Watchdog Ofqual queries text book links to exam boards – BBC News
“The publication or endorsement of text books by exam boards has been questioned by England’s exams watchdog Ofqual.”
BBC News, 7th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: conflict of interest
Judge in late abortion case linked to conservative Christian charity – The Guardian
“A judge who criticised UK abortion policies while sentencing a woman to eight years in prison for performing her own abortion at a late stage in her pregnancy is one of at least five members of the judiciary with links to a Christian charity which has campaigned for more conservative abortion laws.”
The Guardian, 21st September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Sarah Catt, abortion and the legal rights of pregnant women – The Guardian
“Before prosecuting and jailing women for abortion, we should ask whether criminalisation is ever appropriate.”
The Guardian, 21st September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
NHS trust head Margaret Foster dealt with complaint concerning surgeon husband – BBC News
“A health trust chief executive who dealt with a complaint about a patient’s treatment failed to declare she was married to a surgeon involved. Margaret Foster, who was then head of Pontypridd and Rhondda NHS Trust, wrote to the patient’s daughter after complaints about a routine operation. A health watchdog agreed that not revealing the relationship may have been seen as a conflict of interest.”
BBC News, 30th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The millionairess, the horse trials and the almighty legal row – Daily Telegraph
“Each spring, tens of thousands of visitors a day — including the odd member of the Royal family — flock to the Gloucestershire stately home to enjoy three days of dressage, show-jumping and cross-country, not to mention the champagne receptions. Behind the scenes, however, a rather less harmonious atmosphere has developed, with a furious row pitting a businesswoman who was once America’s highest paid female executive against a leading light of the equestrian establishment. At stake have been the lucrative broadcasting rights to the trials.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
The ethical issues arising from the relationship between police and media – Metropolitan Police
“The ethical issues arising from the relationship between police and media: advice to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and his Management Board.”
Metropolitan Police, 4th January 2012
Filkin report on Met police links with journalists: key recommendations – The Guardian
“Elizabeth Filkin, the former parliamentary commissioner for standards, has recommended ‘more, not less’ communication between the police and journalists in her report on the Metropolitan police’s relationship with the media. Filkin made seven key recommendations, including one that requires all Scotland Yard officers and staff who meet members of the press to make a personal note of that meeting for their line manager.”
The Guardian, 4th Janaury 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Police face clampdown on contact with journalists – Daily Telegraph
“Elizabeth Filkin, the former parliamentary commissioner for standards, is expected to reveal details of a new framework for officers talking to news outlets. Her report is one of several inquiries launched in the wake of Scotland Yard’s phone-hacking investigation, which has unearthed allegations of payments to officers from journalists.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
PI lawyers risk conflict claims under ABS – Law Society Gazette
“The legal profession is unprepared for conflicts of interest in personal injury law that will occur from 2012, the Gazette has been told. Such conflicts could leave PI lawyers open to negligence claims and increase professional indemnity insurance premiums.”
Law Society Gazette, 15th December 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Regina (Kaur) v Institute of Legal Executives Appeal Tribunal and another – WLR Daily
“Judges should not sit or should face recusal or disqualification where there was a real possibility on the objective appearances of things, assessed by the fair-minded and informed observer, that the tribunal could be biased. The vice-president of the Institute of Legal Executives (‘ILEX’) ought not to have been a member of a disciplinary appeal tribunal set up by the institute to deal with breaches of its rules. Her leading role in the institute and her inevitable interest in its policy of disciplinary regulation should have disqualified her because the fair-minded and informed observer ought to have or would have concluded that there was a real possibility of bias.”
WLR Daily, 19th October 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Justice minister stripped of powers – The Guardian
“The justice minister, Jonathan Djanogly, has been stripped of his responsibility to regulate firms that ‘ambulance chase’ the public following a Guardian investigation that revealed how he and his family could profit from controversial changes to legal aid he was piloting in parliament.”
The Guardian, 17th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Jonathan Djanogly faces inquiries into legal aid profits – The Guardian
“Jonathan Djanogly, the justice minister, has admitted for the first time to MPs that inquiries had been launched by his own department and the Cabinet Office following an investigation by the Guardian that revealed he could personally profit from changes he was piloting in the Commons.”
The Guardian, 11th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Jonathan Djanogly forced to act over conflict of interest claims – The Guardian
“The justice minister Jonathan Djanogly has been forced to publicly declare in the parliamentary register that his controversial stakes in the insurance industry have been placed in a ‘blind trust’, after a Guardian investigation revealed that he could personally profit from legislation he is piloting in the Commons.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Justice minister failed to declare interest in industry he regulates – The Guardian
“The justice minister Jonathan Djanogly failed to declare that his children were minority shareholders in his brother-in-law’s businesses – two firms which advertise accident compensation claims and are part of an industry that Djanogly regulates in government, the Guardian can reveal.”
The Guardian, 2nd October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Arbitrator’s work with lawyers on separate case will not make him biased, rules High Court – OUT-LAW.com
“An arbitrator is not likely to be biased by the mere fact that he is working for one of the parties on an unrelated case, a judge has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
Electoral Commission rules out inquiry into NI payments to Andy Coulson – The Guardian
“The Conservative party will not face an official inquiry into allegations that it broke electoral law by failing to declare News International’s payments to its former head of communications, Andy Coulson, after the elections watchdog concluded that there was insufficient evidence of a breach.”
The Guardian, 30th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Abortion rules shakeup could set system back 25 years, says GPs’ chief – The Guardian
“The head of the Royal College of General Practitioners has warned that government moves to shake up pre-abortion counselling for women could create new barriers and set the system back 25 years.”
The Guardian, 29th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Former Director of Public Prosecutions says no question of conflict in News Corporation advice – Daily Telegraph
“Lord Macdonald of River Glaven, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, last night denied there was a conflict of interest when he advised Rupert Murdoch’s media company over the News of the World scandal.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Joujou and others v Masri – WLR Daily
Joujou and others v Masri [2011] EWCA Civ 746; [2011] WLR (D) 219
“Judicial comity prevented the court from threatening contempt proceedings against judicial administrators who were refusing on instructions from the foreign court which appointed them to comply with a order of a High Court judge.”
WLR Daily, 28th June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
