“Santa Claus could be breaking privacy laws in his collection and use of data about British children, experts have warned. Yuletide cheer-bringer Claus could be putting the personal data of millions of children at risk.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th December 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“A key element of the government’s family justice policy is failing the children it was intended to help, a two-year study funded by the Ministry of Justice has concluded.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The planned removal from the UK of a suicidal Kurdish teenager whose traumatic experience of the British deportation process drove her to self-harm appeared to have been scrapped yesterday.”
The Independent, 23rd November 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A coroner has ruled the death of a five-year-old Ellie Lawrenson in St Helens was unlawful killing.”
BBC News, 21st November 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An investigation has been launched after an Internet video appeared to show police officers buying cigarettes for underage youths.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st November 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A generation of British “tweenagers” – children aged between eight and 13 – are at risk of losing interest in school and experimenting with drugs and alcohol as the problems traditionally associated with teenagers come into effect earlier, a minister warned yesterday.”
The Guardian, 20th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK government will be criticised today over key aspects of children’s human rights in a report highlighting how youngsters in custody are being handcuffed or have needed oxygen after being restrained.”
The Guardian, 20th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Holmes-Moorhouse v Richmond-upon-Thames London Borough Council
Court of Appeal
“A shared residence order made by a family court in uncontested proceedings did not determine the question whether a parent in whose favour the order was made had a priority need for housing as a homeless person with dependent children who might reasonably be expected to reside with him.”
The Times, 19th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Chris Langham will walk free from prison later today after the Court of Appeal cut his sentence for downloading the most extreme kind of child pornography.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th November 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Six out of 10 young people want more police on the streets to protect them from crime, according to a survey.”
BBC News, 13th November 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Parents will have a new legal duty to help make sure their children stay in education until the age of 18 under plans unveiled today.”
The Independent, 6th November 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A judge told an elite female tennis coach that she had acted in the interests of her ‘own selfish, sexual ends’ as he jailed her today for two years and nine months for conducting a year-long affair with a 13-year-old pupil.”
The Times, 3rd November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Most schoolchildren who have Saturday jobs or deliver newspapers in the morning are working illegally, according to a study.”
The Times, 1st November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Young people aged 16 or 17 will be able to apply for a passport without parental consent from December, the government announced today.”
The Guardian, 30th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Northumbria Crown Prosecution Service has advised Northumbria Police that a photograph seized from an exhibition at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, is not an indecent image.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 26th October 2007
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“The Government bowed to parental pressure yesterday and decided against introducing a ban on smacking children.”
The Independent, 26th October 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An ethics watchdog should be set up to monitor reality TV programmes involving babies, according to healthcare visitors and children’s charities, whose attention has focused on the controversial Channel 4 show Bringing Up Baby, in which new parents tried out hardline parenting in their child’s early weeks.”
The Guardian, 19th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A tennis instructor accused of conducting an affair with a girl she was coaching was today found guilty of molesting the student.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The children’s tsar today attacked the government’s youth justice policy, which he warned is enraging and alienating young people.”
The Guardian, 15th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A five-judge panel in the Court of Appeal is to be asked to decide whether a man who admitted 20 charges of making and possessing indecent pictures of children should have his identity protected because his two daughters might be harassed or bullied at school.”
The Guardian, 15th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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