‘In a rare move, Mr Justice Sweeney weighs in at the Old Bailey to settle the legal row which erupted that week over the retrial of senior Sun executives.’
Daily Telegraph, 13th February 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Crown Prosecution Service has announced it is to take no further action against an unnamed Sun journalist and a public official who were investigated over tips for stories.’
The Guardian, 4th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Mr Justice Mann rules that settlements reached in first claims for damages against News of the World publisher barred new actions from former TV personalities.’
The Guardian, 27th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A kidnap gang who cut off a man’s finger to get a £20,000 ransom have been jailed.’
BBC News, 26th January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘One of the UK’s most wanted fugitives, who was arrested on his return to Britain in a light aircraft, has been jailed.’
BBC News, 21st January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Four journalists have been cleared of plotting to pay officials while working at the Sun newspaper.’
BBC News, 16th January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A gang of people who carried out an “audacious” mortgage fraud worth more than £5m have been jailed.’
BBC News, 18th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A PC who passed on intelligence about police killer Dale Cregan and planned drugs raids to her sister and drug-dealing former lover has been jailed.’
BBC News, 17th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An 80-year-old man has been convicted of masterminding an acid revenge attack on his teenage ex-lover.’
BBC News, 12th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Earlier this week three individuals were sentenced at Southwark Crown Court following the first prosecution by the SFO under the Bribery Act 2010. The case hasn’t give us a meaningful judicial interpretation of the Bribery Act, but it does show that the SFO is prepared to use the Act and the case also serves as a further example of the risks of investing through a SIPP into an investment that seems too good to be true.’
RPC Financial Services Blog, 11th December 2014
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
‘An ex-prison officer has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for selling details about James Bulger’s killer to a journalist.’
BBC News, 11th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘David Cameron will place Britain’s GCHQ eavesdropping agency and the National Crime Agency (NCA) at the centre of a fight to eliminate “digital hiding places for child abusers”.’
The Guardian, 11th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man who beat three sisters in a “vicious and merciless” hammer attack as they slept with their young children in a luxury hotel has been jailed for life.’
The Guardian, 17th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Six Sun journalists have been cleared of a charge of conspiring together to corrupt public officials, after a judge ruled there was no case answer on an “overarching” charge in their trial.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th November 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Doctor exposed in Telegraph investigation served summons to face conspiracy allegation in landmark sex-selective abortion private prosecution.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th November 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A former news editor at the News of the World has been sentenced to eight months in prison after he pleaded guilty to plotting to hack the phones of public figures, sports stars and celebrities.’
The Guardian, 7th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is to launch a full review of its procedures after a judge halted a case in which a vicar who was alleged to have operated a “conveyor belt” of sham marriages claimed that immigration officers concealed evidence and lied under oath.’
The Independent, 23rd October 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A man who savagely beat three sisters in a “sustained and vicious” hammer attack as they slept with their young children in a luxury London hotel has been found guilty of attempted murder.’
The Guardian, 21st October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Rebekah Brooks’s husband Charlie has lost his bid to recover the £600,000 in legal fees he incurred as a result of being a co-defendant in the phone-hacking trial.’
The Guardian, 15th October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A former Virgin Atlantic pilot has been jailed for 14 years for committing a £30m mortgage fraud in Berkshire.’
BBC News, 14th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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