“Racing pundit John McCririck lost his job at Channel 4 because his ‘pantomime persona’ was ‘unpalatable’ to a wide audience, an employment tribunal ruled.”
BBC News, 13th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An Afghan national suspected of travelling abroad for terrorist training has failed in an attempt to retain British citizenship.”
The Guardian, 13th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The HSE has ordered the MoD to take action to deal with risks on exercises after the deaths of three Army reservists on SAS selection tests in the Brecon Beacons.”
BBC News, 13th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two more adverts have been banned as the ASA continues its battle with websites that give the impression of being ‘official.’ ”
Daily Telegraph, 13th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A pensioner who went on the run after conning a blind widow out of her £2.2m estate has been jailed for 10 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The MI6 spy found dead in a bag three years ago probably locked himself in the holdall and died as a result of a tragic accident, Scotland Yard has said.”
The Guardian, 13th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The latest Diversity League Table from the Black Solicitors Network suggests that despite improved access to the profession minority groups remain under-represented at the top.”
The Lawyer, 12th November 2013
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“A serious case review (SCR) into the starvation of four-year-old Hamzah Khan has concluded that while his death was ‘not predictable’, Bradford social services missed signs that, had they been put together, could have warned that Hamzah and his seven siblings were at risk.”
The Guardian, 13th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Today the Government has published its response to the Justice Select Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 2013–14, entitled Older Prisoners.”
Ministry of Justice, 12th November 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
“A High Court judge has rejected a council’s legal challenge over plans to close an accident and emergency department at a local hospital. The London Borough of Enfield had sought to challenge the decision by the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey clinical commissioning groups (the ‘CCGs’) and the Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust to close the A&E department at Chase Farm Hospital with effect from 9 December this year.”
Local Government Lawyer, 13th November 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
“People who suffer psychiatric injuries after witnessing distressing events are subjected to a ‘harsh and outdated’ system of redress, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has said, calling for a change in the law.”
Litigation Futures, 13th November 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“In W.H. Newson Holding Limited & ors v IMI plc & ors [2013] EWCA Civ 1377, the Court of Appeal has made some important new law regarding the scope of section 47A of the Competition Act 1998 and the tort of common law conspiracy.”
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 13th November 2013
Source: www.competitionbulletin.com
“Information for magistrates, district judges and court staff. This information pack, produced by the Prison Reform Trust, will also be of considerable assistance to defence and prosecution lawyers.”
CrimeLine, 13th November 2013
Source: www.crimeline.info
“The Daily Mail has belatedly ‘corrected’ its front page story on human rights damages, over a month after it appeared on 7 October 2013. Early last month I blogged on the original bogus article, which was so poor it generated a response from the ordinarily placid Council of Europe.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 12th November 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“This week, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the draft Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill took evidence , and there were notable comments from the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, the body which monitors compliance with the European Court of Human Rights. Meanwhile, Baroness Hale weighed in on the proposed judicial review changes and, continuing along the judicial review vein, David Miranda (pictured) began his claim on Wednesday.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th November 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has cleared Google’s takeover of Israeli-based mapping technology company Waze Mobile after finding it does not raise competition concerns.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th November 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Can a refuge be a ‘residence of own choice’ for the purposes of Local Authority decisions about local connection in homeless applications? This is a rare Court of Appeal decision on the issue. In addition, can a Reg 8(2) ‘minded to’ letter requirement be triggered by events during the review and after a first ‘minded to’ letter has been sent?”
NearlyLegal, 10th November 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“The words ‘in relation to … the trust’ in sections 65(F)(1), 65I(1), 65K(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006, as amended and inserted, meant the failing trust to which the trust special administrator had been appointed under Chapter 5A of the 2006 Act, and no other trust. It followed that the administrator appointed to a neighbouring trust had no power to make recommendations in relation to any other trust, and the Secretary of State had no power to make a decision based on such recommendations.”
WLR Daily, 8th November 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Scott v Russell [2013] EWCA Civ 1432 (12 November 2013)
WH Newson Holding Ltd & Ors v IMI Plc & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 1377 (12 November 2013)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Leacock & Ors, R v [2013] EWCA Crim 1994 (12 November 2013)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
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