“We have launched a consultation on a new Code of Conduct for barristers, which includes our proposals for regulating new types of business structure.”
Bar Standards Board, 20th March 2012
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
“A former Kwik Fit mechanic who killed an eight-year-old boy while driving a customer’s Porsche 911 has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.”
The Guardian, 20th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The advertising watchdog has cleared publicity material for the NSPCC after complaints that its reference to child abuse was ‘disturbing and offensive’.”
BBC News, 21st March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Tangled web, this one, but an important one. Many will remember George Galloway’s Mariam Appeal launched in response to sanctions imposed on Iraq in 1998, and the famous picture of GG with Saddam Hussein. Well, the Appeal was then inquired into by the Charity Commission, and this case concerns an attempt by a journalist, unsuccessful so far, to get hold of the documents which the Inquiry saw. But the Commission took the 5th amendment – or rather, in UK terms, a provision in the Freedom of Information Act (s.32(2))which exempted from disclosure any document placed in the custody of or created by an inquiry. Cue Article 10 ECHR, and in particular the bits which include the freedom to receive information.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 21st March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The curious episode of the juror asked to withdraw from a crown court case because she was wearing a niqab, or full veil, raises a number of questions.”
The Guardian, 20th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An ad campaign claiming that it is ‘eco-friendly to wear fur’ has been banned, after the advertising watchdog dismissed assertions that choosing fur is good because it ‘lasts a lifetime’ and ‘helps conservation’.”
The Guardian, 21st March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Just 20 per cent of the people nominated for the honorary QC title in the past three years were women, The Lawyer can reveal.”
The Lawyer, 20th March 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC MP has agreed to transfer the conduct of prosecutions from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department of Health (DH) to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).”
Attorney General’s Office, 20th March 2012
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“No sooner had HLE published a post on the joke (in every sense) trial of Paul Chambers than another story appears which leaves one wondering how many in officialdom have even heard of free speech, let alone understood it.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 20th March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
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