‘Solicitor advocate Caitriona McLaughlin fears government cuts will deter firms from taking loss-making magistrates court cases.’
The Guardian, 27th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A GP who took intimate pictures of women and children who were his patients has been struck off the medical register.’
BBC News, 27th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘This is the sad tale of a young woman aged 31 dying in mysterious circumstances where the inquest went off entirely on the wrong footing. Joanne Foreman was not a diabetic but lived with a young boy who was. It was suspected that on the night before she died she had drunk heavily and then injected herself with insulin. The inquest proceeded on this basis. Nobody told the expert that the paramedics had taken a blood glucose from Joanne, which was entirely normal. Once this was known, it was obvious that the court would quash the findings at inquest and order a new inquest.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th February 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A man who killed an organist who was walking to church has lost an appeal against his minimum 25-year tariff.’
BBC News, 27th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Child Maltreatment Bill has barely progressed towards the statute book – and perhaps with good reason.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 27th February 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘David Cameron has ordered a review into secret police letters promising immunity to Northern Ireland terrorist suspects, but said he does not want to unpick parts of the 1998 peace deal that introduced the scheme.’
The Guardian, 27th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A Suffolk couple who were unaware that they had purchased a house near a speedway stadium were entitled to obtain an injunction against the noise from the site, regardless of the fact that the stadium had been operating for years before they moved in, the Supreme Court has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 27th February 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Up to 240 prosecutions a year alleging wilful neglect or ill-treatment of patients could take place under a new criminal offence to be introduced in England following the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal, the government says.’
The Guardian, 27th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Gamblers in England and Wales will be able to set their own limits on time and money spent on high-stakes gaming machines in betting shops.’
BBC News, 28th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘“Inappropriate” emails sent by staff at an NHS trust caused offence and distress to a family who had already lost their baby because of avoidable lapses in his care, the health service ombudsman has said.’
The Independent, 27th February 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘In the current moral panic about neknominate and people dropping dead after drinking two pints of gin, the “something must be done brigade” are suggesting that one of the things that might be done is to hold neknominators criminally responsible for their actions and the deaths of their neknominees.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 26th February 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘The Supplementary Protection Certificate. A marvellous little device for giving back to a patent owner the lost years during which it has been obtaining regulatory approval for its products in those heavily regulated areas: pharmaceuticals and plant protection products. You simply extend the patent by the number of years that the product has spent caught up in the approval process, and there you are. A gain of up to five valuable years on the end of your patent in the prime of the product’s life.’
Technology Law Update, 26th February 2014
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
‘The Director of Public Prosecutions has today instructed prosecutors not to dismiss complaints about crimes allegedly committed decades ago just because of the lapse in time of reporting, in a shift of focus towards ensuring potential victims have their day in court.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 27th February 2014
Source: http://blog.cps.gov.uk
‘Some FOIA ‘mantras’ frustrate requesters, such as judging matters as at the time of the request/refusal, regardless of subsequent events. Others tend to frustrate public authorities, such as ‘motive blindness’. A recent Tribunal discusses and illustrates both principles – in the context of the distress (including a danger to mental health) likely to arise from disclosure.’
Panopticon, 26th February 2014
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
‘The Court of Appeal has rejected on all grounds a claim that the cap on housing benefit amounted to unlawful discrimination against women.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th February 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The two terrorists who murdered British soldier Lee Rigby on a south London street fought with guards yesterday in the dock of the court yards from the grieving family of the soldier they butchered as a judge sentenced the mastermind of the attack to die in prison.’
The Guardian, 26th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Local authorities no longer run many of our publicly funded schools in England but still have plenty to occupy them in the education field. They have a role in the setting up of new academies. They still run their maintained community schools. In Wales, they remain the Welsh government’s preferred providers of state education. They have intervention powers and can suspend a school’s delegated budget.’
11 KBW, 24th February 2014
Source: www.11kbw.com
‘More than 10,000 women and children are at high risk of being murdered or seriously injured by current or former partners, according to police assessments obtained by the Guardian.’
The Guardian, 26th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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