‘An attempt to settle a divorce cheaply backfired leaving Norma Wilson having to live a one-bed council flat.’
Daily Telegraph, 10th June 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Legal aid fees for criminal solicitors will be cut by 8.75% and the number of contracts for attending police stations and magistrates court reduced by two-thirds, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed.’
The Guardian, 10th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Two hundred women treated by a disgraced surgeon have joined a group taking legal action against the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust.’
BBC News, 10th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The removal of citizenship has been used as a penalty for disloyalty only rarely in Britain. A handful of spies with dual nationality were denaturalised during the Cold War, but the last case in the 20th century was in 1973. Change came slowly even after 9/11: only five people were stripped of British citizenship by Labour home secretaries, and the emblematic bogeyman of the era, the hook-handed Abu Hamza, repeatedly dodged moves to annul the Britishness he had gained through marriage. He didn’t manage to elude extradition to the United States, where he has now been jailed for life, but for what it’s worth, he remains notionally a British subject.’
London Review of Books, 18th June 2015
Source: www.lrb.co.uk
‘An online advert for a London car wash which showed young bikini-clad women pouring soapy water over themselves has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) – after receiving just one complaint.’
The Independent, 10th June 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The man known as the Naked Rambler has made legal history by appearing before leading judges in the nude.’
The Guardian, 9th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Miscarriages of justice will result from fresh cuts to the legal aid budget announced on 10 June, solicitors are warning.’
The Independent, 10th June 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A 12-year-old boy has been awarded £120,000 by a court that agreed he had been left severely disabled by narcolepsy triggered by the swine flu vaccine, following a three-year battle in which the government had claimed that his illness was not serious enough to merit payment.’
The Guardian, 10th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A 34-year-old Cardiff man has become the first person in the UK to be prosecuted under forced marriage laws introduced a year ago.’
BBC News, 10th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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