Frankie Boyle’s Katie Price jokes censured – BBC News
“Media regulator Ofcom has censured comedian Frankie Boyle and Channel 4 for broadcasting ‘offensive’ jokes about Katie Price and her son Harvey.”
BBC News, 4th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: children
Ministers ignoring Child Poverty Act, warn family campaigners – The Guardian
“Child poverty campaigners have written to the government warning ministers that they have broken a legal commitment to implement the Child Poverty Act fully.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Children deserve better from family justice system – Ministry of Justice
“The family justice system needs significant reform to tackle delays and ensure that children and families get the service they deserve, says an independent panel set up to review how the system works.”
Ministry of Justice, 31st March 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Grandparents to get legal powers over access in divorce battles – Daily Telegraph
“Grandparents will get new legal powers to guarantee them access to their grandchildren following divorce battles under proposals unveiled today, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st March 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
An ugly totem for the abject failure of our criminal justice system – The Guardian
“At 10, our age of criminal responsibility is the lowest in Europe. But can you ever use age to determine maturity?”
The Guardian, 18th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Campaign to raise age of criminal responsibility – Daily Telegraph
“Children in England understand the difference between right and wrong at age 10, according to the law. Ten years old is also the age of criminal responsibility in Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia, New Zealand.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
How the law can be used to fight cuts to services for disabled people – Law Society’s Gazette
“Disabled children and disabled adults need significant support from public bodies to help them lead ordinary lives. These groups require both specialist and targeted services and flexible universal services which can be adapted to their needs.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th March 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Pc Nipples’ and her colleagues taught boys a lesson on name-calling – Daily Telegraph
“Four police officers held a 90 minute ‘restorative justice conference’ with five schoolboys after they called a woman constable ‘PC Nipples’.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th March 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Paedophile cult leader convicted for ‘satanic’ rape campaign – The Guardian
“A man has been found guilty of leading a ‘satanic’ sex cult from his home in a small Welsh town. Colin Batley, 48, of Kidwelly, west Wales, presided over a group that preyed on young children and held occult rites.”
The Guardian, 9th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina v Grout – WLR Daily
“Care had to be taken when drafting a count in an indictment alleging an offence contrary to section 8(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 because that section created at least two separate offences: (i) causing a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and (ii) inciting a child under 13 to engage in a sexual activity.”
WLR Daily, 3rd March 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Ken Clarke faces legal challenge to trace victims of ‘brutality’ in child jails – The Guardian
“A high court challenge has been launched over the Ministry of Justice’s refusal to identify hundreds of children who have been unlawfully restrained in privately run child jails using techniques that have since been banned.”
The Guardian, 15th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Criminal checks on people working with children scaled back – Home Office
“More than nine million people working or volunteering with children and vulnerable adults will no longer need to register and be monitored by the state.”
Home Office, 11th February 2011
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Supreme Court ruling puts children first in immigration cases – Law Society’s Gazette
“A landmark Supreme Court ruling has put the ‘best interests of the child’ at the centre of decision-making in immigration cases involving the deportation or removal of their parents.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th February 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Asbo replacement orders condemned by children’s charities – The Guardian
“Children’s charities today criticised the coalition’s plans to replace asbos with a new regime to tackle anti-social behaviour as little more than a rebranding exercise that would continue to demonise young people.”
The Guardian, 7th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
ZH (Tanzania) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
“The need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children who were in the United Kingdom was a primary consideration when immigration authorities were making a decision as to the deportation of a parent whose application for asylum in the United Kingdom had been refused. Once the children’s best interests had been identified, the authorities were then required to assess whether those interests were outweighed by any other considerations such as the need to maintain a proper and efficient system of immigration control. When the children had British citizenship that was of particular importance in assessing their best interests.”
WLR Daily, 2nd February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Regina (Z) v Croydon London Borough Council – WLR Daily
Regina (Z) v Croydon London Borough Council [2011] EWCA Civ 59; [2011] WLR (D) 29
“Where a court was considering whether to grant permission to proceed with a claim for judicial review of a local authority’s decision in an age assessment case the court should ask whether the material before it raised a factual case which, taken at its highest, could not properly succeed in a contested factual hearing. If so, permission should be refused. If not, permission should normally be granted, subject to other discretionary factors, such as delay. It was axiomatic that an unaccompanied asylum seeker who claimed to be a child should be given, where an assessment of his age was being conducted by a local authority, a fair and proper opportunity, at a stage when a possible adverse decision was no more than provisional, to deal with important points adverse to his age case which weighed against him.”
WLR Daily, 2nd February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Landmark human rights ruling allows asylum mother to remain in UK – The Guardian
“Immigration authorities will have to listen to the views of children whose parents are facing deportation, the supreme court has said, in a landmark human rights ruling on the rights of children born to illegal immigrants.”
The Guardian, 1st February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related link: Full judgment: ZH (Tanzania) (FC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Yarl’s Wood child detention ruled unlawful – The Guardian
“A high court judge has ruled that two mothers and their children were unlawfully detained at Yarl’s Wood immigration centre after dawn raids on their homes last year.”
The Guardian, 11th January 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Most child offenders should not face court, says report – BBC News
“The government is being urged to end Crown Court trials for children in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 5th January 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mother discovered in bed with 14-year-old boy is jailed – Daily Telegraph
“A mother-of-two who was caught having sex with her 14-year-old schoolboy lover has been jailed for three years.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th December 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
