“A man was convicted yesterday of plotting the murder of his former friend on a mobile phone from his cell in a high security prison.”
The Guardian, 17th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Police community support officers should be given extended powers that would allow them to be able to detain suspects for the first time, Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, said yesterday.”
The Independent, 17th October 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A thief with more than 40 previous convictions has been banned from every car park in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 16th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A bus driver has been convicted of murdering his 19-year-old son after an argument at their Norfolk flat.”
BBC News, 16th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A key plank of the Government’s plans to tackle alcohol-fuelled disorder introduced two years ago has still not been used.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A High Court judge will rule on case that has set three siblings against each other since the death of their father Douglas Firkin-Flood in 200.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for life for the murder of a fellow Lithuanian whose skull was discovered in the garden of a house in north-west London.”
BBC News, 16th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“People caught having sex in public should only be arrested as a last resort, according to draft guidelines being issued to police.”
BBC News, 16th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The days of soft-touch regulation of the City are over, the head of the financial watchdog said yesterday, as he revealed that a new cadre of higher-paid regulators would ask tougher questions about the health of financial institutions in the wake of the credit crisis.”
The Guardian, 17th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s 40-year-old abortion law flouts the legal principles that underpin modern medical practice, 85 academic lawyers and ethicists say today.”
The Times, 17th October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A mother who claimed her daughter was too old and too big to be forced to go to school has been sentenced.”
BBC News, 16th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A cannabis user who stabbed his girlfriend to death after becoming convinced she was part of a plot to kill him has been jailed for murder.”
BBC News, 16th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Outgoing Ofcom chairman David Currie has said that his successor should expect the communications regulator to have an expanded remit with responsibility for stricter control over internet content.”
The Guardian, 16th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Organisations involved in Employment Tribunals will have their identities published after a ruling by privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ruling reinstates a practice that was discontinued in 2001.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th October 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
AS (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 1118 (15 October 2008)
High Court (Administrative Division)
Source: www.bailii.org.uk
The Double Taxation Relief (Surrender of Relievable Tax Within a Group) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The European Communities (Designation) (No. 3) Order 2008
The Income Tax (Deposit-takers and Building Societies) (Interest Payments) Regulations 2008
The Income Tax (Interest Payments) (Information Powers) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Amusement Machine Licence Duty, etc (Amendments) Regulations 2008
The Discipline of Judges (Designation) Order 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“Jack Straw has made a statement on the UK’s anti-corruption strategy following his appointment as the government’s anti-corruption champion.”
Ministry of Justice, 15th October 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Responses to Ministry of Justice consultation paper: Bail and Murder.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 15th October 2008
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Saying terrorists ‘wish to kill British people anywhere in the world’ the Home Secretary called for greater powers to track down and prosecute terrorists.”
Home Office, 15th Ocotber 2008
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
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