“Witnesses who give evidence against gang members will be guaranteed their anonymity as soon as they come forward so they can be free from fear of reprisals, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Gichura v Home Office and another; [2008] WLR (D) 164
“Once a disabled detainee had gone through the administrative stage on arrival at a detention centre the services subsequently provided came within the scope of s 19(2) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Kilby v Gawith; [2008] WLR (D) 163
“The court had no discretion under CPR r 45.11(1) to disallow a successful claimant a success fee provided for in the conditional fee agreement with her solicitors.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A provision which had the effect of prohibiting smoking in a high security psychiatric hospital was not incompatible with the human rights of detained mental patients and was not unlawful.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
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In re Rottmann (a bankrupt) ; [2008] WLR (D) 161
“The court had power to suspend the public examination of a bankrupt pursuant to s 290 of the Insolvency Act 1986 and order the examination to be conducted in private where foreign criminal proceedings had been instituted against the bankrupt.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
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SB v A County Council [2008] EWCA Civ 535; [2008] WLR (D) 160
“A judge considering dispensing with parental consent to adoption had to focus on the child’s welfare ‘throughout his life’, to emphasise that adoption, unlike other forms of order, was something with lifelong implications.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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BE (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 540; [2008] WLR (D) 159
“An Iranian soldier who had been ordered in peacetime to plant land mines liable to kill or maim innocent civilians, and who had deserted, was entitled to international protection as a refugee since the order constituted a requirement that he commit a grave violation of human rights which could further be characterised as ‘gross’ and ‘an atrocity’.
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
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Adorian v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2008] EWHC 1081 (QB); [2008] WLR (D) 158
“Civil proceedings for trespass to the person commenced by a claimant who has been convicted in the United Kingdom of an imprisonable offence, committed on the same occasion as the alleged trespass, are not rendered a nullity by the claimant’s failure to seek the prior permission of the court as required by s 329(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Corporate Officer of the House of Commons v Information Commissioner and Others
Queen’s Bench Division
“Shortcomings in transparency and accountability in the system of paying additional costs allowances to Members of Parliament justified full disclosure of detailed information concerning those payments of their residential expenses.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Court of Appeal
“The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, would not give the Crown leave to appeal unless it was seriously arguable, not that a judge in exercising his discretion or making his judgment in the course of a criminal trial might have decided differently, but that it was unreasonable for him to have done it in the way he had.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“Written ministerial statement: CPS report – DNA profiles disk inquiry.”
Attorney General’s Office, 21st May 2008
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“CPS: DNA profiles disk inquiry”
Attorney General’s Office, 21st May 2008
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“A dentist and his wife who stole more than £30,000 from the NHS by claiming money for treatment never given to patients have been jailed.”
BBC News, 20th may 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A carer from Greater Manchester who killed a 16-month-old baby by holding him upside down and flinging him against furniture has been jailed.”
BBC News, 21st May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A builder whose work caused the death of a man through carbon monoxide poisoning has been jailed for three and a half years.”
BBC News, 21st May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A car-ringer who is believed to have pocketed more than £1m by shipping luxury vehicles stolen from Britain has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.”
BBC News, 22nd May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police have arrested 198 people on suspicion of domestic, homophobic and race hate crimes after raids across London, Scotland Yard have said.”
BBC News, 22nd May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Conservatives’ campaign in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election suffered an embarrassing last-minute setback when the party published the personal details of more than 8,000 voters.”
The Independent, 22nd May 2008
Source: www.independen.co.uk
“A woman has been fined nearly £300 for leaving her bins out a day before they were due to be collected.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd May 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Knife crime has escalated to ‘epidemic proportions’ and has to be ‘confronted and stopped’, said Sir Igor Judge, the President of the High Court Queen’s Bench Division.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd May 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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