“Consumers have benefited from the first four years of the Legal Services Act, but there remains an ‘imbalance of power’ which acts to their detriment in dealing with lawyers.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th June 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Police will share local records about people through a new national database, the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) has said. A new database for England and Wales will be linked to an existing one covering Scotland, an NPIA spokesman said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th June 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
McKenzie v R. [2011] EWCA Crim 1550 (23 June 2011)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
County Leasing Ltd v Quotepool Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 705 (23 June 2011)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Paddico (267) Ltd v Kirklees Metropolitan Council & Ors [2011] EWHC 1606 (Ch) (23 June 2011)
High Court (Admiralty Division)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Environmental Protection (Controls on Ozone-Depleting Substances) Regulations 2011
The Assured Tenancies (Amendment of Rental Threshold) (Wales) Order 2011
The Energy Information Regulations 2011
The Armed Forces (Terms of Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
The Distress for Rent (Amendment) Rules 2011
The Wireless Telegraphy (Register) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2011
The Wireless Telegraphy (Mobile Spectrum Trading) Regulations 2011
The Food Additives (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“In national security deportation and exclusion cases before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission foreign nationals were entitled to the standard of procedural fairness contained in the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) Rules 2003, neither more nor less.”
WLR Daily, 21st June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Coventry City Council v O and others [2011] EWCA Civ 729; [2011] WLR (D) 205
“Where foster parents issued a notice of intention to adopt a child they were fostering, the local authority retained the power to remove the child from the foster parents’ home to the home either of other foster parents or of prospective adopters, under section 38 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.”
WLR Daily, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“An Essex man with epilepsy has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for causing the death of a young woman by dangerous driving.”
BBC News, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The treatment of Milly Dowler’s family in court has been branded ‘appalling’ by the Government’s victims’commissioner, Louise Casey.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th June 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man who sexually assaulted an 84-year-old widow in a ‘terrifying’ attack in her own home 24 years ago has been told he will be jailed.”
BBC News, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“MPs have agreed to a ban on the use of wild animals in circuses amid claims from the Conservative MP who led the campaign that Downing Street tried to bribe him with the prospect of a government job to get him to change his position.”
The Guardian, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers representing the work colleague with whom former Royal Bank of Scotland chief Sir Fred Goodwin had an affair has filed an appeal against a High Court judge’s decision that although the media must not identify her by name they could give her job description.”
The Independent, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A woman has been jailed for life after being convicted of murdering her estranged husband by bludgeoning him to death with a hammer.”
BBC News, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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