“Members of Dyers Chambers review developments across the spectrum of corporate crime and financial regulation, including updates on LIBOR, Sanctions, DPAs and Fraud Sentencing.”
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Dyers Chambers, 11th July 2013
Source: www.dyerschambers.com
“Local authorities have a duty not to spend public money on propaganda for a political party. Section 4 of the Local Government Act 1986 provides for a Code of recommended practice as regards publicity. Councils which fail to follow its requirements may find themselves in breach of s 2 of the LGA 1986 and subject to judicial review. Hence councils act with caution in this area. Declan O’Dempsey writes about recent work on the Local Audit and Accountability Bill, which should encourage local authorities to rebut factually inaccurate stories put out by political parties, perhaps event during the election “purdah” period.”
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Cloisters, July 2013
Source: www.cloisters.com
“There is a curious if not bizarre set of anomalies about planning and environmental challenges. Where they involve an attack on a decision by the Secretary of State (typically in respect of a decision by a planning inspector after inquiry), the route is via section 288 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990. There is a strict 6 week time limit, with no discretion to extend – but no need for permission to apply as in judicial review. But where there is a challenge to any other decision, the time limit (at the moment) is 3 months, with discretion to extend – but also a discretion to disallow if the application was not ‘prompt’ even within the 3 months (see my post on this last point) and the permission hurdle to clear.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th July 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Leslie Thomas considers the recent Azelle Rodney inquiry and the impact on matters relating to Article 2.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 18th July 2013
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“So-called ‘dating scams’ have contributed to a 27% increase in the number of frauds reported, official figures show.”
The Independent, 18th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Around 1,000 holidaymakers will share a total pot of £5m from First Choice, Thomas Cook and My Travel after a “holiday from hell” court case concluded.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“There may be circumstances in which the eight-day period solicitors have to challenge interventions into their practices should be extended, the Court of Appeal has suggested.”
Legal Futures, 19th July 2013
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“The new general anti-abuse rule (GAAR) is now in force, preventing artificial and abusive tax avoidance schemes that fail to pass a ‘double reasonableness’ test.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th July 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The government spent £6m on submitting evidence to the Francis inquiry into Stafford Hospital failings, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has revealed.”
BBC News, 18th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Press Complaints Commission has dismissed complaints from Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne and his partner Carina Trimingham levelled against five national newspapers over photographs of the pair at Leyhill prison.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The first prosecution for ‘tombstoning’ could be brought against a man accused of jumping from a 30ft bridge.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The new press watchdog proposed by the country’s largest newspaper and magazine publishers has “a profound lack of any functional or meaningful independence from the industry”, a trust associated with Hacked Off claims.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An inquiry has been launched into the contact the authorities had with a vulnerable family after a violent alcoholic man was jailed for at least 30 years for murdering his baby daughter, his girlfriend and her mother.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A 22-year-old man has been found guilty of the manslaughter of organist Alan Greaves on Christmas Eve in Sheffield.”
BBC News, 18th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Most porn on demand services available to British internet users are operated from outside the UK putting them beyond UK regulation, a regulator has warned.”
The Independent, 19th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Six people have been wrongly detained and falsely accused of crimes in the past year as a result of mistakes made in the official disclosure of confidential data on their internet use to the police and security services.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Five supreme court justices have spent a day wrestling with notions of God, nirvana and what constitutes worship in an attempt to decide whether Scientologists may conduct weddings.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A rugby league star sacked by his club after a photo of a team-mate’s bottom was posted on his Twitter account was unlawfully dismissed, a judge ruled.”
BBC News, 18th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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