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Child knife crime views revealed - BBC News

Posted on March 16, 2009
“One in six young people in England and a third of those in London think knife crime is a problem, a survey suggests.” Full story BBC News, 15th March 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Baby P: Council chief Sharon Shoesmith ?sues for sexual discrimination? - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 16, 2009
“The senior council official who was sacked over her department’s handling of the Baby P case is suing for sexual discrimination, it has been claimed.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 15th March 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Paedophile alerts to be extended - BBC News

Posted on March 16, 2009
“A scheme giving parents details about sex offenders who may come into contact with their children is being extended.” Full story BBC News, 15th March 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Ban them! How Pete and Dud fell foul of the law yet still escaped prosecution - The Guardian

Posted on March 16, 2009
“It started out as a private joke between Peter Cook and Dudley Moore but within a few years no fewer than four British police forces were demanding the two comics be prosecuted for obscenity.” Full story The Guardian, 16th March 2009 Source: www...

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Outrage at ruling on helmets for cyclists - The Independent

Posted on March 16, 2009
“Britain’s cyclists reacted in uproar yesterday to a High Court ruling that they can be blamed for their injuries if they don’t wear a helmet ? even if the accident itself was caused by someone else.” Full story The Independent, 16th March 2009 Source: www...

?Gents, divorce now - you?ll save a bundle? - The Times

Posted on March 16, 2009
“Raymond Tooth is a divorce lawyer known as ‘Jaws’: he has some advice for both sexes in the current economic climate.” Full story The Times, 15th March 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Lord Turner to unveil banking crackdown - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 16, 2009
“Lord Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, will unveil proposals to tighten up financial regulations surrounding banks, hedge funds and tax havens when he publishes his blueprint for international regulation on Wednesday.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 15th March 2009 Source: www...

Rape complaints were not classified as crimes by police - The Guardian

Posted on March 16, 2009
“The Metropolitan police failed to investigate scores of rape allegations because officers did not record them as criminal offences, the Guardian has learned.” Full story The Guardian, 16th March 2009 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Michael Mansfield, QC, to give up court work - The Times

Posted on March 16, 2009
“Britain?s best-known barrister is hanging up his wig after more than 40 years in the criminal courts ? leaving a vacancy at the Bar for a big personality to champion the underdog and unpopular causes” Full story The Times, 14th March 2009 Source: www...

Criminal asset measures ?failing? - BBC News

Posted on March 16, 2009
“Former Home Secretary David Blunkett has told the BBC that laws intended to help strip criminals of illegally obtained assets are failing to deliver.” Full story BBC News, 15th March 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Names of misbehaving judges ?should be made public? - The Guardian

Posted on March 16, 2009
“An attempt to force the names of misbehaving judges into the open will be launched tomorrow in a groundbreaking freedom of information case.” Full story The Guardian, 16th March 2009 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Jack Straw spent £75 million on temporary cells - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 16, 2009
“A scheme to house prisoners in police stations because of prison overcrowding has cost taxpayers £75 million.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 14th March 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on March 16, 2009
The Fixed Penalty Offences Order 2009 The Road Safety (Financial Penalty Deposit) (Appropriate Amount) Order 2009 The Road Safety (Immobilisation, Removal and Disposal of Vehicles) Regulations 2009 The Fixed Penalty (Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 The Fixed Penalty (Procedure) (Vehicle Examiners) Regulations 2009 The Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Fees) Regulations 2009 The Mutual Societies (Transfers) Order 2009 The Financial Services and [...

Teenager seeks damages over operation on wrong finger - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 16, 2009
“A schoolboy awoke from surgery to remove a lump from his finger to discover the wrong one had been operated on.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

?Drop hacker case? - Terry Waite - BBC News

Posted on March 16, 2009
“Human rights campaigner and former hostage Terry Waite has called on the US to drop charges against British computer hacker Gary McKinnon.” Full story BBC News, 16th March 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Dragons? Den winner infringed own patent, IPO rules - OUT-LAW.com

Posted on March 16, 2009
“A man whose invention caught the attention of millions of television viewers may have infringed a patent he applied for himself 10 years ago. A contestant on the Dragons’ Den TV programme may have to defend his invention from legal action...

