Criminal responsibility – BBC News
“In England and Wales the age of criminal responsiblity is 10 – but should it be raised?”
BBC News, 10th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: children
DNA policy ‘stigmatises children’ – BBC News
“DNA samples are being taken from children in a London borough at the rate of nearly one a day, figures show.”
BBC News, 8th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Serial paedophile jailed for life – BBC News
“A serial paedophile who raped at least three young children and forced them to have sex together has been jailed for life.”
BBC News, 5th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
TV slimmer jailed for child abuse – BBC News
“TV slimming personality and radio DJ Barry Bethell has been jailed for four years for sexually assaulting a girl.”
BBC News, 5th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (G) v Southwark London Borough Council – Times Law Reports
Regina (G) v Southwark London Borough Council
House of Lords
“A local authority’s children’s services unit could not purport to fulfil its duties to look after a homeless child merely by referring him to the homeless persons unit.”
The Times, 4th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Charity loses funding to help child refugees wrongly classified as adults – The Guardian
“Hundreds of children fleeing war and persecution will be wrongly denied education and given no more help than adult asylum seekers in the UK under controversial changes introduced by the government, a leading charity warned yesterday.”
The Guardian, 1st June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Banker jailed for grooming girl – BBC News
“A City banker who used his status as a top table tennis player to groom a 15-year-old girl for sex has been jailed for 12 months.”
BBC News, 29th May 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Call for reform over child witnesses in court – The Independent
“The barrister who cross-examined the four-year-old girl raped by one of Baby P’s killers has called for reform in the way that child witnesses are treated by the courts system.”
The Independent, 22nd May 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina (G) v Southwark London Borough Council – WLR Daily
Regina (G) v Southwark London Borough Council [2009] UKHL 26; [2009] WLR (D) 159
“When a child aged 16 or 17 who had been excluded from his family home applied to the children’s service department of the local authority for accommodation under s 20 of the Children Act 1989, and he satisfied all the requirements of s 20(1), it was not open to the authority to refer the child to the local housing authority for accommodation as a homeless person under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996.”
WLR Daily, 20th May 2009
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.
Database of all children launched – BBC News
“A controversial database which holds the details of every child in England has now become available for childcare professionals to access.”
BBC News, 17th May 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Children in jail: lottery of justice is revealed – The Independent
“The jailing of children in England and Wales has become a postcode lottery where child custody rates in some parts of the country are five times higher than in others, according to league tables seen by The Independent.”
The Independent, 12th May 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Review begins into cross-examination of rape victim, four – The Times
“An independent review is underway into how Haringey Social Services dealt with the case of a two-year-old girl raped by a man convicted over Baby P’s death.”
The Times, 2nd May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
R v JTB (on appeal from R v T) – WLR Daily
R v JTB (on appeal from R v T) [2009] UKHL 20; [2009] WLR(D) 140
“S 34 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 abolished the defence as well as the presumption of doli incapax.”
WLR Daily, 29th April 2009
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.
They quote you Larkin, your appeal court judges – The Guardian
“Poetic warning to separated parents that constant fighting hurts their children.”
The Guardian, 30th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Inside Yarl’s Wood: Britain’s shame over child detainees – The Independent
“Children held in the infamous Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre are being denied urgent medical treatment, handled violently and left at risk of serious harm, a damning report by the Children’s Commissioner for England will say tomorrow.”
The Independent, 26th April 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council v Alexander-David – Times Law Reports
Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council v Alexander-David
Court of Appeal
“A local housing authority which granted a tenancy to a minor who was homeless and in priority need held the premises in trust for the minor. For as long as the authority was the trustee, it could not lawfully serve a notice to quit on the minor.”
The Times, 13th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Child trafficking into Britain accelerating, figures show – The Guardian
“Suspected victims of child trafficking from Asia, Africa and the Middle East are being smuggled through Britain’s leading ports and airports at an accelerating rate, new figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal.”
The Guardian, 14th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Inside child prisons – BBC Today
“There are currently around 300 children aged 10 to 17 locked up in England and Wales. ”
BBC Today, 13th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Proceedings brought by A (Case C-523/07) – WLR Daily
Proceedings brought by A (Case C-523/07); [2009] WLR (D) 129
“For the purposes of the rule that the courts of the EC member state where a child was habitually resident had jurisdiction in matters of parental responsibility, ‘habitual residence’ denoted some degree of integration by the child in a social and family environment.”
WLR Daily, 6th April 2009
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.
Baby unlawfully taken from mother – BBC News
“Social workers in Nottingham failed to follow the correct legal processes in separating a baby from its teenage mother, a report has concluded.”
BBC News, 6th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
