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Why only radical reform will regain the public?s confidence - The Times

Posted on December 18, 2008
“The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes illustrates dramatically a serious flaw in the framework governing coroners? investigations ? the inclusion in inquest findings of short-form verdicts such as accidental death, misadventure, natural causes, lawful killing and unlawful killing...

Rapist caught by DNA given life - BBC News

Posted on December 18, 2008
“A 55-year-old man whose DNA linked him to two sex attacks committed nine years apart has been jailed for life.” Full story BBC News, 17th December 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Law lords back ?post-nuptial? divorce settlements - The Independent

Posted on December 18, 2008
“England’s highest judges have given rich people who marry someone poorer a way to avoid an expensive divorce. In future, husbands will be urged to wait until after the honeymoon to negotiate a ‘post-nuptial’ deal. If it is signed without pressure and with legal advice, judges will treat it as binding...

Girlfriend who falsely cried rape is jailed - Daily Telegraph

Posted on December 18, 2008
“A woman who tried to frame two men for rape after a row with her boyfriend has been jailed for four months.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 18th December 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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Rap fan given Asbo - Daily Telegraph

Posted on December 18, 2008
“A man has been given an Asbo for playing loud rap music for up to 22 hours a day.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 18th December 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Madonna backtracks on ?inaccurate and misleading? divorce payout statement - The Times

Posted on December 18, 2008
“Madonna claimed today that a statement issued by her own spokeswoman that she had agreed to pay £60 million to her former husband Guy Ritchie as part of the couple’s divorce was ‘misleading and inaccurate’.” Full story The Times, 17th December 2008 source: www...

Gay father hunts for lesbian mother who vanished with son - The Times

Posted on December 18, 2008
“A gay father whose son was ’snatched’ away by his lesbian mother during family court proceedings was finally able to appeal publicly for his safe return yesterday after restrictions on identifying the parties was lifted.” Full story The Times, 18th December 2008 Source: www...

Father guilty over children?s crash deaths - The Guardian

Posted on December 18, 2008
“A father was yesterday convicted of causing the deaths of four of his children when the Land Rover he had ‘incompetently’ modified plunged into a river.” Full story The Guardian, 18th December 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Legal move to crack down on climate protesters - The Guardian

Posted on December 18, 2008
“The attorney general is considering asking the courts to clamp down on high-profile, direct-action protests on issues such as climate change, the Guardian can exclusively reveal.” Full story The Guardian, 18th December 2008 Source: www.guardian...

Police shamed into apology after Robert Napper admits killing Rachel Nickell - The Times

Posted on December 18, 2008
“The Metropolitan Police have issued an humiliating public apology to the man wrongly accused of murdering Rachel Nickell, after a convicted rapist admitted killing her in a frenzied knife attack on Wimbledon Common 16 years ago.” Full story The Times, 18th December 2008 Source: www...

Church murder teenagers jailed - BBC News

Posted on December 18, 2008
“Two teenage boys have been jailed for life for the unprovoked murder of a 44-year-old father in a churchyard attack.” Full story BBC News, 18th December 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

UK consults on copyright reform - OUT-LAW.com

Posted on December 17, 2008
“The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is asking whether laws on copyright exceptions and the current system for rights clearance are too complicated. A consultation on reforming the regime was published today.” Full story OUT-LAW.com, 16th December 2008 Source: www...

Gowers attacks Government plan to extend copyright for performers - OUT-LAW.com

Posted on December 17, 2008
“The Government plans to extend the term of copyright for performers from 50 years to ’something like 70 years,’ according to Culture Secretary Andy Burnham. That proposal was criticised today as ’silly and out of touch’ by former FT editor Andrew Gowers...

Man jailed for houseboat killing - BBC News

Posted on December 17, 2008
“A 55-year-old man has been jailed for stabbing his partner to death on their houseboat on the River Medway in Kent.” Full story BBC News, 17th December 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Brothers lose appeal over murder - BBC News

Posted on December 17, 2008
“Two Somerset men jailed for life for killing a Cornish couple have lost their appeal against their convictions.” Full story BBC News, 17th December 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Breast cancer mother cleared of allowing son to truant - Daily Telegraph

Posted on December 17, 2008
“A mother fighting breast cancer has been cleared of failing to send her son to school after a court was told the teenager stayed at home to look after her.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Killer nurse to appeal conviction - BBC News

