“A solicitor who stole £1.25 million from a client left paralysed by a traffic accident was jailed yesterday for ten years for what the judge described as the ‘very worst breach of trust for a professional man’.”
The Times, 8th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Plans to put disruptive families through expensive so-called sin bin programmes to improve their behaviour are proving a costly failure, it has been claimed.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Plans to jail personal data thieves have been shelved due to a surprise amendment to a proposed new law. The new law will contain a clause threatening jail, but that clause will not be implemented.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th April 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“A £100,000 cannabis-dealing trial, launched following a high-profile police raid on a Rastafarian temple in south London, has collapsed in legal confusion.”
The Guardian, 8th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed by the reckless driving of their chauffeur, Henri Paul, and the paparazzi who chased them, jurors in the inquest into their deaths decided today.”
The Guardian, 7th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A mother who kept her son in a wheelchair for five years and convinced him and doctors that he could not walk has been jailed for four years.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Criminal Procedure Rule Committee is asking for views on proposed changes to the rules on starting a criminal case in a magistrates’ court.”
Ministry of Justice, 7th April 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A lawyer who stabbed his wife to death after she told him she was leaving him has been released after serving less than half of his sentence.”
BBC News, 7th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The coroner at the inquest into Princess Diana’s death has authorised the jury to return a majority verdict.”
BBC News, 7th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Rochester, R v [2008] EWCA Crim 678 (04 April 2008)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Brooker & Anor v Fisher [2008] EWCA Civ 287 (04 April 2008)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Pipe & Ors v Revenue & Customs [2008] EWHC 646 (Ch) (04 April 2008)
High Court (Family Division)
London Borough of Ealing v KS & Ors [2008] EWHC 636 (Fam) (03 April 2008)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Environmental Offences (Fixed Penalties) (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2008
The Meat (Official Controls Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2008
The Assembly Learning Grant (Further Education) Regulations 2008
The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) (Amendment) Order 2008
The Specified Animal Pathogens Order 2008
The Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 (Designation of Vessels and Controlled Sites) Order 2008
The Charities Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2008
The Tate Gallery Board (Additional Members) Order 2008
The Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character (Independent Schools) (England) Order 2008
The Local Authorities (Alcohol Disorder Zones) Regulations 2008
The Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2008
The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Cash Searches: Code of Practice) Order 2008
The Serious Crime Act 2007 (Amendment of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002) Order 2008
The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2008
The Housing Act 2004 (Commencement No. 11) (England and Wales) Order 2008
The Stroud (Parish Electoral Arrangements and Electoral Changes) Order 2008
The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Commencement No. 12) Order 2008
The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 19) Order 2008
The Police Act 1997 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2008
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Northern Ireland) Order 2008
The Bedfordshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008
The Department for Transport (Driver Licensing and Vehicle Registration Fees) (Amendment) Order 2008
The Offender Management Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2008
The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (B2007 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2008
The Official Statistics Order 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“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
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