“The privately-owned College of Law has been granted university status and will be renamed ‘The University of Law’, it has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th November 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“In a groundbreaking move, it was revealed that the College of Law, the country’s largest provider of legal education and training, had been granted full university status. It is the first private university to be established since Buckingham – officially a charity – was awarded the full title almost 30 years ago. But it the first time a profit-making organisation has been turned into a university.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Newly-qualified solicitor Sayo Ogundele shares his advice on how to kickstart your career in law while at university.”
The Guardian, 8th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“EU ministers have voted to back new laws that will allow for libraries, museums and universities, among other organisations, to digitise works from their collections that have become ‘orphaned.’ ”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th October 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“University seeks judicial review after losing highly trusted status for sponsoring international students.”
The Guardian, 11th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A London university is to launch legal action against the UK Border Agency’s decision to revoke its licence to sponsor international students.”
BBC News, 3rd September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Damian Green answers an urgent question on London Metropolitan University in Parliament.”
Home Office, 3rd September 2012
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has revoked London Metropolitan University’s power to teach or recruit international students, leaving nearly 3,000 students facing deportation unless they can find another place to study within 60 days.”
The Guardian, 30th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Owen Holland, the Cambridge PhD student suspended by Cambridge University for two and half years for a protest against cuts, had his sentence cut to one term yesterday.”
The Independent, 23rd June 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government is being urged to prevent universities being bought by private equity firms after the College of Law, a charity that provides teaches law courses in London and six other cities across England, was sold to a private equity firm for £200m.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“More than 40,000 skilled migrants a year are to lose their right to work beyond five years in Britain, in a move towards creating a temporary ‘guestworker’ migrant labour force in the UK. The home secretary, Theresa May, will tell MPs on Wednesday that she is breaking the link between migration and settlement for the first time, by taking away the right to remain in Britain for more than five years from any migrant worker earning less than £35,000 a year.”
The Guardian, 29th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This judgment, the latest in an expanding list of decisions on challenges to the Coalition government’s spending cuts, is an interesting example of judicial restraint and deference to the government on issues of macro-policy, at a time when the extent of judicial intervention into political decision-making is the subject of much debate in the legal profession and academia, thanks to Lord Sumption’s FA Mann Lecture on the subject late last year and its recent rebuttal by Sir Stephen Sedley.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The case is a prime example of how judges’ relationship with administrative decision-making is changing.”
The Guardian, 20th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two students, Callum Hurley and Katy Moore, have failed in their High Court attempt to overturn the Government’s decision to allow universities to almost treble tuition fees.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The high court is to rule on whether ministers acted legally in allowing universities to charge tuition fees of up to £9,000 a year from this autumn.”
The Guardian, 17th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“One of the biggest universities in the UK has obtained a high court injunction that criminalises all occupation-style protests on its 250-acre campus for the next 12 months, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government will implement EU proposals that will allow charities and universities to share services without charging each other VAT, according to proposals published in today’s Finance Bill 2012.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“References provided by schools about university applicants have been rendered worthless by the Data Protection Act, a crossbench peer has told the BBC.”
BBC News, 5th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A university student is facing life imprisonment after being convicted of killing a fellow student and stuffing him into an airing cupboard.”
The Guardian, 30th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The public can now request information from three new bodies under the Freedom of Information Act.”
Ministry of Justice, 1st November 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
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