“A father has been jailed for helping his pregnant wife flee abroad because she was terrified that social services would take her baby.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A judge has spoken of his ‘regret’ at having to jail a pensioner for five years for firing a pistol at a neighbour’s car after a long-running feud.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Bishop of London has written to the Home Secretary urging her to halt the deportation of a Nigerian teenager who has won universal praise for his unique and outstanding contribution to British society.”
The Independent, 8th February 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The current record police force strength in England and Wales, which peaked at 141,000 officers, is ‘unsustainable’ over the next three years and numbers are likely to fall, the government’s most senior adviser on policing warned yesterday.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Scotland Yard’s deputy commissioner was told two months ago of allegations that his officers had bugged an MP while he talked to a constituent who was held in prison, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers for Abu Hamza were scrambling last night to appeal against a formal order by the home secretary for the radical preacher’s extradition to the US.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Sharia courts have already spread across Britain and are being used as an alternative and informal legal system by many British Muslims.”
The Times, 8th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Law firms that grew rich by exploiting sick miners are to be forced to repay tens of millions of pounds that they wrongly sliced from their clients’ compensation.”
The Times, 8th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Sports fans were conned into spending thousands of pounds on forged autographs of their heroes, including a fake Michael Owen cup final shirt and signed photographs of David Beckham and Jonny Wilkinson, Chester Crown Court was told yesterday.”
The Times, 8th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Murder case notes, a gangster dossier and papers detailing threats to the UK were all found in Greater Manchester after being lost by the authorities.”
BBC News, 7th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A landmark case collapsed in unprecedented fashion today as the House of Lords refused to continue hearing a claim brought by Equatorial Guinea against the alleged plotters of a failed coup because it will not allow one of the defendants to meet with his lawyers.”
The Times, 7th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Archbishop of Canterbury prompted controversy today when he said the introduction of sharia law for British Muslims was ‘unavoidable’.”
The Guardian, 7th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“British Energy looks set to keep control of Eggborough, its last remaining coal-fired power station, after a court blocked a proposed takeover plan organised by the investment bank Credit Suisse.”
The Times, 7th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Agency workers do not have the same rights as employees, the Court of Appeal has ruled, handing businesses a victory in ongoing struggles about employees’ rights.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th February 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Tens of thousands of workers who lost the bulk of their retirement savings because of bad advice from the Government have won another round in their long-running battle for compensation.”
The Times, 7th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Jack Straw has given his commitment to offer more community sentences that provide effective punishment and rehabilitation for offenders, benefiting communities whilst reducing reoffending.”
Ministry of Justice, 7th February 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A major investigation was under way yesterday after a man was accused of escaping from a secure mental health unit and raping a schoolgirl.”
The Guardian, 7th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
R (G) v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police [2008] EWCA Civ 28; [2008] WLR (D) 35
“A custody officer who had determined that he had sufficient evidence to charge a suspect with the offence for which he had been arrested had no power to detain the suspect in custody for the purpose of enabling a Crown Prosecutor to decide whether or not the suspect should be charged.”
WLR Daily, 6th February 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Pilecki v Circuit Court of Legnica, Poland [2008] UKHL 7; [2008] WLR (D) 34
“The judge, in considering the making of an extradition order under a European arrest warrant in a conviction case where the sentences had been aggregated, was not concerned with the lengths of the individual sentences; it sufficed if the aggregate sentence was of at least four months.”
WLR Daily, 6th February 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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