“New civil legal aid fees may have to be scrapped in light of the appeal court’s ruling last week that the Legal Services Commission’s (LSC) unified contract is unlawful.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 6th December 2007
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Government is supporting a proposal to close 15 women’s jails and replace them with a network of small custodial units that will allow female prisoners to be held closer to home.”
The Times, 7th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A proposal to use a new Government Bill to simplify immigration law has received positive feedback, the Home Office revealed today.”
Home Office press release, 6th December 2007
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Lawyers have long argued that there is absolute protection against the publication of legally privileged advice. Robert Verkaik, Law Editor, finds a case which challenges this.”
The Independent, 7th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“MPs are considering changes to the law that would make chief executives directly responsible for safeguarding the public’s personal data and make the improper or careless treatment of personal information a criminal offence.”
The Times, 7th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Senior Labour officials were voicing hostility to the way the law on political donations was being enforced around the time that David Abrahams began making secret payments to the party, The Times can disclose today.”
The Times, 7th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The former owner of a museum of Victorian curiosities is suing the auction house that sold it for turning down a £1 million offer from the artist Damien Hirst.”
The Times, 6th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A man found guilty of the ‘Lady in the Lake’ murder of his wife is to appeal against his conviction.”
BBC News, 6th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Five senior judges are to be trained in how to handle the media so that they can explain controversial sentencing decisions, peers have been told.”
BBC News, 6th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman has been found guilty of poisoning her husband in an attempt to confuse him while she stole £43,000 from his mother.”
BBC News, 6th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Litigation lawyers have been cautious in welcoming proposed reforms aimed at cutting the length and cost of complex commercial court cases.”
The Times, 6th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The time-honoured complaints of communication, costs and delay still top the list. But the Solicitors Regulatory Authority is determined to improve things.”
The Times, 6th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Brighton and Hove is to become the first British city to prohibit art that incites racist, homophobic or sectarian violence.”
The Times, 6th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Government wants to increase the period police can detain terror suspects without charge to 42 days, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said today.”
The Independent, 6th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The serial killer nurse Beverly Allitt must serve a minimum of 30 years in jail for the murder and abuse of children in her care, the high court ruled today.”
The Guardian, 6th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A 23-year-old former Heathrow shop assistant who called herself the ‘lyrical terrorist’ and scrawled her extremist thoughts on till receipts has been handed a nine-month suspended jail sentence.”
The Guardian, 6th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lord Carter’s review of prisons, which gives options for improving the balance between the supply of prison places and demand for them and recommendations on how this could be achieved.”
Securing the Future: Proposals for the efficient and sustainable use of custody in England and Wales (PDF)
Ministry of Justice, 5th December 2007
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“Restrictions imposed on adducing evidence and cross-examination as to a complainant’s sexual history by section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 continued to apply to trials after the coming into force of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, in respect of offences allegedly committed before that date, even though there was no express saving provision to that effect.”
The Times, 6th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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