‘Shops selling illegal vapes and the sale of vaping products to children are the top threats on the UK’s High Streets, according to Trading Standards officials.’
BBC News, 19th January 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The chief executive of BrewDog has paid out almost £500,000 from his own pocket to winners of a bungled “solid gold” beer can promotion which he has admitted made the controversial brewer look “dishonest and disingenuous”.’
The Guardian, 9th January 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Emma-Louise Fenelon speaks with Jonathan Jones about recent developments in UK public law and the Constitution. The discussion covers recent political turbulence, the Union, the Northern Ireland Protocol, Judicial Review reforms, Human Rights Act reforms and standards and ethics in public life.’
Law Pod UK, 12th December 2022
Source: audioboom.com
‘On 10 November 2022 the UN Human Rights Council conducted its fourth Universal Periodic Review of the UK’s compliance with international human rights standards. The Council’s report was adopted just six days later and contained no fewer than 302 recommendations from other States on how the UK could improve its human rights record. That figure is up from 227 in 2017. For early accounts of the review meeting see the pieces by Marcial Boo and Robert Booth.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 5th December 2022
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has promised the frontline legal regulators “greater autonomy” in the framework it will use to assess regulators’ progress.’
Legal Futures, 8th November 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The advertising regulator is to crack down on “hot air” environmental claims amid consumer confusion around terms such as “carbon neutral” and “net zero”.’
The Independent, 20th October 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The families of three men murdered by Stephen Port have received payments from the Met Police over its “investigatory failings”.’
BBC News, 30th August 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Lawyers have reacted with scepticism at the suggestion that Lord Chancellor Dominic Raab wants to “extend” higher rights of audience to more criminal defence solicitors.’
Legal Futures, 25th August 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘More must be done to help prevent body image dissatisfaction, including putting logos on some filtered images and new training standards for people who provide certain cosmetic procedures, MPs have said.’
The Independent, 2nd August 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘An inadequate care firm put clients at risk of avoidable harm and failed to obtain required recruitment information for some staff, inspectors found.’
BBC News, 2nd August 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Construction companies contracted to design and build cladding systems for buildings may have to pick up the cost of replacing those systems in light of a new ruling by the High Court in London.’
OUT-LAW.com, 25th July 2022
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The Constitution Unit publishes the results of a landmark investigation into the independence and accountability of parliament’s watchdogs.’
UCL Constitution Unit, 12th July 2022
Source: www.ucl.ac.uk
‘A housing provider specialising in shared ownership which operates in more than 190 local authority areas in the United Kingdom is under investigation by the Regulator of Social Housing over financial and governance compliance concerns.’
Local Government Lawyer, 12th July 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The current Prime Minister’s long running battle with the Seven Principles of Public Life continues to gather pace. Boris Johnson’s actions relating to the pandemic “partygate” scandal have arguably violated each of the principles established by the Nolan Committee in 1995: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership. The Prime Minister’s full house of ethical violations concerning his attendance and subsequent denials of social gatherings held in Downing Street, contrary to lockdown restrictions, have also yielded Fixed Penalty Notices from the police for him, his Chancellor, his wife, and other government officials, with the prospect of more to follow. Yet the Prime Minister remains committed to staying in post, and has refused to resign.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 27th April 2022
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘A BBC News programme has been found to have breached “broadcast standards” due to it featuring an inaccurate statement which was not acknowledged or corrected on air, Ofcom has said.’
The Independent, 7th March 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A leading London private school has been downgraded by Ofsted for placing more weight on teaching “social justice” than on learning “subject-specific knowledge and skills” while some pupils felt their views were “suppressed” in lessons.’
The Independent, 7th March 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Between 1997 and 2011 there were “failures across the entire healthcare system” which included failures of a healthcare regulatory system, and failures of colleagues and managers of the disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson. These failures allowed his “shocking” malpractice to go unchecked.’
Mills & Reeve, 31st January 2022
Source: www.mills-reeve.com
‘The death of a five-year-old boy in Oldham at the end of last year is being reviewed, a council has confirmed.’
BBC News, 27th January 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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