“No government reforms can ‘make good the evil’ that happened to Baby P, the children’s secretary, Ed Balls, said today.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government last night moved to tighten its commitment to the 80% reduction of carbon emissions by the year 2050, introducing a safeguard that a limit be placed on reductions achieved by buying international offsetting credits.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A policeman who posted abusive comments on a website, which appeared to condone the use of violence, has been fined by his force.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“DLA’s head of competition, who was born on a fairground, says that competition watchdogs will only get more active.”
The Times, 17th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Immigration minister Phil Woolas has attacked lawyers and charities working on behalf of asylum seekers, accusing them of undermining the law and ‘playing the system’. In an interview with the Guardian, Woolas described the legal professionals and NGO workers as ‘an industry’, and said most asylum seekers were not fleeing persecution but were economic migrants.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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“Hundreds of victims of the Buncefield fire moved closer to an initial payout today after a judge instructed the oil depot’s operator to make them a ‘sensible and generous’ offer.”
The Times, 17th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An inquest is to be opened into the death of a woman murdered by a convicted rapist who had used the Human Rights Act to convince a panel he should be freed from jail.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Magistrates gave warning yesterday that the criminal justice system is being ‘undermined’ because thousands of serious offences are being processed by police using fixed penalty notices away from public scrutiny.”
The Times, 17th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A member of the Court of Appeal has argued that only rare or occasional criminal cases should be heard by the new Supreme Court because its judges are too out of touch.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A report seen by The Times supports the adoption of US-style contingency deals in which lawyers take their fees out of damages won for clients.”
The Times, 18th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police yesterday claimed a limited success in the fight against knife crime, citing a 12% fall in incidents since May, but at the price of long-term resentment over the widespread use of stop-and-search needed to achieve it.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A leading judge has told the BBC he fears a conflict of interest as courts increasingly depend on income from fines and confiscations to operate.”
BBC News, 18th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Britain’s highest-earning solicitor acted dishonestly and with ‘conscious impropriety’ in dealings with a mining union that led to his firm handling thousands of industrial disease compensation claims, a tribunal heard yesterday.”
The Times, 18th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Legal advice given to Tony Blair prior to the invasion of Iraq was fundamentally ‘flawed’, a former senior law lord said today.”
The Independent, 18th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The award-winning designer of the troubled B of the Bang sculpture has agreed to pay back £1.7 million of taxpayers’ money.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two solicitors who won personal injury claims for thousands of miners have appeared before a tribunal accused of taking cuts from compensation pay-outs.”
BBC News, 17th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A mother is suing her barrister daughter for libel over a book which accused her of childhood abuse and neglect.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Gordon Brown has refused to rule out a change in the law that may see everyone considered as a potential organ donor, despite the recommendations of his advisers today.”
The Times, 17th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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