“The cost of the Labour deputy leadership contest threatened to bring further embarrassment for the government today as it emerged that another cabinet minister has been reprimanded over an illegal donation.”
The Guardian, 25th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Kurdish asylum seeker who has been living in Britain for eight years and whose wife is expecting their first baby is due to be deported today.”
The Guardian, 25th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has said that employment tribunals do not have to back a fired employee’s story simply because the employer fails to prove its opposing case.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th April 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Secretary of State for the Home Department v AF (No 3)
Queen’s Bench Division
“Fair trial provisions guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights could not be overcome by a claim that the offended party’s case had no possible chance of success.”
The Times, 25th April 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.
“Roger Smith reflects on a bungled attempt by the government to expedite deportations to countries with dubious human rights records.“
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th April 2008
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A nursery school head who force-fed children, dragged them along corridors and left them in soiled underwear has been banned from working as a teacher.”
BBC News, 24th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who abducted, sexually attacked and strangled a young, female, Royal Navy photographer has won a two-year reduction in his minimum tariff.”
BBC News, 24th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman who lured a faith healer back to Luton, where he was later murdered, has been jailed for two years.”
BBC News, 24th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Nottingham teenager convicted of murdering a man at a bus stop has had his 14 year minimum jail sentence cut.”
BBC News, 24th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A mother has been jailed and her daughter given a community order after being found guilty of harassing a gay couple in Kent.”
BBC News, 24th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“MPs are to debate a bill calling for a ban on advertising junk food and drinks to children.”
BBC News, 24th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“In his long history of legal calamity, David Irving has confronted and lost to courtroom adversaries from the publisher Penguin, to a British Second World War convoy commander, to the Austrian state. To that list can now be added Jennie Allen, the 60-year-old owner of a B&B in the genteel London suburb of Kew.”
The Independent, 25th April 2008
Source: www.indpendent.co.uk
“The Office of Fair Trading has accused tobacco manufacturers and retailers, including the UK’s biggest supermarkets, of acting unlawfully over the price of tobacco products.”
The Times, 25th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Prison Service yesterday agreed to pay more than £120,000 to prisoners who said they had suffered beatings and racial discrimination by prison officers, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 25th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Anti-terrorism legislation was condemned as poorly thought-out by a senior High Court judge yesterday as he declared that the Treasury’s powers to freeze suspects’ bank accounts were unlawful.”
The Times, 25th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Crime is falling in England and Wales at an accelerating rate, according to figures from police forces published yesterday.”
The Times, 25th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Banks have been accused of trying to block compensation claims from customers, after they refused to accept the findings of a High Court test case on penalty charges.”
The Times, 25th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Yesterday’s court rulings highlight the delicate relationship between the executive and the judiciary — one in which judges increasingly hold ministers to account, and find them wanting.”
The Times, 25th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Serious Fraud Office is to challenge the ruling that it must rethink the halting of its investigation into a £43 billion arms deals between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia.”
The Times, 25th April, 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Rules imposed under UN laws to enable the freezing of terror suspects’ assets are not lawful because they ‘bypassed’ Parliament, the High Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 24th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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