“A newly created tribunal, set up to ensure credit businesses have a more independent route of appeal against decisions by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), starts work today, administered by the Tribunals Service.”
Press release (PDF)
Tribunals Service, 7th April 2008
Source: www.tribunals.gov.uk
In re S (Care Proceedings: Assessment of risk)
Court of Appeal
“Local authorities should not introduce in care proceedings, and send to experts, material which was unfair because it was purely prejudicial.”
The Times, 7th April 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.
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“It was essential that trial judges should be aware at the stage of jury selection if any potential juror was, or had been a police officer or a member of the prosecuting authority or was a serving prison officer.”
The Times, 7th April 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.
“Lucas’s business empire claims that it owns all the rights to the uniforms, while the lawyers at Simmons Cooper Andrew will argue that the rights are in fact vested in an obscure prop designer from Twickenham who made the first helmets and suits for the 1977 film.”
The Times, 7th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A landmark decision to ban a film showing Christ being caressed on the cross on the grounds that it was blasphemous could be reversed after almost 20 years.”
The Observer, 6th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Gordon Brown is considering repealing the 1701 Act of Settlement as a way of healing a historic injustice by ending the prohibition against Catholics taking the throne.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Legislation against selling, making, hiring or importing samurai swords in England and Wales has come into force.”
BBC News, 6th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“One in four people being added to the DNA database is a child, it emerged yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“More than half of young people copy the songs on their hard drives to friends and even more swap CD copies, according to research that reveals the huge challenge home copying poses to a music industry already battling internet file-sharing.”
The Guardian, 7th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hundreds of state prosecutors could be free to become judges under top-level moves to end a ban on Crown Prosecution Service employees entering the judiciary, The Times has learnt. Baroness Scotland, QC, the Attorney-General, and Sir Ken Mac-donald, QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, are both strongly in favour of the changes, saying that it would make the judiciary more diverse by widening the pool of women and ethnic minority lawyers who could be judges.”
The Times, 7th April 2008
Source: www.timeonline.co.uk
“The number of children and teenagers regularly committing crimes has soared since Labour came to power.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Prosecutions of companies found responsible for deaths – from rail crashes to accidents at work – are expected to rise significantly under laws that take effect tomorrow.”
The Times, 5th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A senior family court judge has hit out at the government over what he says is an ‘epidemic’ of family failure that will have ‘catastrophic’ effects.”
BBC News, 5th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“It is nearly 40 years since the Chagos islanders were evicted by the British government from their Indian Ocean home, but the legal battle aimed at giving them the right to return is still continuing.”
The Guardian, 7th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A college has been fined £14,000 after it failed to ensure the safety of a lecturer who suffered severe burns when an acid mix exploded over him.”
BBC News, 4th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teenage mother who killed the father of her child will serve at least 12 years in prison for murder.”
BBC News, 4th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An investigation has been launched into the death of a man who fell ill in a police van.”
BBC News, 4th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Procol Harum lead singer Gary Brooker has won back full royalty rights to the band’s worldwide hit, A Whiter Shade of Pale, at London’s Court of Appeal.”
BBC News, 4th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“English football clubs could be docked points from their league campaigns as part of a new zero-tolerance policy against fans who engage in antisemitic or Islamophobic abuse, the FA said yesterday.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Oscar winner Nicolas Cage today won a libel action against the Daily Mail and actor Kathleen Turner over false allegations that he had twice been arrested for drink-driving and had stolen a dog.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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