“An advert for the Robert de Niro and Al Pacino police thriller Righteous Kill, which used the line ‘there’s nothing wrong with a little shooting as long as the right people get shot’, was criticised by a watchdog for running during the inquest into the police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.”
The Guardian, 17th December 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Family court hearings are for the first time to be opened to accredited media, Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced today, in an oral statement in the House of Commons.”
Ministry of Justice, 16th December 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The secrecy of the family courts – in which nearly 95,000 cases are heard in private each year – is to end under reforms announced yesterday that will allow the media access to all levels of the system. The move could mean that social workers and expert witnesses who fail children, and now enjoy the protection of anonymity, will in future be named publicly when criticised by judges.”
The Times, 17th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The teenage killer of Rhys Jones was jailed for a minimum of 22 years yesterday by a judge who expressed his disgust at the murderer’s ‘brutality’ and ‘cowardice’.”
The Times, 17th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A juror who faced jail after posting details of a trial on Facebook is to escape court action.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th December 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A primary school teacher who struck his son-in-law with a cricket bat as he tried to defend his daughter has been jailed for manslaughter.”
BBC News, 16th December 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An NHS doctor who waged a terrorist car-bomb campaign intended to kill and maim hundreds of people in London and Glasgow has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder.”
The Times, 16th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A teenage gangster has been found guilty of murdering Rhys Jones, an 11-year-old schoolboy who was shot dead as he walked home from football practice last year.”
The Times, 16th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Underwood v HM Revenue & Customs [2008] EWCA Civ 1423 (15 December 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
R v Winters:[2008] EWCA Crim 2953; [2008] WLR (D) 387
“For the purpose of making the required assumptions in relation to determining whether the defendant had benefited from drug trafficking, the Crown was required to prove on the balance of probabilities that expenditure on mortgage payments was incurred by the defendant out of payments received by him in connection with his drug trafficking. Prima facie evidence that the defendant had incurred such expenditure was insufficient.”
WLR Daily, 15th December 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust [2008] UKHL 74; [2008] WLR (D) 386
“Where there was a real and immediate risk of a patient detained in a mental hospital committing suicide, art 2 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as scheduled to the Human Rights Act 1998, imposed an operational obligation on the medical authorities to do all that could reasonably be expected of them to prevent him doing so.”
WLR Daily, 15th December 2008
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Morshead Mansions Ltd v Di Marco [2008] EWCA Civ 1371; [2008] WLR (D) 384
“There was a distinction between the liability of a tenant to pay a service charge to the landlord under the terms of a lease, which was limited by s 18 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, and the liability of the members of a company landlord, in which all the tenants were shareholders, to the company under separate contracts made in and pursuant to the articles of association, to establish and recover contributions to a recovery fund.”
WLR Daily, 15th December 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“The purpose of reg 4(2)(e)(ii) of the Conditional Fee Agreement Regulations 2000 was to ensure that a solicitor acted and gave advice independently of his own interest. To determine whether, for the purposes of that regulation, a solicitor had an interest in recommending a particular insurance contract to his client, the test was whether a reasonable person with knowledge of the relevant facts would think that the existence of the interest might affect the advice given by the solicitor to his client, and if so, the interest should be disclosed.”
WLR Daily, 15th December 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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In re M (a Child) (Nonaccidental injury: Burden of proof)
Court of Appeal
“Counsel had a positive duty to raise with the judge not only any alleged deficiency in the judge’s reasoning but also any genuine query or ambiguity which arose on the judgment.”
The Times, 16th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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House of Lords
“In criminal proceedings against an employer after an accident ot work, it was sufficient for the prosecution to prove merely a risk of injury arising from a state of affairs at work, without identifying and proving specific breaches of duty by the employer. Once that was done, a prima facie case of breach was established. The onus then passed to the employer to make good the defence of reasonable practicability.”
The Times, 16th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“The Home Affairs Select Committee published on 15 June 2007 the report of its inquiry ‘Young Black People and the Criminal Justice System’, which considered how to tackle the over-representation of young black people in the criminal justice system. The government published its formal response on 18 October 2007. Detailed proposals for the delivery of improved outcomes for young black people were published on 13 December 2007, which set out the governance and reporting arrangements for delivering the government’s commitments. One of the commitments made was to provide the committee with an annual report of progress in each year up to 2011. This is the first annual report.”
Ministry of Justice, 16th December 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The approach to the restraint of young people in young offender institutions, secure training centres and secure children’s homes (under-18 secure estates) is to be overhauled, the government announced today. ”
Ministry of Justice, 15th December 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
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