“The Government will try to head off legal challenges to nationalisation from Northern Rock shareholders by appointing an independent arbitrator to value the battered lender.”
The Independent, 18th February 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills look set to fight out their divorce settlement in public after failing yesterday to reach a deal.”
The Times, 19th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The brother of a man who is thought to have killed himself and his mother-in-law while awaiting trial will not lose his £200,000 bail bond.”
BBC News, 18th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Plans are due to go ahead for thousands of trials a year to be prosecuted by non-lawyers, even though the paralegals themselves say that they are insufficiently trained, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 19th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An international website that claims to blow the whistle on corporate and governmental fraud vowed yesterday to defy attempts by a US court to close it down. Wikileaks allows whistleblowers to anonymously post documents in an attempt to expose corruption and wrongdoing. Its owners said yesterday that a Californian judge had ordered that the site be taken offline last week, after an injunction from a Swiss bank.”
The Guardian, 19th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lord Carlile’s report on the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 analyses the operation of the control order system in 2007 and concludes that he ‘would have reached the same decision as the Secretary of State in each case in which a control order has been made, so far as the actual making of the order is concerned’.”
Home Office press release, 18th February 2008
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Related link: Lord Carlile’s third independent report (PDF)
“This week plans come before the House of Lords to expand the powers of Crown Prosecution Service caseworkers to handle a wide range of magistrates’ courts cases. It may be logical to argue that deploying these so-called designated case workers or DCWs for minor cases will free more experienced and qualified lawyers for more serious work. Yet inherently it means that the quality of representation for the prosecution will decline – because we are prepared to pay only junior staff to handle cases in the lower courts.”
The Times, 19th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The first person in Gwynedd to be tasered by North Wales Police was a 15-year-old youth, a court has heard.”
BBC News, 18th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Nottingham city council today agreed to pay damages to a teenage mother after admitting it acted unlawfully by taking away her newborn baby.”
The Guardian, 18th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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