‘he UK’s main Jehovah’s Witnesses charity has dropped efforts to block an investigation into how it handled allegations of sexual abuse, including of children, after a legal fight lasting more than two years.’
The Guardian, 2r3d January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The University of Oxford is to face a landmark trial following a £1m compensation claim filed by a former student after he failed to graduate with a first-class degree.’
The Independent, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A woman who plotted to let a paedophile rape her seven-year-old daughter has been jailed for nine years.’
The Guardian, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The criminal justice system “did too little to protect” a vulnerable inmate who electrocuted himself in prison, the Prisons Ombudsman has found.’
BBC News, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The General Data Protection Regulation is here to stay: well beyond the date of Brexit. What do you need to know?’
Law Society’s Gazette, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Anonymous and pseudonymous publication has a long history. It may now be the exception in literary and specialist journalism, but at the start of the 19th century it was pretty much the rule – to the extent that France in 1850 legislated to forbid the publication of unsigned articles on philosophical, political and religious subjects. A new book by Eric Barendt, Anonymous Speech: Literature, Law and Politics (Hart, £25), traces the contemporaneous voluntary abandonment of anonymity in England and the often pompous arguments that accompanied it. The fact was that journals’ recruitment of well-known writers – Thackeray, Dickens – was starting to put a premium on names. So when the Fortnightly Review started up in 1865, it announced that all its articles would be signed and free of editorial pressure. By contrast, from its foundation in 1913 the New Statesman anonymised its contributors, though the editor, having explained that this was necessary in order to establish a common style and tone, couldn’t resist announcing that Sidney Webb and Bernard Shaw would be writing for it. In 1925 the Spectator, after not quite a hundred years of unsigned articles, abandoned anonymity, and the New Statesman followed. Articles in the TLS remained anonymous until 1974, and obituaries in the Times and Telegraph are unsigned to this day. So are the entirety of the Economist and the bulk of Private Eye.’
London Review of Books, 19th January 2017
Source: www.lrb.co.uk
‘Fast food chain KFC has been fined almost £1m after two employees suffered burns while handling hot gravy without gloves.’
BBC News, 20th January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Senior judges are taking steps to end the presumption that a father must have contact with a child where there is evidence of domestic abuse that would put the child or mother at risk.’
The Guardian, 20th January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Almost 8,000 drivers were caught using a mobile phone behind the wheel during a week-long crackdown by police.’
BBC News, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A lone whistleblower has won a 13-year “David and Goliath battle” against HSBC and Britain’s chief financial watchdog, resulting in a multimillion-pound compensation payout to thousands of people.’
The Guardian, 20th January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man who groomed young boys through the online game Minecraft has been jailed for two years and eight months.’
BBC News, 20th Janaury 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The High Court has awarded a successful German claimant an extra £20,000 in costs to compensate for the impact of the falling value of sterling against the euro – especially since the EU referendum vote – as it had to convert euros into pounds during the case to pay its solicitors.’
Litigation Futures, 19th January 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has today lost its High Court bid to halt the Lord Chancellor announcing the outcome of the consultation on the discount rate.’
Litigation Futures, 20th January 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Four different versions of the law giving Theresa May the power to start Brexit have already been prepared as ministers brace themselves for Supreme Court defeat this week.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st January 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The mother of murdered soldier Lee Rigby has said she was threatened with arrest unless she attended the appeal hearing of a man who harassed her over her son’s death.’
The Guardian, 22nd January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘There is an exceedingly long line of case law, stretching back beyond the days of the community charge (which was of course better known as the Poll Tax). In those cases, the courts have traditionally quashed custodial orders improperly imposed by magistrates for non-payment of council taxes.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The number of people defrauded in the UK by online dating scams reached a record high in 2016, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned.’
BBC News, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The government downplayed the risk of human rights abuses in one of the world’s most repressive regimes in an attempt to reduce asylum seeker numbers despite doubts from its own experts, internal documents have revealed.’
The Guardian, 22nd January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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