“Companies that are required to undertake equal pay audits would not be required to make the results of those audits public, the Government has proposed.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Four in 10 people think judges should give tougher sentences in some violent cases such as manslaughter, a Ministry of Justice study has suggested.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Former senior managers at Rochdale Borough Council did not do enough to stop the grooming and sexual abuse of children, a report has found.”
BBC News, 24th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A new report into the child sex grooming scandal in Rochdale is a ‘damning indictment’ of the local council, the town’s MP said.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A catalogue of mistakes by an out-of-hours GP service and a hospital contributed to the death of a young woman with physical and learning disabilities, the NHS ombudsman says on Tuesday in a highly critical report that has led to fresh claims of prejudicial attitudes leading to poor care for such vulnerable patients.”
The Guardian, 21st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“CPR Pt 35 controlled the giving of evidence by experts as so defined and did not control the admission of other types of evidence which might be described as expert evidence.”
WLR Daily, 15th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Police in England and Wales have taken DNA samples from children every 10 minutes, figures obtained using freedom of information requests suggest.”
BBC News, 20th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The official police watchdog made a series of errors in an investigation which cleared officers over the death of a man in custody, an independent report has found.”
The Guardian, 17th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Theresa May): In accordance with section 20(2), 20(3), 20(4) and 20(5) of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation (David Anderson QC) prepared a report on the operation of the Act in 2012, which I laid before the House on 14 March 2013.”
Home Office, 16th May 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
“The system of civil court orders designed to prevent sexual abuse of children in Britain is ‘not fit for purpose’, according to a report obtained by the BBC.”
BBC News, 14th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Costs Management Pilot Scheme (the ‘Pilot’) was launched in all Technology and Construction Courts (‘TCC’) and Mercantile Courts on 1 October 2011. The Pilot applies to any case which has its first case management conference on or after 1 October 2011.”
Judiciary of England & Wales, 10th May 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“New laws should be drafted to set specific rules around data protection in employment relations, a new report has recommended.”
OUT-LAW.com, 9th May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Report examined the history of Savile’s relationship with the force and concluded there is no evidence he was protected by police officers.”
The Independent, 10th May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The time it takes for the family courts to make decisions about whether children should be taken in to care or adopted has been cut.”
BBC News, 4th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The first Commission into Sex in Prisons has drawn attention to a rarely reported issue.”
The Independent, 6th May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Annual Report of the Office of the Head of International Family Justice for England and Wales: 2012.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 1st May 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“The absence of ‘metadata’ from digital files will not automatically mean that
creative material would be ‘orphan works’, the Intellectual Property Office
(IPO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 2nd May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The cosmetic interventions sector is widely unregulated and rapidly growing. Claims arising out of procedures going wrong – from non-surgical ‘high street’ treatments to invasive surgical procedures – are on the increase. Today [24 April] sees the long awaited publication of the Department of Health review, led by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, of the regulation of cosmetic interventions.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 24th April 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
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