“The Bar Council and the Criminal Bar Association have voiced their concerns about key elements of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill in a hard-hitting briefing sent to MPs this week.”
The Bar Council, 8th January 2008
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“MPs are expected to debate whether to abolish the ‘outdated’ blasphemy law.”
BBC News, 9th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A leaflet produced for a fashion and home catalogue has been criticised by the advertising watchdog for encouraging women to get into debt.”
BBC News, 9th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government has launched an inquiry into the way the national police DNA database is used to fight crime.”
BBC News, 9th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
In re D (a Child)(Abduction: Rights of custody) (No 2)
Court of Appeal
“A contact order which predated Romania’s accession to the European Union was not enforceable under Council Regulation 2201/2003 (Brussels II Revised) (OJ 2003 L33b/1).”
The Times, 9th January 2008
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.
Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Court of Appeal
“To establish that a hospital at which a suicide had been a detained mental patient was in breach of the right to life guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, the claimant had to show that at the time of the suicide the hospital knew or ought to have known of the existence of a real and immediate risk to her life from self-harm and that it failed to take measures which reasonably might have been expected to avoid that risk.”
The Times, 9th January 2008
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.
“Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, is to order a police drive against knife and gun crime following several attacks since the start of the year.”
The Independent, 9th January 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A magistrate who refused to deal with a Muslim woman wearing a veil has been reprimanded.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th January 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A water tank that burst, pouring boiling water over a baby, was fitted with a thermostat which the local council knew was prone to failure, an inquest jury has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th January 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Employees are being put under increasing strain because their bosses are using surveillance equipment to keep track of how hard they are working, a survey has found.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th January 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A British Airways check-in worker who was banned from wearing a Christian cross around her neck has lost her claim of religious discrimination.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th January 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The parents of a 17-year-old girl whose badly decomposed body was found in a river may have been trying to force her into marriage against her will, an inquest heard yesterday.”
The Guardian, 9th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A London dentist detained as he boarded a plane to Pakistan carrying night sights and computer discs full of military information was jailed yesterday for four and a half years.”
The Guardian, 9th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Cannabis is to be reclassified as a Class B drug after an official review this spring, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 9th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A government plan to monitor offenders more closely was in tatters last night after ministers scaled back an IT programme because costs had almost doubled to £512 million.”
The Times, 9th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A woman died while giving birth after a clerical error left her without specialist medical care, despite both her mother and her aunt having been killed by the same rare condition at exactly the same age, an inquest was told yesterday.”
The Times, 9th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A gang of Seventh-Day Adventists in London conned their fellow churchgoers into giving them millions of pounds to invest, which they then spent on luxury flats, holidays and cars, a court was told yesterday.”
The Times, 9th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The chief executive of media regulator Ofcom wants to expand his office’s powers with new laws that would make its programming sanctions as powerful as its advertising ones.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th January 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Employees who left a company to start up a rival breached that firm’s database rights when they took information with them, the High Court has ruled. The firm failed to prove, though, that the actions breached the company’s confidentiality.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th January 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
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