Home Secretary statement on Abu Qatada – Home Office
“Statement by Home Secretary Theresa May following the deportation of Abu Qatada on Sunday (7 July).”
Home Office, 7th July 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
Category: bills
As Abu Qatada leaves, Theresa May vows to change human rights law – The Guardian
“Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, celebrated the successful deportation of Abu Qatada to Jordan on Sunday by saying the long-running saga meant there would have to be ‘wholesale changes’ in Britain’s human rights laws.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Consultation launched into migrant access of health services – Home Office
“A consultation into short term migrant’s access and contribution to the NHS has been launched as part of the Immigration Bill.”
Home Office, 3rd July 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
Consultations on upcoming immigration bill – UK Border Agency
“The government has launched two consultations seeking views on proposed immigration legislation.”
UK Border Agency, 3rd July 2013
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
The mechanics of Deferred Prosecution Agreements in the UK – Speech by Oliver Heald QC MP
“Speech to the C5 7th Advanced Forum on Anti Corruption on the role of prosecutors and the court.”
Attorney-Geberal’s Office, 28th June 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/ago
Mid Wales MP wants 19th Century child neglect law changes – BBC News
“A mid Wales MP is bidding to change child neglect laws that date back to the 19th Century, which he claims are now ‘nonsense’. Ceredigion MP Mark Williams wants criminal legislation based on 1868 poor laws to be updated to include emotional and psychological abuse.”
BBC News, 30th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
EU referendum law hits trouble – Daily Telegraph
“An official House of Commons analysis says a series of further Parliamentary votes will be required in 2016 to enshrine a future referendum in law. It warns that the legislation being debated in Parliament this week – if passed – could have little legal relevance as it could be ignored by a future government.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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Stephen Lawrence claims: High Court ‘should approve undercover operations’ – BBC News
“Revelations about Stephen Lawrence’s family show police forces should be required to get High Court approval for undercover operations, campaigners say.”
BBC News, 26th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Prisoners could be awarded thousands in compensation over right to vote – Daily Telegraph
“Prisoners could be in line for thousands of pounds each in backdated compensation over the government’s refusal to give them the right to vote, MPs and peers have been warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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New copyright laws give researchers right to conduct ‘electronic analysis’ of copied content – OUT-LAW.com
“Researchers that wish to conduct “electronic analysis” of copyrighted content for non-commercial purposes will have a right to copy that information under proposed new copyright laws.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th June 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Spinster sisters could win legal right to be treated as married couples, Peers told – Daily Telegraph
“The introduction of same-sex marriage could finally open the way for carers and relatives such as unmarried sisters who live together to be given the same legal status as married couples, the House of Lords has been told.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Official: 13,000 more criminals to be jailed every year from Chris Grayling reforms – Daily Telegraph
“Thousands of criminals who re-offend after serving only a few months in prison will be locked up again under a new Ministry of Justice crackdown, the department’s own estimates show.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Jail reckless bankers, standards commission urges – BBC News
“Senior bankers guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed, a long-awaited report on banking commissioned by the government has recommended.”
BBC News, 19th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Jack Simson Caird: A Proposal for a Code of Legislative Standards? – UK Constitutional Law Group
“On the 20 of May the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee (the PCR) published its report on legislative scrutiny standards titled ‘Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation’. The Report contains two eye catching and ambitious proposals for parliamentary reform: the creation of a joint committee on legislative standards and the adoption of a code of legislative standards. This blog is about the second of these proposals. The proposal is a significant one, and if implemented it would dramatically improve the information available to parliamentarians in their scrutiny of government bills. The PCR’s code is in effect a series of questions and demands for information relating to the content and to the timetable of a bill, that the government would answer within the explanatory notes to a bill. In this blog post, I draw attention to the code proposed by the PRC and I offer a critique of their approach, and in particular of the decision not to include substantive legislative standards.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 14th June 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
Law Commission welcomes Draft Consumer Rights Bill – Law Commission
“The Law Commission welcomes the new Consumer Rights Bill published today, which incorporates many of our recommendations.”
Law Commission, 12th June 2013
Source: www.lawcommission.justice.gov.uk
New consumer rights bill unveiled – The Guardian
“New measures to enhance consumer rights and make them easier to understand have been unveiled by consumer minister Jo Swinson.”
The Guardian, 12th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme court urged to reject challenge to prisoner voting ban – The Guardian
“The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has urged the supreme court to dismiss legal challenges by two convicted murderers who are seeking the right for prisoners to vote.”
The Guardian, 11th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Keir Starmer: terrorists could escape prosecution without ‘snoopers’ charter’ – Daily Telegraph
“There is a ‘real risk’ that terrorists could avoid prosecution if proposed internet monitoring powers are abandoned, the country’s top prosecutor has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Copyright law changes outlined by the Government – OUT-LAW.com
“Media outlets will have a new right to make limited use of quotes published by rival news organisations under changes to copyright law proposed by the Government.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th June 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Helen Fenwick: Article 8 ECHR, the ‘Feminist Article’, Women and a Conservative Bill of Rights – UK Constitutional Law Group
“There has been a lot of commentary on the Report of the Bill of Rights’ Commission, and the ‘damp squib’ analysis of the Report (see Mark Elliott) as a whole is one most commentators appear to assent to (see eg Joshua Rozenberg for the Guardian here). My view in general is that the squib could reignite post-2015 if a Conservative government is elected, not in relation to the very hesitant ideas as to the possible future content of a Bill of Rights that the Report put forward, but in relation to its majority recommendation that there should be one (see further my previous post on the Commission Report here). If a BoR was to emerge under a Conservative government post-2015 I suggest that it would reflect the ideas of the Conservative nominees on the Commission which assumed a far more concrete form in the Report than the majority recommendations did (eg see here at p 192). This blog post due to its length is not intended to examine the probable nature of such a BoR based on those ideas in general, but to focus only on two aspects: the idea of curtailing the effects of an equivalent to Article 8 ECHR (right to respect for private and family life), and of requiring domestic courts to disapply Strasbourg jurisprudence under a BoR in a wider range of situations than at present under s2HRA (see Roger Masterman’s post on s2 on this blog here). In respect of the latter issue the potential impact of so doing will only be linked to selected aspects of Article 8 jurisprudence of especial actual and potential benefit to women.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 5th June 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
