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Grandmother killer driver jailed - BBC News

Posted on March 24, 2009
“A driver who admitted killing a grandmother who had been taking her grandson for a Christmas Eve stroll has been jailed for four and a-half-years.” Full story BBC News, 24th March 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Man jailed for murdering landlady - BBC News

Posted on March 24, 2009
“A barman from Cornwall who claimed he awoke to find his landlady having sex with him has been given a life sentence for her murder.” Full story BBC News, 24th March 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Businessman who murdered estranged wife loses conviction appeal - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 24, 2009
“Businessman Nat Fraser who murdered his estranged wife Arlene nearly 11 years ago has lost his latest bid to overturn his conviction.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 24th March 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Paranoid schizophrenic released into community to murder - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 24, 2009
“Paranoid schizophrenic Tennyson Obih who was sectioned twice before being released into care in the community went ‘off the radar’ of the health services and murdered a policeman in broad daylight.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 24th March 2009 Source: www...

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PCC chair criticises media law firms - The Guardian

Posted on March 24, 2009
“The chairman of the Press Complaints Commission has rounded on a number of London medi law firms, saying that they see the press watchdog as their ’sworn enemy’.” Full story The Guardian, 24th March 2009 Source: www.guardian.co...

Private school child safety rules should be ?overhauled? - The Guardian

Posted on March 24, 2009
“Rules governing children’s safety in independent schools and academies should be ‘comprehensively overhauled’, a government advisor said today.” Full story The Guardian, 24th March 2009 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Prince Charles? Duchy Originals ordered to remove ?misleading? herbal remedy claims - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 23, 2009
“The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has upheld a complaint over the online advertising of two remedies, Duchy Herbals Echina-Relief Tincture and Duchy Herbals Hyperi-Lift Tincture, which are sold for £10 for 50ml in selected Boots and Waitrose stores...

Government bid to extend ?human rights? prompts fears of nanny state - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 23, 2009
“Entitlement to good health care, education and freedom from poverty could be enshrined in law under the green paper to be published by Justice Minister Jack Straw.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 23rd March 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Stars call for end to archaic libel laws - The Times

Posted on March 23, 2009
“The actor and comedian Rowan Atkinson and writer Andrew O?Hagan are heading a coalition of entertainers, writers, lawyers and journalists in a move today for the scrapping of an archaic law that allows people to be jailed for speaking out.” Full story The Times, 23rd March 2009 Source: www...

College sued over sex abuse claim - BBC News

Posted on March 23, 2009
“A former City lawyer is claiming £5m damages against a Catholic school over sexual abuse he alleges he suffered there during the 1970s.” Full story  BBC News, 23rd March 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted on March 23, 2009
Court of Appeal (Civil Divsion) Bracknell Forest Borough Council v Green & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 238 (20 March 2009) Lambert v Clayton [2009] EWCA Civ 237 (20 March 2009) High Court (Administrative Court) Bailey & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWHC 562 (Admin) (20 March 2009) Secretary of State for the Home Department v [...

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on March 23, 2009
The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) Regulations 2009 The Plant Health (Import Inspection Fees) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 The Control of Salmonella in Broiler Flocks (Wales) Order 2009 The National Health Service (Dental Charges, General Dental Services Contracts and Personal Dental Services Agreements) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 The Charter Trustees Regulations 2009 The Public Guardian (Fees, etc...

Bovale Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Another - Times Law Reports

Posted on March 23, 2009
Bovale Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Another Court of Appeal “While a judge had no power to alter the Civil Procedure Rules or vary any practice direction, either by a judgment or purported practice direction, he did have an inherent jurisdiction to include procedural directions of a general application where [...

Regina (BA)(Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department - Times Law Reports

Posted on March 23, 2009
Regina (BA)(Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department Court of Appeal “The right of appeal against the refusal by the Home Office to revoke a deportation order was exercisable from within the United Kingdom.” The Times, 23rd March 2009  Source: www...

Legal aid reform programme - Ministry of Justice

Posted on March 23, 2009
“Legal Aid Minister Lord Bach has given a speech on the legal aid reform programme at the Advice Services Alliance conference in which he has announced that more people will be eligible for civil legal aid.” Full speech  Ministry of Justice, 20th March 2009 Source: www...

Bar Council Remains Concerned Over Some Aspects of the Coroners and Justice Bill - The Bar Council

Posted on March 23, 2009
“The Coroners and Justice Bill begins its Report Stage in the House of Commons today. The Bar Council, and the Criminal Bar Association, have welcomed Government concessions in relation to information sharing and in putting the decision for an inquest to be held without a jury into the hands of judges rather than the Secretary [...

