“As the dust from the Civil Justice reforms begins to settle, it appears that Parliamentary counsel have slipped another consultation through in the background. Published in March this year, it appears innocuous enough, but on further consideration raises a number of significant concerns. I also question why this report was even necessary. Parliamentary austerity and wholesale changes to the legal profession should have lent caution to the writers of the report, given that this can be construed as a real attack upon the legal profession. Ill-timed and badly thought out, the principle will be applauded by businesses that will look at the superficial benefits but not appreciate the issues, and is therefore convenient politically.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 25th June 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexhange.co.uk
“Margaret Hodge says government must make clear deals should not stop whistleblowers from speaking out, after NAO report.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“More than 9,000 mentally ill people a year are being detained in police custody despite official guidance that such powers should be used only in exceptional circumstances, watchdogs say.”
The Guardian, 20th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Senior bankers guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed, a long-awaited report on banking commissioned by the government has recommended.”
BBC News, 19th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Government-backed efficiency report seeks to answer some of the criticisms of national infrastructure policy, while highlighting some important new initiatives, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th June 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Divorce cases have prompted the most complaints about lawyers in the last year with individuals being urged to shop around for legal advice.”
BBC News, 13th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“All consumers of legal services – using a broad definition that includes ‘linked professional services and advice that has a legal dimension’ – should have access to the Legal Ombudsman (LeO), its chairman said today.”
Legal Futures, 13th June 2013
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“Women will be passed information about the past of a violent partner in an initiative being considered by a police force where nine people have died in domestic violence homicides in four years.”
The Guardian, 13th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A cross-party group of MPs has called for an urgent review of new immigration rules, which they claim are tearing hundreds of British families apart. Their inquiry report shows that a new minimum earnings rule of £18,600 a year, which came into effect last July, has meant that thousands of British citizens, including people with full-time jobs, have been unable to bring a non-European husband, wife or partner to live with them in Britain.”
The Guardian, 10th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There has been a lot of commentary on the Report of the Bill of Rights’ Commission, and the ‘damp squib’ analysis of the Report (see Mark Elliott) as a whole is one most commentators appear to assent to (see eg Joshua Rozenberg for the Guardian here). My view in general is that the squib could reignite post-2015 if a Conservative government is elected, not in relation to the very hesitant ideas as to the possible future content of a Bill of Rights that the Report put forward, but in relation to its majority recommendation that there should be one (see further my previous post on the Commission Report here). If a BoR was to emerge under a Conservative government post-2015 I suggest that it would reflect the ideas of the Conservative nominees on the Commission which assumed a far more concrete form in the Report than the majority recommendations did (eg see here at p 192). This blog post due to its length is not intended to examine the probable nature of such a BoR based on those ideas in general, but to focus only on two aspects: the idea of curtailing the effects of an equivalent to Article 8 ECHR (right to respect for private and family life), and of requiring domestic courts to disapply Strasbourg jurisprudence under a BoR in a wider range of situations than at present under s2HRA (see Roger Masterman’s post on s2 on this blog here). In respect of the latter issue the potential impact of so doing will only be linked to selected aspects of Article 8 jurisprudence of especial actual and potential benefit to women.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 5th June 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
“Charities should be forced to rein in the use of High Street fund-raisers known as ‘chuggers’ or face state regulation, a cross-party committee of MPs has concluded.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Inspectors of police service and prosecutors have called for decisive action to streamline the criminal justice process and end ‘the spectre of unnecessary bureaucracy’.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th June 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Two children at a privately-run Young Offenders Institution had their arms broken by staff last year during routine strip searches, a report by the Prison Inspectorate has revealed.”
The Independent, 4th June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The British government’s human rights record since the attacks of 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq is facing ferocious criticism from a United Nations panel, which warns that prompt action is needed to ensure the country meets its obligations under international law.”
The Guardian, 31st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In Digital Opportunity, A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth Professor Ian Hargreaves made 10 recommendations for IP policy which I discussed at length in “IP Policy: Does Hargreaves say Anything New?” 24 June 2011. Some of those recommendations required primary legislation. Others did not. As I said in my article, Hargreaves was not the first review of IP policy in recent years and most of the previous ones had been left to gather dust. I suspected the same would happen to Hargreaves.”
NIPC Law, 28th May 2013
Source: www.nipclaw.blogspot.co.uk
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