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Mending fences - Law Society?s Gazette
Posted on May 02, 2008“Professor Karl Mackie, a tireless advocate of alternative dispute resolution, tells Jon Robins why the tide has turned for mediation.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 1st May 2008 Source: www.lawsocietygazette.co.uk
Government Response to Report on Attorney General?s Role - Attorney General?s Office
Posted on May 02, 2008“Government Response to Report on Attorney General’s Office.” Full response Attorney General’s Office, 30th April 2008 Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
Peart Review - Attorney General?s Office
Posted on May 02, 2008“Peart Review.” Full review Attorney General’s Office, 28th April 2008 Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
Statement: Anthony Leon Peart aka Anthony Leon Joseph - Attorney General?s Office
Posted on May 02, 2008“Statement: Anthony Leon Peart aka Anthony Leon Joseph.” Full statement Attorney General’s Office, 28th April 2008 Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
Inquests into the deaths of service personnel in operations and exercises overseas - Ministry of Justice
Posted on May 02, 2008“Justice Minister Bridget Prentice has made a written ministerial statement about the deaths of servicemen and women overseas.” Full statement Ministry of Justice, 30th April 2008 Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Teenagers who filmed attack on homeless man face jail - The Guardian
Posted on May 02, 2008“Four teenagers who filmed themselves beating a homeless man with a wheel brace face lengthy prison sentences after they were convicted yesterday.” Full story The Guardian, 2nd May 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Home Office in new attempt to bar US rapper - The Guardian
Posted on May 02, 2008“The Home Office yesterday lodged a second appeal in an attempt to prevent the US rapper Snoop Dogg entering Britain, after being twice overruled by immigration judges.” Full story The Guardian, 2nd May 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Two men guilty of blackmailing royal - The Guardian
Posted on May 02, 2008“Two men were today jailed for five years each after being found guilty of attempting to blackmail a member of the royal family over gay sex allegations.” Full story The Guardian, 2nd May 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI
Posted on May 02, 2008The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Pilot) Regulations 2008 The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 The Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Amendment Order 2008 The Football Spectators (2008 European Championship Control Period) Order 2008 Source: www...
?Racist, sexist? officer demoted - BBC News
Posted on May 02, 2008“A police sergeant has been demoted for bringing ‘disgrace on his force’ by making racist and sexist comments while on duty.” Full story BBC News, 2nd May 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
High court to consider referendum on EU treaty - The Guardian
Posted on May 02, 2008“A millionaire businessman today won permission for a high court challenge over the government’s refusal to hold a referendum on the EU reform treaty.” Full story The Guardian, 2nd May 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Harry Redknapp launches High Court action - The Times
Posted on May 02, 2008“Harry Redknapp, the Portsmouth manager, is launching a High Court action in London today over his arrest as part of the police inquiry into alleged corruption in football.” Full story The Times, 2nd May 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI
Posted on May 01, 2008The National Savings Bank (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2008 The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 The Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Commencement No...
R (Warden and Fellows of Winchester College and another) v Hampshire County Council - WLR Daily
Posted on May 01, 2008R (Warden and Fellows of Winchester College and another) v Hampshire County Council [2008] EWCA Civ 431; [2008] WLR (D) 132 “The formal requirements governing the making of an application to modify a definitive map and statement under s 53(5) of, and para 3 of Sch 14 to, the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which were [...
4 Eng Ltd v Harper and another - WLR Daily
Posted on May 01, 20084 Eng Ltd v Harper and another [2008] EWHC 915 (Ch); [2008] WLR (D) 131 “There was no objection in principle to recovery of damages for loss of a chance in an action for deceit.” WLR Daily, 30th April 2008 Source: www.lawreports.co.uk Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding [...
Regina (BAPIO Action Ltd and Another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Another - Times Law Reports
Posted on May 01, 2008Regina (BAPIO Action Ltd and Another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Another House of Lords “Government guidance to National Health Service employers which had the effect of preventing overseas trainee doctors from being offered postgraduate training places in NHS hospitals was unlawful...
Bicknell v Foxtons Ltd - Times Law Reports
Posted on May 01, 2008Bicknell v Foxtons Ltd Court of Appeal “An estate agent was entitled to a commission under a sole agency agreement only if he introduced to the client a person who was the eventual purchaser.” The Times, 1st May 2008 Source: www.timesonline...
Mitsubishi advert did not breach landowner?s privacy, rules ASA - OUT-LAW.com
Posted on May 01, 2008“A landowner who said that an advert depicting a car on his land invaded his privacy has had his claim rejected. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the land was not an identifiable possession of the man.” Full story OUT-LAW.com, 29th April 2008 Source: www...
Third Annual Report of the Judges? Council of England and Wales - Judiciary of England and Wales
Posted on May 01, 2008“Third Annual Report of the Judges’ Council of England and Wales.” Full report Judiciary of England and Wales, 28th April 2008 Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Bin Laden?s son in UK visa appeal - BBC News
Posted on May 01, 2008“One of Osama Bin Laden’s sons is to mount a legal challenge after being refused entry to live in the UK with his 52-year-old British wife.” Full story BBC News, 30th April 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Inquiry lets the big stores off hook, say local shopkeepers - The Guardian
Posted on May 01, 2008“Consumer groups accused the competition authorities of failing to check the power of Britain’s supermarket chains yesterday after a two-year investigation of the grocery market.” Full story The Guardian, 1st May 2008 Source: www.guardian...
Police resist tougher action on cannabis - Daily Telegraph
Posted on May 01, 2008“Police will not toughen their approach to cannabis when ministers upgrade the legal status of the drug to class B, it has been disclosed.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 1st May 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Facebook loophole ?open to identity thieves? - Daily Telegraph
Posted on May 01, 2008“A loophole on social networking site Facebook could allow identity thieves to access the personal data of users, according to an investigation.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 1st May 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
?Brainless thugs? get life term - The Times
Posted on May 01, 2008“A judge branded two men the ‘perfect example of brainless, mindless thugs’ as he jailed them for life for the murder of a grandfather they had mugged for his mobile phone.” Full story The Times, 1st May 2008 Source: www.timesonline...
Drink-drivers ?escape? as parking tickets hit record - The Times
Posted on May 01, 2008“Prosecutions of dangerous drivers have fallen to the lowest level for more than a decade but parking tickets have risen to a record high.” Full story The Times, 1st May 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Ban on fathers collecting stem-cell blood at births - The Times
Posted on May 01, 2008“New rules for the collection of cord blood have triggered a row between the Human Tissue Authority and Virgin Health Bank (VHB), a private company involved in the process.” Full story The Times, 1st May 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Vengeful mothers leave good fathers powerless to see child, says judge - The Times
Posted on May 01, 2008“A senior judge spoke out against child access law yesterday, saying that the courts were powerless to help decent fathers to see their children if vengeful mothers stood in the way.” Full story The Times, 1st May 2008 Source: www.timesonline...
Christian party loses BBC fight - BBC News
Posted on May 01, 2008“A Christian party has lost a High Court bid to have its party election broadcast (PEB) repeated, after claims it was censored by the BBC and ITV.” Full story BBC News, 30th April 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Tax staff breach data security - BBC News
Posted on May 01, 2008“More than 600 staff at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have been disciplined for accessing personal or sensitive data, it has been revealed.” Full story BBC News, 1st May 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Police ?spying? powers challenged - BBC News
Posted on May 01, 2008“A legal bid to challenge the power of the police to use surveillance against peaceful protesters has been launched at the High Court.” Full story BBC News, 1st May 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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