“The ‘draconian powers’ of social workers to order a child to be taken from a mother who turns out to be innocent is a cost to be paid to protect the vulnerable, appeal judges said today.”
The Independent, 2nd July 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Relocation: The Search for Common Principles – Speech by Lord Justice Thorpe at the London Metropolitan University 30th June 2010.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 1st July 2010
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“A court is to examine claims that a Labour Party election leaflet from former minister Phil Woolas linked an opponent to Muslim ‘extremists.’ “”
BBC News, 30th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Home Office says it is reviewing counter-terrorism laws after a European court decided the government could not appeal against a ruling that said random stop and searches were illegal.”
BBC News, 1st July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A drunken youth who sexually assaulted two teenage girls after jumping on their backs for a piggy back ride has been jailed.”
BBC News, 1st July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for life for murdering a care assistant he met on the internet, emptying her bank account and dumping her body in a suitcase.”
BBC News, 1st July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
High Court (Family Division)
HM (An Adult), PM v KH & Anor [2010] EWHC 1579 (Fam) (24 June 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Where defendants had been convicted of criminal offences under a statute enacted by Parliament which was unenforceable owing to a failure by the United Kingdom Government, before its enactment, to comply with a Directive from the European Community, it was not incumbent upon the Court of Appeal to re-open their cases out of time unless their convictions had given rise to any substantial injustice.”
WLR Daily, 1st July 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“British soldiers on active service abroad were not, as such, within the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom within the meaning of art 1 of the Human Rights Convention and were accordingly not protected by the Convention rights scheduled to the Human Rights Act 1998. Assuming, however, that the Convention did protect servicemen abroad, a inquest that complied with the procedural obligation in art 2 was not automatically required whenever a member of the armed forces died on active service.”
WLR Daily, 1st July 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Significant parts of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 took effect during the spring of this year. On 1 February section 59 was brought into force amending the Suicide Act 1961. For the old offence under section 2, there is now substituted a provision that ‘a person (D) commits an offence if (a) D does an act capable of encouraging or assisting the suicide or attempted suicide of another person and (b) D’s act was intended to encourage or assist suicide or an attempt at suicide’.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 1st July 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A primary school boy is appealing against his conviction for attempting to rape an eight-year-old girl in west London.”
BBC News, 1st July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A City trader has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after making £3m-worth of unauthorised trades.”
BBC News, 1st July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Villagers who formed a human barricade to stop travellers building a caravan site near their homes have suffered a further blow after the High Court granted permission for diggers to be brought on to the land.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st July 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Prof David Jones said that if society agrees that it is in some people’s interests for them to end their own lives, it is difficult to resist the logical conclusion that others should be helped to die even if they have not made such a request.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st July 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A solicitor has been cleared of trying to fraudulently sell the Ritz hotel in central London for £250m.”
BBC News, 1st July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The mother and stepfather of a seven-year-old girl who starved to death have been given the go-ahead to appeal against their sentences.”
BBC New,s 1st July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The coalition government is to test its unity by announcing that it plans to stage a referendum on voting reform next May, amid signs that Labour enthusiasm for the reform is wavering owing to the party’s growing hostility to the Liberal Democrats.”
The Guardian, 1st July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman was given a suspended jail sentence today after being convicted of keeping an illegal dog which killed her grandson.”
The Independent, 1st July 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
© Inner Temple Library 2024