“A police force which failed to carry out a thorough investigation into a rape case has been told by the Crown Prosecution Service to reopen the inquiry.”
The Guardian, 9th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The founder of a website offering sperm to lesbians wanting children has been jailed for 16 months for fraud at Wood Green Crown Court in north London.”
BBC News, 8th April 2008
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” The legality of the licences that allowed the creation of Britain’s first human-animal hybrid embryos is to be challenged by a Christian group, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 8th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Five teenagers have been found guilty of killing 16-year-old schoolboy Kodjo Yenga.”
BBC News, 8th April 2008
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“The government acted unlawfully in changing immigration rules for highly skilled workers who want to stay in the UK, the High Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 8th April 2008
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“Search engines must delete search logs after six months if they are to comply with data protection laws, according to a committee of EU countries’ privacy watchdogs. Google has said that the findings do not take account of commercial reality.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th April 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“The civil action by relatives of the Omagh bomb victims against the Real IRA is an attack on terrorists unprecedented anywhere in the world, the lawyer representing the families said yesterday. On the opening day of a case brought by some of the relatives of those who were killed or injured in the 1998 atrocity, Lord Brennan QC said: ‘For the first time the victims of terrorism are suing the alleged perpetrators … private citizens are confronting terrorists in our courts.'”
The Guardian, 8th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK Government wants to sign up to a European Regulation which would standardise how the law is applied in cross-border contractual disputes, it has said. The Regulation, known as Rome I, replaces existing rules governing such disputes.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th April 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“A solicitor who stole £1.25 million from a client left paralysed by a traffic accident was jailed yesterday for ten years for what the judge described as the ‘very worst breach of trust for a professional man’.”
The Times, 8th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Plans to put disruptive families through expensive so-called sin bin programmes to improve their behaviour are proving a costly failure, it has been claimed.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Plans to jail personal data thieves have been shelved due to a surprise amendment to a proposed new law. The new law will contain a clause threatening jail, but that clause will not be implemented.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th April 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“A £100,000 cannabis-dealing trial, launched following a high-profile police raid on a Rastafarian temple in south London, has collapsed in legal confusion.”
The Guardian, 8th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed by the reckless driving of their chauffeur, Henri Paul, and the paparazzi who chased them, jurors in the inquest into their deaths decided today.”
The Guardian, 7th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A mother who kept her son in a wheelchair for five years and convinced him and doctors that he could not walk has been jailed for four years.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A lawyer who stabbed his wife to death after she told him she was leaving him has been released after serving less than half of his sentence.”
BBC News, 7th April 2008
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“The coroner at the inquest into Princess Diana’s death has authorised the jury to return a majority verdict.”
BBC News, 7th April 2008
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“Lucas’s business empire claims that it owns all the rights to the uniforms, while the lawyers at Simmons Cooper Andrew will argue that the rights are in fact vested in an obscure prop designer from Twickenham who made the first helmets and suits for the 1977 film.”
The Times, 7th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A landmark decision to ban a film showing Christ being caressed on the cross on the grounds that it was blasphemous could be reversed after almost 20 years.”
The Observer, 6th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Gordon Brown is considering repealing the 1701 Act of Settlement as a way of healing a historic injustice by ending the prohibition against Catholics taking the throne.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Legislation against selling, making, hiring or importing samurai swords in England and Wales has come into force.”
BBC News, 6th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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