“The Law Society’s aggressive cost-cutting campaign is to lead to another round of job cuts, it has emerged, as Chancery Lane bids to reposition itself as a substantial commercial enterprise.”
Legal Week, 28th June 2007
Source: www.legalweek.com
“A record number of people are due to have their claims for the return of bank overdraft charges dealt with at Leeds Mercantile Court.”
BBC News, 28th June 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is expected to give its reaction later to criticisms made at an inquest into the deaths of four cyclists. ”
BBC News, 28th June 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Financial Services Authority today unveiled plans for a wide-ranging shake-up of the financial services industry, but critics say it has not gone far enough.”
The Times, 27th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Utility companies and their shareholders breathed more easily on Wednesday when Britain’s top court ruled that they were not liable for certain environmental liabilities – including site clean-up costs – of their predecessor entities.”
Financial Times, 27th June 2007
Source: www.ft.com
“The parents of a student who killed herself after developing anorexia at college have called for a change in the law after data protection legislation prevented tutors from telling her family she was sick.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th June 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Criminals convicted of attempted murder should serve as little as 40 per cent of the sentence that would have been imposed if they had successfully claimed a life, sentencing advisers said today.”
The Times, 28th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A wealthy retired builder was ordered to pay more money to the woman he divorced nearly 30 years ago after a judge heard she had “fallen on hard times”, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday.”
The Times, 28th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Government’s plans to limit requests under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act should be blocked, according to a parliamentary committee. It also said that watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) should be better funded.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th June 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“Thousands more convicts are to spend less time in jail as a result of law and order measures published by the Government yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th June 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Progress has been made in the first year, but overall the verdict is ‘improving – but can do better’.”
The Times, 25th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Unmarried fathers who admit paternity of a child but refuse to register on the birth certificate could be fined under new proposals.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th June 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Child Support Agency today ‘named and shamed’ 40 parents who were successfully prosecuted for refusing to take financial responsibility for their children.”
The Guardian, 26th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“After nearly 200 years the stigmatising legal term “common prostitute” which dates back to the 1824 Vagrancy Act is to be removed from the statute book, under a package of criminal justice reforms unveiled yesterday.”
The Guardian, 27th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Attorney-General yesterday demanded an inquiry into the use of torture by British soldiers in Iraq in 2003 which led to the death in custody of Baha Musa, an Iraqi civilian arrested during an arms search. Lord Goldsmith, QC, said it was “inexplicable” that banned techniques were being used when soldiers and officers must have realised they breached the Geneva Conventions.”
The Times, 27th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Old Square Chambers is heading to the Court of Appeal in a case that could see a two-tier approach to the enforcement of claims in respect of the Race Relations Act 1976.”
The Lawyer, 25th June 2007
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The College of Law’s plan to dominate legal education has moved up a gear after it struck a major deal with 30 law firms to provide a pioneering training programme for its junior corporate lawyers.”
The Lawyer, 25th June 2007
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The government’s medicines watchdog was accused today of “irrationally and unlawfully” withholding drugs which could help thousands of people suffering from early-stage dementia.”
The Times, 25th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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