“The Home Office pathologist criticised for suggesting that the newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson died of a heart attack during the G20 protest behaved irresponsibly in a series of other autopsies, a disciplinary panel has ruled.”
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The Guardian, 25th August 2010
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“A couple who allowed their adopted children to be abused by two paedophiles were found guilty of child cruelty today.”
The Independent, 25th August 2010
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“Barry George, who was acquitted of the murder of television presenter Jill Dando, takes his battle for compensation to the High Court later.”
BBC News, 25th August 2010
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Regina v Varsani [2010] EWCA Crim 1938; [2010] WLR (D) 237
“Where an offender was convicted of being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of duty on counterfeit cigarettes, contrary to s 170 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, the reference to the retail price of cigarettes ‘of that description’ in s 5(1) of the Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979, as amended, by which the value of the duty was to be calculated, was to the retail price of genuine non-counterfeit cigarettes which were of the same description as the counterfeit ones on which the duty was evaded.”
WLR Daily, 24th August 2010
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Regina (B) v Islington London Borough Council [2010] WLR (D) 236
“The Education Act 1996 placed no obligation on a local authority to maintain a statement of special educational needs for a young person over the age of 19 or to fund him or her to continue in secondary education.”
WLR Daily, 24th August 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A pathologist at the centre of a row over a man’s death at the G20 protests will learn later if unconnected allegations against him have been proven.”
BBC News, 25th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Companies should have the power to defend themselves against employees’ criminal actions by proving that they took every measure to stamp out illegal practices, the Law Commission has proposed in a radical blueprint for reform.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th August 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Criminal laws dealing with many petty offences should be scrapped, according to the body responsible for reviewing the law in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 25th August 2010
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“Six white officers from the Metropolitan police’s controversial territorial support group (TSG) are to sue the force for racial discrimination, it emerged today.”
The Guardian, 24th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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