“The government should place a cap on prison places to lessen overcrowding and stem the resources poured into building new jails, the former lord chief justice Lord Woolf said today.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Controversial revisions to mental health legislation will strike the right balance between improving patient safeguards and protecting the public, the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, said yesterday.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“To the outside world it must seem extraordinary that lawyers (of all people) signed a contract so apparently weighted in favour of the paymaster that the profession’s own contract lawyer advised them not to put pen to paper.”
The Times, 17th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Law Lords are to consider whether the cases of six Iraqi civilians who died at the hands of the British are subject to UK human rights law.”
BBC News, 17th April 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
No discrimination in ban on veil in classroom
Azmi v. Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council
Employment Appeal Tribunal
“A Muslim teaching assistant who had been suspended for disobeying an instruction not to wear a veil when assisting a male teacher was not discriminated against directly or indirectly on the ground of religion or belief.”
The Times, 17th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Whistleblower need not prove criminal or civil wrongdoing
Babula v. Waltham Forest College
Court of Appeal
“Where an employee made a claim for unfair dismissal asserting that the dismissal was to be regarded as automatically unfair because he had made a protected disclosure, it was sufficient that he reasonably believed the matters that he relied on amounted to a criminal offence, or founded a legal obligation. He did not have to be able to point to an actual criminal offence or to an actual legal obligation.”
The Times, 17th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner, Zahida Manzoor CBE, has today declared the Law Society’s complaints handling Plan for the period 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008 as adequate.”
Department for Constitutional Affairs press release, 17th April 2007
Source: www.gnn.gov.uk
“If there’s a theme to his coming year in office it has to be judge power. District Judge Michael Tennant favours judges having powers to enforce orders for contact with children when flouted by parents; he favours judges being in charge of a case from start to finish; and above all he would like more resources for the courts — although that one, he accepts, is likely to remain on his wish list.”
The Times, 17th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Competition Commission is struggling to find an expert to advise on planning issues, which form a key part of its inquiry into the grocery market.”
The Times, 17th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Mental health professionals and opposition parties have joined forces to resist wider powers to detain people with a mental disorder deemed to pose a danger to others.”
The Times, 17th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Alternative dispute resolution – sorting out libel actions without the crushing costs of High Court litigation – was given a new lease of life last month when Peter Ebdon, the former world snooker champion, arbitrated his libel action against The Times. It was the first time a case involving a defence of fair comment went to binding arbitration.”
The Times, 17th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Home Office has pledged to review the management of a privately run prison where an investigation by Guardian Films and the BBC uncovered routine bullying of staff by prisoners at the jail.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The powers of Home Office officials to discipline and order the segregation and restraint of prisoners in Britain’s private jails would be handed over to the prison companies under legislation to be debated today by the House of Lords.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A City banker was told to use her female charms to woo clients over candlelit dinners and was asked by her manager to do the washing-up at a business meal, an employment tribunal was told yesterday.”
The Times, 17th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Thousands of couples look set to be hit by a new Revenue clampdown which could leave their heirs with a bigger bill for inheritance tax (IHT).”
The Times, 17th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The welfare of children must be at the heart of the processes involved in considering whether to take a child into care, Family Justice Minister Harriet Harman will say today.”
Department for Constitutional Affairs press release, 17th April 2007
Source: www.gnn.gov.uk
“A partial amnesty for hundreds of thousands of tax evaders who hide money abroad will be announced this week, in a move expected to bring more than a billion pounds into the Treasury’s coffers.”
Financial Times, 16th April 2007
Source: www.ft.com
“The wrestlers have beaten the environmentalists in the latest round of the fight over the initials WWF.”
The Lawyer, 16th April 2007
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The selection and collation of information from several files held on a person does not necessarily count as processing of personal data, according to the Court of Appeal. The activity can escape the remit of the Data Protection Act.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th April 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“A trio of barristers from 20 Essex Street has secured a House of Lords ruling that could alter significantly the principles governing the way damages are measured for breach of contract.”
The Lawyer, 16th April 2007
Source: www.thelawyer.com
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