“Anna Heenan, solicitor and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the April financial remedies and divorce news and cases.”
Full story
Family Law Week, 12th May 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Court of appeal rejects application by David Norris to appeal against conviction for 1993 racist murder.”
Full story
The Guardian, 10th May 2013
Soruce: www.guardian.co.uk
“A father has been jailed for seven years after admitting killing his disabled seven-month-old son. Nathan Pick, 38, lashed out at the baby, James-Lee, because he could not get him to stop screaming.”
Full story
The Guardian, 10th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Newspaper owners have backed down on demands to have a veto over the board members of any new press regulator.”
Full story
BBC News, 10th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A doctor who worked at Aberystwyth’s Bronglais hospital has been struck off for six months after sending flirtatious texts messages.”
Full story
BBC News, 10th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A dental nurse who was given a written warning by bosses for eating an apple has won a case for constructive dismissal against the surgery.”
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 9th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Taxpayers were last night facing a legal bill of at least £100,000 after a long-standing compensation row involving a female police officer who cut her thumb while on duty.”
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 10th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Hospitals that give false information about death rates will face unlimited fines under new powers aimed at preventing another Mid-Staffordshire-style health scandal.”
Full story
The Guardian, 10th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ex-minister and former wife released after serving a quarter of sentences for perverting course of justice.”
Full story
The Guardian, 13th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A defence solicitor who secured more than £500,000 in damages from a police force after he was wrongly arrested says officers mounted a ‘vendetta’ against him.”
Full story
The Independent, 11th May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A couple who filled their home with junk have been given suspended prison sentences for child cruelty.”
Full story
BBC News, 10th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Archbishop of York John Sentamu is setting up an independent inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse made against a Church of England cleric.”
Full story
BBC News, 12th may 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Jamie Starbuck, 36, was jailed for life after admitting murdering and disposing of his wife Debbie’s body before fleeing Britain.”
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 11th may 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Lord Carlile of Berriew QC said that plans due to be put before Parliament by
Lord Falconer on Wednesday to allow doctors to help terminally ill people to die
would not ‘pass the public safety test’. Lord Carlile makes his warning, in an
article in today’s Sunday Telegraph, as the biggest combined assault on
Britain’s ban on euthanasia for a generation is about to be instigated.”
Full text
Daily Telegraph, 11th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
We are a very busy barristers’ chambers with 67 members and 12 staff. We are looking to recruit a junior clerk with a minimum of 5 years clerking experience to join our young, enthusiastic and committed team.
Experience in the field of family law would be an advantage as would knowledge of the Meridian computer software system. Experience of dealing with extensive incoming e-mail traffic is essential.
The salary range is between £22,000 and £25,000 per annum.
If you think you might be the right person to join our team, please contact Gillian Maguire, either by telephone on 020 7092 3708 or by e-mail at Gillian.maguire@coramchambers.co.uk and request an application form, job description and person specification.
Completed application forms must be received by 6pm on Friday 17th May 2013 and interviews will take place during the week commencing Monday 20th May 2013.
Coram Chambers is an equal opportunities employer.
“The home secretary has ordered a review by a former senior judge into the role police corruption had in shielding the murderers of a private detective found with an axe embedded in his head.”
Full story
The Guardian, 10th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (SM and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department(Coram Children’s Legal Centre intervening); Regina (SR and another) Same (Same intervening) [2013] EWHC 1144 (Admin); [2013] WLR (D) 169
“The Home Office Discretionary Leave policy and instruction document (issued 27 October 2009) was not capable of being read and applied in a way which was compliant with section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 and the associated jurisprudence.”
WLR Daily, 8th May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk