“Britain’s most senior judge has expressed fears that reforms to the way judges are appointed risks politicising the judiciary and threatening standards.”
The Times, 20th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Bereaved families cannot generally claim legal aid for inquests or it will ‘risk imposing an unjustified burden’ on the system, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.”
The Times, 20th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“English libel law itself could face scrutiny in a US court, in a case brought by a US author in New York.”
The Guardian, 19th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers are warning employers that they could be laying themselves open to large compensation claims if they force workers to retire at 65 – even though the current law allows them to do so.”
The Guardian, 19th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Babies made by cloning techniques from the DNA of two women could be born within 10 years as ministers prepare to give the green light for embryos produced by biological material from three ‘parents’. A new law, to be debated in the House of Commons tomorrow (19 November), opens the door for such hybrid eggs to be implanted in women.”
The Independent, 18th November 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Britain’s leading Roman Catholic churchman gives warning today that the role of a father in a child’s life will be undermined by legislation to make it easier for lesbian couples to become parents to test-tube babies.”
The Times, 19th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Fewer sick and disabled people will qualify for disability benefits for being unable to work, after a new test is introduced from next year.”
BBC News, 19th November 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Plans to increase penalty points for speeding motorists could ‘criminalise’ a large section of the UK’s workforce, driving instructors have warned.”
BBC News, 19th November 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An Asian police officer who claims his colleagues framed him for theft after he sued his force for racism is to have his criminal conviction quashed today.”
The Guardian, 19th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An octogenarian woman and her son were sentenced on Friday for one of the largest, longest lasting and most diverse art scams ever in Britain, forging paintings, sculptures, carvings and statues.”
Reuters, 16th November 2007
Source: www.reuters.com
“A judge has launched an extraordinary attack on the laws governing the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, describing them as ‘antiquated rubbish’.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Gordon Brown’s hopes of forging a political consensus over extending detention without charge beyond 28 days are expected to be dealt a heavy blow by the former attorney general Lord Goldsmith. In a meeting with the home affairs select committee next week, he is expected to say he has seen no evidence to justify the extension, and reveal that he was close to resignation when Tony Blair pushed for 90-day detention in 2005 before being thwarted by a backbench rebellion.”
The Guardian, 17th Novemeber 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Victims of miscarriages of justice will have to spend longer in prison before their cases are reviewed because of government spending cuts, the head of the body that reviews such cases said yesterday.”
The Guardian, 17th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Gordon Brown risks angering Whitehall mandarins by trying to prevent them publishing their memoirs after they leave the Civil Service.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Britain’s most senior judge has given warning that the shortage of prison spaces was now ‘critical’ as a result of ministers’ failure to take account of the cost implications of their sentencing policies.”
The Times, 16th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A ‘most wanted’ website showing images of sex offenders has marked its first anniversary by posting age-progressed photographs of people it is hunting.”
BBC News, 16th November 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A legal battle is being launched to force the Government’s health watchdog to stop defining so-called ‘yuppie flu’ as a mental illness.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th November 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Banks have been accused of condoning criminal behaviour among customers by allowing them to exceed their agreed overdraft limits.”
The Times, 16th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Alcoholic workers could receive protection from the Disability Discrimination Act despite the fact that alcoholism is specifically barred from protection, employment experts have said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th November 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“A hospital responsible for a series of failings that led to a superbug outbreak which claimed 33 lives will not face criminal prosecution, it was announced yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th November 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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