‘Confectionery giant Nestle’s attempt to trademark the shape of its four-finger KitKat bar in the UK does not comply with European law, a senior European Court lawyer has said.’
BBC News, 11th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘It will be impossible to enforce human rights across Europe if the Conservative party carries out its threat to withdraw from the Strasbourg court, the former attorney general Dominic Grieve QC has warned.’
The Guardian, 11th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Fiona Cullum sobs in the courtroom as her suspended sentence for perverting the course of justice is declared ‘unduly lenient’.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th June 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Prison authorities have been underestimating the scale of overcrowding in jails in England and Wales for six years, the prisons minister has admitted.’
The Guardian, 11th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A petition calling for a referendum on whether Britain should repeal the Human Rights Act has attracted more than 235,000 signatures as opposition to the Conservative government’s plans to scrap it grows.’
The Independent, 11th June 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A young woman who admitted being a “Twitter terrorist” on a massive scale has been jailed for three and a half years.’
The Guardian, 11th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A GP who did not act adequately over concerns raised about starved schoolboy Daniel Pelka remains fit to practise, a disciplinary panel has ruled.’
BBC News, 11th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Independent Police Complaints Commission will not mount a formal investigation into allegations of criminal wrongdoing by police even though it has found evidence to suggest that police officers assaulted miners at the mass picket of the Orgreave coking plant during the 1984-85 miners’ strike, then perverted the course of justice and committed perjury in the failed prosecutions which followed.’
The Guardian, 12th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘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
‘Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre is holding vulnerable women for too long in conditions that are causing them serious distress and are not suitable for those with mental health problems, according to a damning independent report.’
The Guardian, 9th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) should not look beyond the contractual arrangements that govern a company’s structure when establishing liability for VAT unless those arrangements do not reflect “economic and commercial reality”, a tribunal has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 5th June 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The number of prisoners who take their own lives in solitary confinement has reached a nine-year high with the death toll including a man who hanged himself after officers refused to give him a book, a report has disclosed today.’
The Independent, 9th June 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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