times, 16th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Couple defrauded Citizens Advice Bureau of £650,000 to fund a life of luxury, jury told – The Guardian
“A couple funded a luxury lifestyle of champagne and top-class hotels by siphoning off up to £650,000 from a Citizens Advice Bureau office, a jury was told yesterday.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
The Inspectors of Education, Children’s Services and Skills Order 2009
The Police and Justice Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1) (England) Order 2009
The Hendon Urban Motorway Special Roads Scheme 1961 (Variation) Order 2009
The International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The Motor Cycles Etc. (Single Vehicle Approval) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Modification) Order 2009
The Iran (United Nations Sanctions) Order 2009
The European Union Military Staff (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2009
The Judicial Proceedings in Specified Overseas Territories (Restrictive Measures) Order 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Can’t afford to sue? Who do you call? – The Times
“Third parties bankrolling litigation used to be anathema. The credit crunch has brought a sea change.”
The Times, 16th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal widens rights to equal pay compensation – OUT-LAW.com
“Workers who are employed under an unbroken succession of contracts can now claim equal pay compensation for that string of contracts and not just the latest one, the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th April 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
Met chief orders review of public order policing after G20 protest – The Guardian
“The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has ordered a review of public order policing amid mounting concerns over the way his force and the City of London police handled the G20 protests this month.”
The Guardian, 15th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Woolf reforms and cost-cutting have led to acute shortages and a ‘deficient’ system – The Times
“If recent headlines have been about judges’ concerns over sentencing criminals, District Judge David Oldham is determined to press the case for the other half of the justice system. The civil courts, he says, are woefully under-resourced — a problem ever more acute in times of hardship.”
The Times, 16th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Government faces legal action over online snooping – The Guardian
“The European commission yesterday called for the UK’s privacy laws to be tightened to protect internet surfers as it launched legal proceedings against the government for breaching data protection and so-called ePrivacy rules.”
The Guardian, 15th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
DNA founder criticises database – BBC News
“The inventor of the genetic technology behind the national DNA database says it risks losing support because it holds the records of innocent people.”
BBC News, 15th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Judges look to the lords over strict curb on sentencing powers – The Times
“The judges are up in arms over changes to the justice system, says Judge Isobel Plumstead, of the Council of Circuit Judges.”
The Times, 16th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
