“A woman firefighter who resorted to sleeping with her boss in a vain attempt to end a campaign of harassment against has received a payout from her former employers.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The UK will come under increasing pressure to ban all smacking and corporal punishment of children as the European human rights body steps up pressure for a change in the law.”
The Guardian, 25th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A teacher who put a ‘shocking’ child sex abuse video on a memory stick was caught after it was found by his pupils at a £1,200-a-term private school.”
BBC News, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A ‘militant atheist’ who left explicit images in a prayer room at Liverpool John Lennon Airport has been given a six-month suspended sentence.”
BBC News, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who was wrongly accused of training the September 11 attackers will be given compensation, the Ministry of Justice confirmed today.”
The Independent, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Three judges today awarded a London trader the £1.4 million bonus he was denied by his Dutch bank employers.”
The Independent, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Health and safety chiefs have welcomed a court ruling to jail a gas fitter for working without proper accreditation.”
BBC News, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A murderer who killed one of the country’s most notorious paedophiles while in a Cambridge prison has had his minimum jail term cut by 10 years.”
BBC News, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A sweet firm has been fined £300,000 after an employee was crushed to death in one of its machines.”
BBC News, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Five members of a family were found guilty today over the death of a man whose decapitated body was found in a lake. Michael Gilbert was kept as a slave and tortured for his benefit money before being killed. His headless body was dumped in the Blue Lagoon in Arlesey, Bedfordshire, last year.”
The Independent, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Former children’s services chief Sharon Shoesmith today lost her High Court battle over her sacking following the death of Baby P. Mr Justice Foskett, sitting in London, rejected accusations that her removal by Children’s Secretary Ed Balls was procedurally flawed, unfair and unlawful.”
The Independent, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Modjiri, R. v [2010] EWCA Crim 829 (22 April 2010)
Taylor & Ors v R. [2010] EWCA Crim 830 (22 April 2010)
High Court (Chancery Division)
MccArtney & Ors v Unite The Union & Anor [2010] EWHC 826 (Ch) (22 April 2010)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
TUV v Persons Unknown [2010] EWHC 853 (QB) (22 April 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“A fish and chip shop owner has been fined after his business passed a cheaper fish off as cod.”
BBC News, 22nd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teenager who killed a man and boasted about it on the social networking site Facebook has been detained for four years.”
BBC News, 22nd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A rail passenger has been jailed for five months for racially abusing a ticket inspector in Hertfordshire.”
BBC News, 22nd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“While the northern hemisphere is paralysed by the seismic shift that has caused the Icelandic volcano, Mt Eyjafjallajökull, to erupt, the case of the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) against Dr Simon Singh promises to have an equally seismic effect on the legal landscape of libel in the UK and the defence of fair comment – especially in the area of scientific debate.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd April 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
British Chiropractic Association v Singh
Court of Appeal
“A statement, made by a scientific journalist in a newspaper article, that there was ‘not a jot of evidence’ to support claims made by the British Chiropractic Association of certain medical benefits resulting from its members’ treatment of patients, was not an assertion of fact but a statement of opinion.”
The Times, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A man who befriended a woman over the internet then had sex with her autistic teenage daughter was today jailed for more than three years.”
The Independent, 22nd April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A tycoon fixer who is fighting a bitter divorce case from his estranged wife over claims that he has hidden his £400m fortune has been declared bankrupt by the taxman.”
The Independent, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A former child model was jailed for a minimum of 25 years today for battering to death a talented young doctor and robbing him to pay for a prostitute.”
The Guardian, 22nd April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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