“Prison mental health services are struggling to cope as overstretched staff try to deal with rising levels of mental illness among prisoners, a major report will warn next week. Thousands of seriously mentally ill prisoners are being released untreated back into the community, it says.”
The Independent, 25th May 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An Oxford-educated investment banker who quoted Shakespeare as he sexually assaulted a woman has been jailed indefinitely.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Britain’s artistic community is battling against leading auction houses and dealers to bring in a law forcing the payment of a royalty on artists’ works for 70 years after their deaths — in line with writers and musicians.”
The Times, 27th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An Iranian-born solicitor has launched an unprecedented £10m claim against the Law Society and the solicitors’ regulatory body for racial and religious discrimination, harassment and victimisation.”
The Guardian, 26th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“New police powers to combat knife crime could cause increased antagonism amongst young people, the Children’s Commissioner for England has warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A woman was threatened with a fine by her local council for putting posters on lampposts to find the owners of a lost cat. Public-spirited Joy Tracey wanted to reunite Copper the ginger tom with his owners after he was found whimpering in a garden.”
The Guardian, 24th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A new legal weapon came into force over the weekend in a government crackdown on unscrupulous companies that mislead customers or use aggressive sales tactics.”
The Times, 27th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A former paratrooper who had a sex change operation has won a payout of £250,000 for hurt feelings after she was ordered to wear a man’s uniform to a medical examination.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th May 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A senior High Court judge has called for an overhaul of the court costs system in environmental cases because ordinary people were being denied their right to challenge decisions affecting their lives.”
The Guardian, 25th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Eight years after Victoria Climbié died, the lessons of that terrible case seem not to have been learned.”
The Independent, 25th May 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Prison officers at one of Britain’s maximum security jails are losing control to Muslim gangs, according to a confidential report obtained by The Observer. An internal review of Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire warns that staff believe a ‘serious incident is imminent’ as several wings become dominated by Muslim prisoners.”
The Guardian, 25th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Cigarettes will be banned from public display in shops and vending machines are to be scrapped under dramatic new plans designed to curb smoking among young people.”
The Independent, 26th May 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2008
The Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006 (Commencement No.4) Order 2008
The Income Tax (Construction Industry Scheme) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2008
The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
The Electoral Administration Act 2006 (Regulation of Loans etc: Northern Ireland) Order 2008
The Drinking Milk (England) Regulations 2008
The Electoral Administration Act 2006 (Commencement No.7) Order 2008
The Recreation Grounds (Revocation of Parish Council Byelaws) Order 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
R v Porter; [2008] WLR (D) 167
“There was no obligation upon an employer in the conduct of his undertaking to guard against those risks which were merely fanciful. The fact that risk was part of everyday life went to the issue whether an injured person had been exposed to real risk by the conduct of the operation in question. There was no objective standard which applied in every case but there would be important factors which would indicate one way or the other whether there was such a risk.”
WLR Daily, 23rd May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
In re Federal-Mogul Aftermarket UK Ltd and others [2008] EWHC 1099 (Ch); [2008] WLR (D) 166
“There was nothing in the rationale underlying the general application of the hindsight principle to contingent debts which should restrict its application to whether there had been an initial triggering event.”
WLR Daily, 23rd May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A refugee, who arrived in the United Kingdom directly from the country of persecution in transit to a country of preferred refuge, was entitled to the protection from prosecution provided by art 31(1) of the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees when, in attempting to leave the United Kingdom after a short stop-over she presented false documentation to the airline for onward travel to her intended sanctuary.”
WLR Daily, 23rd May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
European Court of Human Rights
“A local authority which bypassed the statutory scheme for evicting a tenant, had violated his right to respect for the home, as guaranteed by article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, when the summary procedure used had not provided appropriate procedural safeguards.”
The Times, 23rd May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Wood v Director of Public Prosecutions
Queen’s Bench Division
“Where a police officer restrained a person, but did not at that time intend or purport to arrest him, he was committing an assault, even if an arrest would have been justified.”
The Times, 23rd May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Court of Appeal
“A restraint order made in an English court after a request from a foreign prosecutor for such an order on property did not apply to property in Scotland.”
The Times, 23rd May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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