“The Court of Appeal has ordered the the disclosure of serious allegations made against a parent by an anonymous third party in contact proceedings. In doing so, it has demonstrated the correct approach to balancing the many different human rights considerations involved.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th September 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Maths teacher Jeremy Forrest, who disappeared with one of his 15-year-old pupils, might not have been identified to the public under controversial laws that come into force next week.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Police, social workers and the Crown Prosecution Service ‘missed opportunities’ to stop a child exploitation ring abusing young girls over several years, according to a report published today.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Eight men who preyed on ‘vulnerable’ underage teenage girls for sex have been jailed for up to seven years.”
BBC News, 24th September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has ordered that a young person who made sexual abuse allegations against a father of an 8 year old girl, which were considered in contact proceedings concerning her, must be identified.”
Family Law Week, 24th September 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
“Doctors should talk to children as young as five alone if they suspect they are at risk of neglect or abuse, under new guidance.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An inquiry into child sex abuse by Church of England clergy in Chichester has found many children suffered ‘abiding hurt and damage’ because local safeguarding measures had fallen ‘woefully short’ for two decades.”
The Guardian, 31st August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman has won a six-figure sum at the High Court over the physical and sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepfather as a child.”
The Independent, 10th August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A babysitter who raped an eight year old boy more than a decade ago was jailed after his victim went to the police after being inspired by a storyline on Coronation Street.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two brothers from Telford have been found guilty of 25 counts of sexual offences against young girls.”
BBC News, 8th August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A 52-year-old man has been jailed for 18 months for offences relating to indecent images of children.”
BBC News, 26th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teacher has been jailed for 11 years for sexually abusing five boys at public schools in Berkshire and Kent.”
BBC News, 24th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) was empowered under section 4(3) of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 to determine whether a decision by the Independent Safeguarding Authority that it was appropriate to include an individual on a barred list was proportionate and rational. In assessing proportionality the tribunal was required to give appropriate weight to the decision of a body charged by statute with a task of expert evaluation. The tribunal also had to address as a material consideration the issue of public confidence in the statutory scheme and in the list.”
WLR Daily, 18th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Leach v Office of Communications: [2012] EWCA Civ 959; [2012] WLR (D) 205
“The trust placed by an employer in an employee was at the core of their relationship. The employment tribunal had been entitled to find that, where the employer had received an unproved and untested allegation of an overseas child sex offence against the employee, who had not disclosed it to the employer prior to his appointment, the resulting breakdown of trust had constituted ‘some other substantial reason’ within the meaning of section 98(1)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 summarily to dismiss the employee in order to prevent the employer’s reputation being damaged.”
WLR Daily, 13th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
E v English Province of Our Lady of Charity and another [2012] EWCA Civ 938; [2012] WLR (D) 204
“In a case in which a Roman Catholic parish priest was said to have abused a young girl, and the question arose, as to potential vicarious liability, whether he was an employee, independent contractor, or in some other manner to be considered akin to an employee, the law as to vicarious liability was to be extended such that the question should be approached in a broader way, and also by reference to several tests, looking, inter alia, to whether the applicable status was akin to employment, and whether it would be just and fair to impose vicarious liability.”
WLR Daily, 12th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The UK Border Agency has reacted with fury to a court ruling allowing a Sudanese asylum seeker who raped a 12-year-old girl to remain in Britain.”
The Independent, 15th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Five men who preyed on vulnerable teenage girls for sex have been found guilty of paying for the sexual services of a child.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Roman Catholic diocese is liable to pay compensation for alleged beatings inflicted by a nun and sexual abuse perpetrated by a priest on a young girl, the court of appeal has ruled.”
The Guardian, 12th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A consultation has been launched concerning proposals for a new regime of joint inspections of multi-agency arrangements for the protection of children in England. The arrangements will concern Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons.”
Family Law Week, 11th July 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Leading UK sporting bodies are warning that they are unable to share crucial child protection information. New figures given to the BBC reveal that 124 allegations of sexual abuse in sport were made last year. There are fears that under the current system those accused can move to another sport or part of the country.”
BBC News, 10th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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