Posted on December 17, 2008
“A hospital nurse who was found guilty of murdering two of his patients is to appeal against his conviction.” Full story BBC News, 17th December 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Jailed fan ?can get free pardon? - BBC News

Posted on December 17, 2008
“Jailed Liverpool fan Michael Shields has won an important battle at the High Court in London in his bid for a free pardon.” Full story BBC News, 17th December 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

British opt-out from 48-hour working week defeated in Strasbourg - The Times

Posted on December 17, 2008
“Britain?s opt-out from the EU?s 48-hour working week was soundly defeated in a vote by the European Parliament today, with many Labour MEPs voting against the Government?s attempts to keep the measure first won by John Major in 1993.” Full story The Times, 17th December 2008 Source: www...

Glasgow airport car bomber jailed for 32 years - The Guardian

Posted on December 17, 2008
“An NHS doctor who plotted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow was today sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 32 years.” Full story The Guardian, 17th December 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted on December 17, 2008
Court of Appeal (Civil Division) MA v Merck Sharp & DOHME Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 1426 (16 December 2008) Animatrix Ltd & Ors v O’Kelly [2008] EWCA Civ 1415 (16 December 2008) Calvert v William Hill Credit Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 1427 (16 December 2008) Allan v Johnson Controls Automative (UK) Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 1377 (16 December 2008) Smith [...

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on December 17, 2008
The Health in Pregnancy Grant (Administration) Regulations 2008 The Legal Services Act 2007 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitory Provisions) Order 2008 The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 7) Regulations 2008 The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (No...

T Mobile (UK) Ltd and another v Office of Communications - WLR Daily

Posted on December 17, 2008
T Mobile (UK) Ltd and another v Office of Communications [2008] EWCA Civ 1373; [2008] WLR (D) 391 “A challenge to a the decision of the Office of Communications (’Ofcom’) concerning the award of wireless telegraphy licences lay by way of a claim for judicial review and not an appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (’CAT’)...

R v Mayers; R v Glasgow; R v Costelloe; R v Bahmanzadeh; R v P and others - WLR Daily

Posted on December 17, 2008
R v Mayers; R v Glasgow; R v Costelloe; R v Bahmanzadeh; R v P and others [2008] EWCA Crim 1418; [2008] WLR (D) 390 “In relation to criminal proceedings there was no power, whether under the Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Act 2008 or otherwise, to admit statements of anonymous witnesses made otherwise than in oral [...

Finch and another v Richardson - WLR Daily

Posted on December 17, 2008
Finch and another v Richardson [2008] EWHC 3067 (QB); [2008] WLR (D) 389 “For the purposes of provisions in the Representation of the People Act 1983 in relation to illegal practices and to errors or false statements in declarations, ignorance of the law could constitute ‘inadvertence’ so as to provide an excuse for such errors and [...

R v Goldshield Group plc and others - WLR Daily

Posted on December 17, 2008
R v Goldshield Group plc and others [2008] UKHL 17; [2008] WLR (D) 388 “An allegation of price fixing carried out in circumstances of secretive and deceptive behaviour was insufficient of itself to found a charge of conspiracy to defraud. It was necessary to isolate and charge specific aggravating elements which would elevate price fixing into [...

Earl Cadogan and Another v Sportelli and Another and Other Appeals - Times Law Reports

Posted on December 17, 2008
Earl Cadogan and Another v Sportelli and Another and Other Appeals House of Lords “Landlords and freeholders were generally not entitled to so-called ‘hope value’ as an element in the value of their interest in determining the price payable by the tenants for leasehold enfranchisement...

Government announcement on Transparency in the Family Courts - Judiciary of England and Wales

Posted on December 17, 2008
“Statement by the President of the Family Division - ‘I welcome the publication of the Government’s announcement on taking forward the issue of transparency in the family courts. The revised proposals will require a good deal of work in the coming months to make the necessary rule changes and in preparing for the pilots...

Common sense approaches to dealing with crime and DNA - Home Office

Posted on December 17, 2008
“In a speech, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith called for new ‘common sense standards’ for the use of investigatory powers and the retention of DNA profiles.” Full press release Home Office, 16th December 2008 Source: www.homeoffice...

Government set to expand DNA sampling of serious offenders - The Times

Posted on December 17, 2008
“DNA samples are to be taken from serious offenders who are in prison but were convicted before the national database was created, Jacqui Smith announced yesterday.” Full story The Times, 17th December 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

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