Father in court for giving boy a ?good talking to? - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 16, 2009
“A young father was convicted of unlawful imprisonment after he put a young tearaway into his car and gave him a ‘good talking to’.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Judge calls for end to use of ?honour killings? term - The Times

Posted on March 16, 2009
“A senior judge has called for an end to the use of the phrase ‘honour killings’ to describe what is ‘in reality sordid, criminal behaviour’.” Full story The Times, 16th March 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Trio jailed for beating teenager - BBC News

Posted on March 13, 2009
“Three men have been jailed at the Old Bailey for attacking a teenager who was later stabbed to death.” Full story BBC News, 13th March 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Artist must pay £7,000 back to ex-lover who funded her career - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 13, 2009
“A man who funded his former lover’s career, buying her jewellery, meals, and paying her household bills, has won a £7,000 payout after he sued her for the return of his money.” Full story  Daily Telegraph, 13th March 2009 Source: www...

Stansted legal challenge defeated - The Times

Posted on March 13, 2009
“Campaigners have lost their High Court battle to block the expansion of Stansted Airport.” Full story The Times, 13th March 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Revealed: Taxi driver rapist John Worboys is Britain?s worst sex attacker - The Times

Posted on March 13, 2009
“A London cab driver who scoured the streets of London at night looking for vulnerable women to drug and assault is Britain’s worst sex attacker, The Times can reveal. John Worboys was today found guilty of 21 charges, including the rape of a woman, but is thought to have attacked more than 200 women during [...

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted on March 13, 2009
Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Cobham Hire Services Ltd v Eeles [2009] EWCA Civ 204 (13 March 2009) Sinclair v Glatt [2009] EWCA Civ 176 (13 March 2009) Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) Williams, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 107 (27 February 2009) Wayne, R...

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on March 13, 2009
The Energy Act 2008 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2009 The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Amendment) (England) Order 2009 The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (West Berkshire) Designation Order 2009 The Driving Standards Agency Trading Fund (Maximum Borrowing etc...

Youell v La Reunion Aerienne - WLR Daily

Posted on March 13, 2009
Youell v La Reunion Aerienne [2009] EWCA Civ 175; [2009] WLR (D) 95 “Where a court could otherwise determine the substance of a claim, the mere fact that the claim was the subject of an arbitration agreement did not deprive the court of its jurisdiction under Council Regulation (EC) 44/2001 on jurisdiction and the recognition and [...

Bovale Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another - WLR Daily

Posted on March 13, 2009
Bovale Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another [2009] EWCA Civ 171; [2009] WLR (D) 94 “A judge had no power to alter the Civil Procedure Rules either by a judgment or practice direction or to vary or alter any practice direction which was binding on the court to which it [...

Proceedings brought by Gottfried Heinrich - WLR Daily

Posted on March 13, 2009
Proceedings brought by Gottfried Heinrich (Case C ? 345/06) [2009] WLR (D) 93 “The annex to Commission Regulation (EC) 622/2003 laying down measures for the implementation of the common basic standards on aviation security, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) 68/2004, had no binding force in so far as it sought to impose obligations on individuals [...

R (Perinpanathan) v City of Westminster Magistrates? Court - WLR Daily

Posted on March 13, 2009
R (Perinpanathan) v City of Westminster Magistrates? Court; [2009] WLR (D) 92 “In exercising its power under s 64(1) Magistrates? Court Act 1980 to make ’such order as to costs … as it thinks just and reasonable’ a magistrates? court was entitled, when dismissing forfeiture proceedings, to take into account its view that the application had [...

Ofulue v Bossert - WLR Daily

Posted on March 13, 2009
Ofulue v Bossert [2009] UKHL 16; [2009] WLR (D) 91 “An offer by a squatter to buy the property from the owners in a letter marked ‘without prejudice’ could not be used as evidence that she had acknowledged the owners? title to the property so as to defeat her claim to adverse possession...

Service of Northern Ireland; M v Same - WLR daily

Posted on March 13, 2009
Service of Northern Ireland; M v Same [2009] UKHL 15; [2009] WLR(D) 90 “The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (’RIPA’) permitted covert surveillance of communications between lawyers and their clients covered by legal professional privilege and notwithstanding any statutory rights of persons in custody to consult privately with their lawyers...

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