“Details of coroners’ reports asking for organisations involved in deaths to take action to prevent further deaths are published by the Ministry of Justice today for the first time.”
Ministry of Justice, 15th July 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Simpler forms allowing you to choose someone now that you trust to make decisions on your behalf in the future if you lose your mental capacity have been presented to Parliament.”
Ministry of Justice, 15th July 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Legal Services Commission proposals to cut legal support for vulnerable children and families have been savaged in a damning report from the all-party Justice Select Committee.”
The Bar Council, 15th July 2009
source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
Statement: Kinsella killers’ sentences not to be referred as unduly lenient.”
Attorney General’s Office, 15th July 2009
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reprimanded five English NHS trusts over lax data protection regimes that resulted in the loss of 20,000 people’s personal data and the leaving of patients’ notes on a bus.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th July 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“A blackmailer who threatened to expose her Muslim friend as a terrorist sympathiser has been jailed.”
BBC News, 15th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Ian Blair has been cleared of misconduct over the award of police contracts valued at £3m to a friend.”
BBC News, 15th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Rupert Parsons’ mother is claiming £1.5 million in interim compensation for ‘wrongful birth’ on the grounds that the hospital should have picked up on his ‘severe, profound and multiple disabilities’ before the 20th week of her pregnancy.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Britain’s organised crime agency is being investigated by the police watchdog over concerns that it could have done more to prevent the gangland killing of a shopkeeper in an organised crime hotspot.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Thanks to a £56m renovation of Middlesex Guildhall, a dilapidated crown court in Parliament Square, the longstanding and peculiarly British tradition that has seen the country’s most senior court sitting in the same building as the legislature will come to an end.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Cases in the family courts involving celebrities’ children should be treated in the same way as those involving anyone else’s children, the senior family courts judge said yesterday.”
The Times, 16th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Prisoners are to be blocked from seeking legal aid to bring ‘trivial’ cases against the Prison Service under plans to be announced by the Government today.”
The Times, 16th July 2o09
Source; www.timesonline.co.uk
“A man cleared of rape after serving two years in jail has renewed a bid for £300,000 in damages from his accuser.”
BBC News, 15th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A doctor who inhaled ‘laughing gas’ while on duty at a children’s ward can continue to practise, the General Medical Council (GMC) has ruled.”
BBC News, 15th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The most senior judge in England and Wales has criticised the government for passing too many crime laws.”
BBC News, 15th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A pensioner who refused to pay his television licence fee for six years in protest over his claim that the BBC is ‘biased’ in its reporting has been fined £240.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Britain’s national intelligence and law-enforcement agency is being investigated by the police watchdog over concerns that it could have done more to prevent the gangland killing of a shopkeeper in an organised crime hotspot.”
The Guardian, 15th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A white supremacist who plotted to ignite racial violence by bombing people he regarded as ‘non-British’ has been found guilty of terrorism and explosives offences.”
The Times, 15th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
EA Gutridge & Ors v Sodexo & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 729 (14 July 2009)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v HH (Iraq) [2009] EWCA Civ 727 (14 July 2009)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Erskine, R v [2009] EWCA Crim 1425 (14 July 2009)
Coe, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 1452 (14 July 2009)
Gore, R v [2009] EWCA Crim 1424 (14 July 2009)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Chancery Division)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Service Departments Registers (Amendment) Order 2009
The Inspectors of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (No. 2) Order 2009
The Armed Forces, Army, Air Force and Naval Discipline Acts (Continuation) Order 2009
The Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2009
The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (Commencement No. 10) Order 2009
The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009
The Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2009
The Assured and Protected Tenancies (Lettings to Students) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2009
The Limited Liability Partnerships (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) (Amendment) Order 2009
The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Control Measures) (Amendment) Order 2009
The Financial Assistance Scheme (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
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