“A businessman ordered by a court to explain the disappearance of his alleged £400 million fortune after his wife filed for divorce may have faked a mental breakdown to escape jail, the High Court was told yesterday.”
The Times, 29th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A policeman who was filmed striking a woman on the legs during the G20 protests will appear in court next month charged with assault.”
The Times, 29th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The government seriously underestimated the number of psychiatric patients who would need to be forced to take medication, the BBC has learned.”
BBC News, 29th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Violent husbands and partners will be banned from returning to their homes under powers to be unveiled today by the home secretary, Alan Johnson.”
The Guardian, 29th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jack Straw will today pledge to put victims first in the criminal justice system as he launches the country’s first national programme to support them.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th September 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The partner of murdered Rachel Nickell said he had instructed lawyers to try to bring the police to account for their failings in the case.”
The Independent, 29th September 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Police errors and inaction were partly responsible for driving a vulnerable single mother to kill herself and her severely disabled daughter after years of abuse from youths, an inquest found today.”
The Guardian, 28th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2009
The London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2009
The Court Martial Appeal Court (Evidence) Order 2009
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Information and Code of Practice on Penalties) Order 2009
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Civil Penalties) Regulations 2009
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Entitlement to be Registered) Regulations 2009
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (National Identity Registration Number) Regulations 2009
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Provision of Information with Consent) Regulations 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“Two mothers from Buckinghamshire, who worked together as policewomen, have found themselves at the centre of a dispute over childcare rules – because they were babysitting each others’ children.”
BBC News, 28th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Attorney General Reference No 45 OF 2009 [2009] EWCA Crim 1759 (29 July 2009)
Smith, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 1795 (31 July 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org.uk
“Desmond Browne QC, Chairman of the Bar, will speak on the theme of ‘Human rights under threat abroad and at home’ at a fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference on Sunday.”
Bar Council, 28th September 2009
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“Today, as part of my series of podcasts for The College of Law Inside Track I talk to Jenny Rowe, the CEO of the new Supreme Court.”
Charon QC, 28th September 2009
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“Opportunistic city lawyers who over-charge their clients face tough new rules aimed at tackling the excesses and mismanagement of corporate law firms, under proposals to be published this week. The crackdown on the City’s legal profession comes after growing concerns that regulators have failed to deal with abuses at multi-million pound law firms.”
The Independent, 28th September 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“After decades of obsessive secrecy, supposedly to protect the interests of vulnerable children, the family courts will be required to open their doors a few centimetres wider as the Minister of Justice builds on rules introduced earlier this year that allowed some degree of media access but limited rights for them to report their observations.”
The Times, 28th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Controversial government plans to allow Jobcentre staff to ‘order’ benefit claimants to undergo tests for drug and alcohol dependency are in breach of European law and unlikely to work, according to leading addiction charities.”
The Guardian, 27th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Victims of stalking have been let down by the police in the past, a senior officer said today.”
The Independent, 28th September 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Plans to allow the media to name social workers in family court cases are being opposed strongly by judges and lawyers, who warn that the change could breach human rights laws. They have expressed ‘grave concerns’ that the latest tranche of reforms to open up the courts may drive away experts and violate children’s rights to privacy.”
The Times, 28th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The government has ordered a review of the case of two police officers who were told they had to stop looking after each others’ children or face prosecution.”
The Guardian, 28th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The son of a 106-year-old woman threatened with eviction from her care home as part of local council cost cutting has pledged to take her fight to the European Court of Human Rights.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th September 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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