“Professional sports players have been warned that they face two-year jail sentences if they break new laws that come into force under the Gambling Act today.”
The Guardian, 2nd September 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Briton who has spent more than 20 years on death row in the US is to face a retrial.”
BBC News, 1st September 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The use of the Old Bailey and other crown courts to try children is ‘inappropriate’, the new head of the Criminal Bar Association has warned.”
BBC News, 3rd September 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Research using hybrid embryos is likely to be given the go-ahead this week after warnings it would be a major blow to British science if the Government watchdog refused to allow it.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st September 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“New gambling laws that relax restrictions on advertising and extend opening hours come into force today.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st September 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Benefit claimants and job seekers could be forced to take lie detector tests as early as next year after an early review of a pilot scheme exposed 126 benefit cheats in just three months, saving one local authority £110,000.”
The Observer, 2nd September 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers for a couple infected with HIV through contaminated blood products are hoping to reopen the issue of government responsibility for the scandal in the British courts.”
The Guardian, 3rd September 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A report into Britain’s youngest death in custody will today condemn the youth justice system for treating 14-year-old Adam Rickwood more as a tearaway deserving to be locked up rather than a vulnerable child in need of care.”
The Guardian, 3rd September 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ministers will face calls this week to extend the laws to protect the elderly as tribunals brace themselves for a surge in age discrimination claims.”
The Times, 3rd September 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A leading barrister and part-time judge believes ASBOs should be scrapped because they could lead to severe injustice.”
The Times, 3rd September 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
F & H (children), Re [2007] EWCA Civ 880 (24 August 2007)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Goodyer and Gomes v Government of Trinidad and Tobago [2007] EWHC 2012 (Admin) (22 August 2007)
Breckon v DPP [2007] EWHC 2013 (Admin) (22 August 2007)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Dobson & Ors v Thames Water Utilities Ltd & Anor [2007] EWHC 2021 (TCC) (24 August 2007)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Disease Control (England) (Amendment) Order 2007
The Road Safety Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2007
The Housing Act 2004 (Commencement No. 9) (England and Wales) Order 2007
The Housing Benefit (Loss of Benefit) (Pilot Scheme) (Supplementary) Regulations 2007
The Tobacco Products (Manufacture, Presentation and Sale) (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2007
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“The number of divorces in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level since 1984 amid signs that changes in legal rulings and publicity surrounding big divorce settlements are encouraging couples to stay together.”
The Guardian,31st August 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published new guidance yesterday that explains its view of what counts as personal data under the Data Protection Act (DPA). Information that is not personal data today may become personal data as technology advances, it says.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th August 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“A software developer responsible for a copyright infringement described even by the copyright owner as insignificant still broke the law, a court has ruled. An injunction has been served even though the infringer has stopped using the technology.”
OUT-LAW.com, 31st August 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“Scotland Yard was today investigating claims that a solicitor who represented some of the July 21 bombers tried to bribe a co-defendant.”
The Guardian, 30th August 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A businessman who had a speed gun ‘zapper’ fitted to his Range Rover and then denied knowledge of it to police was fined £5,000 yesterday and banned from driving for a year.”
The Guardian, 31st August 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“More strikes by prison officers look inevitable in the wake of the government’s response to this week’s wildcat action. The justice secretary, Jack Straw, is due to meet union leaders today for ‘meaningful talks’, but both sides appeared headed for a confrontation which could spread to other public sector unions.”
The Guardian, 31st August 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who kept a video library of a campaign of sex attacks on children as young as three years old, racking up 89 separate offences, has been jailed for life.”
The Independent, 31st August 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A property developer’s landmark legal fight to secure compensation for land lost to squatters has ended in failure after Europe’s highest court ruled that UK law did not breach the developer’s human rights.”
The Times, 30th August 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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