“The Government’s controversial Legal Services Bill is on the brink of becoming law after the long-awaited legislation finally passed through Parliament this week.”
Legal Week, 26th October 2007
Source: www.legalweek.com
“An inquest into the death of Gordon Gentle, whose mother, Rose, has become a figurehead for Britain’s antiwar movement, begins today.”
The Guardian, 29th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The Government of Wales Act 2006 (Approved European Body of Accountants) Order 2007
The Occupational Pension Schemes (EEA States) Regulations 2007
The Feed (Specified Undesirable Substances) (England) Regulations 2007
The Offender Management Act 2007 (Commencement No.1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“Lawyers for a British-Iraqi citizen who has been held in Iraq by British forces for three years on suspicion of terrorism will ask the House of Lords today to rule that his detention is unlawful and he should be returned to Britain. Hilal al-Jedda has been held since October 2004 without charge. Freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention is a ‘quintessentially British liberty,’ Lord Hoffmann, a law lord, declared in an earlier case.”
The Guardian, 29th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The constitutional relationship between England and the rest of the United Kingdom has been thrown to the centre of the next general election after senior Conservatives backed plans to strip Scottish MPs of the right to vote on English matters.”
The Times, 29th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Forty years after the Abortion Act came into effect, terminations in Britain are running at 450 a day.”
BBC News, 28th October 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A huge number of parking fines are being quashed because councils present poor evidence or no proof at all when challenged by drivers.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th October 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“When Vivien Symons retired 25 years ago after a lifetime working as a solicitor, she thought she had done with the law. But at the age of 89 she has returned to court to win one last case.”
The Times, 27th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“More than 16,000 crimes were committed in a year by offenders released early from jail, the Government has disclosed.”
The Independent, 27th October 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“British soldiers with serious brain injuries are being deliberately denied tens of thousands of pounds in damages, according to the mother whose son’s horrific wounds prompted the government’s recent review of compensation for casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
The Observer, 28th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Businesses, schools and hospitals in Britain are failing to prevent thousands of accidents and hundreds of avoidable deaths a year, according to a report today that has prompted calls for stricter health and safety laws.”
The Times, 29th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Care home owners are expected to defend their right to evict residents and maintain profits.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th October 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The attorney general is likely to lose the right to play a part in prosecution decisions but keep the job of government legal adviser in a shakeup of the role to restore public confidence, the Guardian has learned. The change will form part of Gordon Brown’s new constitutional settlement, along with other measures to increase public accountability which opened for consultation last week, including a bigger role for MPs in deciding whether to wage war.”
The Guardian, 29th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Agency workers could soon be given the same rights as permanent workers amid signs that the Government is giving in to union demands for greater rights for temporary staff.”
The Times, 29th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“One offence involving a knife is committed every 24 minutes of the day, new figures from 37 police forces revealed last night.”
The Independent, 28th October 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“There is a case for extending the 28-day limit on questioning suspected terrorists, the government’s terror legislation watchdog has said.”
BBC News, 28th October 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Northumbria Crown Prosecution Service has advised Northumbria Police that a photograph seized from an exhibition at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, is not an indecent image.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 26th October 2007
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
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