Cuts to forensic watchdog ?will cause miscarriages of justice? - The Independent

Posted on March 23, 2009
“Dozens of miscarriages of justice could occur in the next few months because the body that regulates expert witnesses in court is being shut down by the Government, senior scientists warned yesterday.” Full story The Independent, 22nd March 2009 Source: www...

Police accused of misusing terror laws against peaceful protests - The Guardian

Posted on March 23, 2009
“Laws intended for counter-terrorism are being misused in an increasingly heavy-handed approach to policing protests, a new parliamentary report warns today.” Full story  The Guardian, 23rd March 2009 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Right to privacy broken by a quarter of UK?s public databases, says report - The Guardian

Posted on March 23, 2009
“A quarter of all the largest public-sector database projects, including the ID cards register, are fundamentally flawed and clearly breach European data protection and rights laws, according to a report published today.” Full story The Guardian, 23rd March 2009 Source: www...

?Unfair? energy bill ban proposed - BBC News

Posted on March 23, 2009
“Energy companies will be banned from charging ‘unjustified’ prices under new rules proposed by the regulator Ofgem.” Full story  BBC News, 23rd March 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

£46 award for innocent man?s 27 years in prison - The Observer

Posted on March 23, 2009
“Sean Hodgson, who spent 27 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, has been given just £46 by the government with which to restart his life. The Prison Service has awarded the mentally ill former prisoner the equivalent of £1.70 for every year he was wrongly imprisoned...

Two stars of BBC?s Trawlermen series jailed in illegal fishing case - The Guardian

Posted on March 23, 2009
“Two stars of the BBC’s Trawlermen series have been jailed and fined £370,000 after they landed fish illegally.” Full story The Guardian, 23rd March 2009 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Regina v Balshaw - WLR Daily

Posted on March 20, 2009
Regina v Balshaw [2009] EWCA Crim 470; [2009] WLR (D) 102 “Where a person was convicted of an offence before the Crown Court, and was ordered to pay costs to the prosecutor, there was no principle that the order was proscribed where the costs were designed to compensate a third party...

Rottmann v Brittain; In re Rottmann (a bankrupt) - WLR Daily

Posted on March 20, 2009
Rottmann v Brittain; In re Rottmann (a bankrupt); [2009] WLR (D) 101 “The court had power to suspend the public examination of a bankrupt pursuant to s 290 of the Insolvency Act 1986 and order the examination to be conducted in private where foreign criminal proceedings had been instituted against the bankrupt...

King v Director of Serious Fraud Office - WLR Daily

Posted on March 20, 2009
King v Director of Serious Fraud Office [2009] UKHL 17; [2009] WLR (D) 100 “The Crown Court?s jurisdiction, under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005, to make a restraint and disclosure order following a request by a foreign prosecutor was restricted to property located within England and Wales...

Hatzl and another v XL Insurance Co Ltd - WLR Daily

Posted on March 20, 2009
Hatzl and another v XL Insurance Co Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 223; [2009] WLR (D) 99 “The word ‘defendant’ in art 31(1)(a) of the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road should be interpreted purposively so as to extend to the parties to the contract and to other parties to whom [...

Law firm staff win landmark TUPE claim - Law Society?s Gazette

Posted on March 20, 2009
“Firms winning legal service contracts from competitors could face a ?landslide? of six-figure claims for unfair dismissal if they do not take on staff on reasonable terms along with the contract, the winner of a landmark employment tribunal case said this week...

Important changes to the Knowledge of Life requirement for settlement applications - UK Border Agency

Posted on March 20, 2009
“Applications for settlement, in certain categories require the applicant to demonstrate that the Knowledge of Life in the UK (KOL) requirement has been met, before settlement can be granted.” Full press release UK Border Agency, 19th March 2009 Source: www...

New rules for skilled and highly skilled migrant workers - UK Border Agency

Posted on March 20, 2009
“The Immigration Rules covering highly skilled migrant workers will change on 31 March 2009, raising the academic and financial requirements of two categories in Tier 1 of the points-based system. At the same time, the resident labour market test will be strengthened to ensure that skilled jobs are advertised within the United Kingdom before they [...

Criminal justice measures to enhance fraud prosecutions to be introduced - Attorney General?s Office

Posted on March 20, 2009
“Criminal justice measures to enhance fraud prosecutions.” Full press reelase Attorney General’s Office, 18th March 2009 Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk  

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