“A government plan to tackle hate crime is launched today with the key message to ‘challenge it, report it, stop it’. Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone unveiled the plan as she addressed a hate crime conference organised by the association of chief police officers (ACPO) in Birmingham.”
Home Office, 14th March 2012
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The Bar Standards Board today confirmed the timetable for assessing the impact of past reappointment procedures for Council of the Inns of Court tribunal members.”
Bar Standards Board, 15th March 2012
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
“Same-sex couples have moved a step closer to the right to marry in a civil ceremony. The Home Office today launched a consultation on how to allow everyone to have a civil marriage.”
Home Office, 15th March 2012
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Welsh Ministers v. RWE Npower Renewables Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 311, reversing RWE Npower Renewables v. Welsh Ministers & Swansea Council [2011] EWHC 1778 (Admin). In my previous post on this case, I summarised the judge’s findings as to why this Planning Inspector had gone wrong at the wind farm inquiry. The Inspector turned down the appeal because the positioning of individual turbines might lead to damage to deep deposits of peat found on this site. The judge, Beatson J, thought the inspector had not explained his reasons for his conclusions in sufficiently clear a form. Nor did the Inspector give the wind farm developer an opportunity to deal with his concerns. So said the judge. But the Court of Appeal disagreed – showing how it is not easy to ‘call’ the merits of these reasons challenges.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th March 2012
“The European Court of Human Rights held that the suspension of a GP from the Primary Care Trust (PCT) Performers List did not violate his right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions under Article 1 Protocol 1 (A1P1) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court declined to decide whether there was a possession that could be interfered with in this case, but held that suspension did not affect Dr Malik.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The quality of psychological experts and their reports, presented at family court proceedings in the UK, show some inconsistencies according to new research carried out by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan).”
Family Law Week, 14th March 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Lancashire Constabulary has become the first UK police force to be fined by the UK data protection watchdog after it lost a document containing information about a 15 year old girl who had been raped.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Network Rail has been fined £1m after admitting health and safety breaches over the deaths of two girls at an Essex level crossing. Friends Olivia Bazlinton, 14, and Charlotte Thompson, 13, were hit by a train in December 2005 as they crossed the railway line at Elsenham station and died instantly.”
BBC News, 15th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Charlotte Church’s libel action in relation to a story in the People that she drunkenly proposed to her boyfriend can be heard after Mirror Group Newspapers failed in a high court application to get her case struck out.”
The Guardian, 15th March 2012
Soruce: www.guardian.co.uk
“The European court of human rights had a chance to strengthen the right to protest. Instead, it set a dangerous precedent.”
The Guardian, 15th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Dr Liam Fox, the former defence secretary, has been ordered to repay £3,000 in parliamentary expenses for allowing his unofficial adviser to use his taxpayer-funded second home rent-free.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A nurse who was filmed accidentally switching off the ventilator of a paralysed man has been struck off.”
BBC News, 15th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Proposals to examine the current dismissal process have been announced by the Government today with the publication of a Call for Evidence. Ministers are to seek the views of employers and employees, and gather evidence from interested parties, on whether current dismissal procedures are too onerous, too complex and whether or not there is a lack of understanding in their application.”
Department for Business Innovation and Skills, 15th March 2012
Source: www.bis.gov.uk
“Some of UK’s most popular online retailers will be forced to stop selling VAT-free CDs and DVDs after high court ruling.”
The Guardian, 15th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A reconstituted Press Complaints Commission should be subject to oversight by the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom if the press cannot agree a credible package of reforms, a special cross-party committee of MPs and peers set up by the prime minister will recommend in the next few days. The recommendation – a brush with statutory regulation for the first time in over 300 years – is understood to be one of the recommendations agreed on Monday at a stormy final session of parliament’s privacy and injunctions committee, a joint Commons and Lords body created by David Cameron just over a year ago.”
The Guardian, 15th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Times newspaper failed to tell a High Court judge that one of its journalists had obtained information illegally because of fears that he would be prosecuted if he told the truth, the Leveson Inquiry heard yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A French porter who was called ‘Inspector Clouseau’ by colleagues at Royal College of General Practitioners is in line for a five-figure harassment payout.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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