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Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on October 13, 2008
The Sustainable Communities Regulations 2008 The Landfill Tax (Material from Contaminated Land) (Phasing out of Exemption) Order 2008 The European Single Currency (Taxes) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 The Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (Commencement No...

Menezes officer changed evidence - BBC News

Posted on October 13, 2008
“An investigation has begun after a senior officer admitted changing evidence during the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes.” Full story BBC News, 13th October 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Gardener arrested and taken to court for carrying work scythe in van - Daily Telegraph

Posted on October 10, 2008
“A judge has ordered the Crown Prosecution Service to make a public apology to a gardener who was arrested and taken to court for carrying a scythe which he said he needed for his work.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 9th October 2008 Source: www...

Firearms officers to be banned from collaborating on shooting statements - Daily Telegraph

Posted on October 10, 2008
“The Daily Telegraph understands that draft rules for the official police manual are expected to stop marksmen from writing their statements together after critical incidents ? changing a practice accepted through case law for more than 50 years...

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Labour peers urge Brown to back down in detention fight - The Guardian

Posted on October 10, 2008
“The new leader of the House of Lords is to ask Gordon Brown to drop plans to force through the detention of terror suspects for up to 42 days.” Full story The Guardian, 10th October 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Regina v Guy?s and St Thomas?s NHS Trust - Times Law Reports

Posted on October 10, 2008
Regina v Guy?s and St Thomas?s NHS Trust Court of Appeal “It was against the public interest to punish by a large fine a not-for-profit organisation, carrying out work for the public benefit, where a failing occurred without fault on the part of that body, but through an act or default of an employee, to whom [...

Cantrell v Wycombe District Council - Times Law Reports

Posted on October 10, 2008
Cantrell v Wycombe District Council Court of Appeal “An agreement by a housing association with a local authority to house council-nominated tenants in its property was a positive obligation which could not be enforced against a subsequent buyer of the property...

BAILII - Recent Decisions

Posted on October 10, 2008
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) S & Anor, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 2177 (09 October 2008) High Court (Administrative Court) Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals (RSPCA), R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2008] EWHC 2321 (Admin) (07 October 2008) High Court (Family Division) M & Anor [...

Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents - WLR Daily

Posted on October 10, 2008
Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents [2008] EWCA Civ 1066; [2008] WLR (D) 310 “A patent application concerning a method of accessing data in a dynamic link library in a computing device was not excluded from registration under s 1(2)(c) of the Patents Act 1977 on the ground that it related to a computer program [...

St George v Home Office - WLR Daily

Posted on October 10, 2008
St George v Home Office [2008] EWCA Civ 1068; [2008] WLR (D) 309 “When a person who was an addict suffered a seizure while he was in custody as a result of withdrawal from addiction, and then fell and suffered injury, regard was to be had, when considering the claimant?s possible contributory negligence and whether the [...

Online complaints plan on hold - Law Society?s Gazette

Posted on October 10, 2008
“Controversial plans to publish complaints against solicitors online have been shelved. In a long-awaited decision, the Legal Complaints Service (LCS) this week said it still favours the idea ? but passed responsibility for any scheme to its successor body, which comes into being in 2010...

Public Guardian Board open meeting - Ministry of Justice

Posted on October 10, 2008
“Justice Minister Bridget Prentice has given a speech at the first open meeting of the Public Guardian Board, a body set up under the Mental Capacity Act to scrutinise and review the work of the Office of the Public Guardian.” Full press release Ministry of Justice, 8th October 2008 Source: www...

Reducing reoffending in London - Ministry of Justice

Posted on October 10, 2008
“A consultation setting out proposed priorities for the delivery of prison and probation services in the capital and the joint work between agencies to reduce reoffending.” Full press release Ministry of Justice, 8th October 2008 Source: www...

Attorney General welcomes independent report on Fraud Prosecutions Service - Attorney General?s Office

Posted on October 10, 2008
“Attorney General welcomes independent report on Fraud Prosecutions Service.” Full press release Attorney General’s Office, 9th October 2008 Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk

MPs? smacking ban attempt fails - BBC News

Posted on October 10, 2008
“A cross-party group of MPs has failed to force through a ban on smacking children in England and Wales.” Full story BBC News, 8th October 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Council fined over theatre safety - BBC News

Posted on October 10, 2008
“A council has been fined a maximum £45,000 after a teacher fell down a lift shaft backstage at a theatre while preparing for the Urdd eisteddfod.” Full story BBC News, 9th October 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Half of state schools are breaking admissions rules, inquiry finds - The Guardian

Posted on October 10, 2008
“Half of state schools in England are in breach of new rules on admissions, according to the chief adjudicator, Sir Philip Hunter.” Full story The Guardian, 10th October 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Apology over Pc ?killer? report - BBC News

Posted on October 10, 2008
“A Met police officer has accepted a public apology over a false claim that he ran down and killed a teenage thief.” Full story BBC News, 9th October 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Elderly in private care homes win better rights - Daily Telegraph

Posted on October 10, 2008
“Pensioners and their families will benefit from a new complaints system and tougher inspections for their homes.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 10th October 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Lost data: Details of 100,000 Armed Forces personnel missing - Daily Telegraph

Posted on October 10, 2008
“A computer hard drive with the private details of 100,000 members of the Armed Forces is missing, the Ministry of Defence has said.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 10th October 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Pitcairn victims of child sex abuse win compensation - The Guardian

Posted on October 10, 2008
“Victims of child sex abuse on Pitcairn island, the remote British outpost in the South Pacific, will receive compensation from the British government, the Foreign Office announced yesterday.” Full story The Guardian, 10th October 2008 Source: www...

NHS complaints going unheeded - The Guardian

Posted on October 10, 2008
“The NHS in England is failing to learn from more than 130,000 complaints it receives each year from patients, parliament’s spending watchdog said today.” Full story The Guardian, 10th October 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Rail damage graffiti group jailed - BBC News

Posted on October 10, 2008
“Four graffiti vandals have been jailed after admitting causing an estimated £50,000 of damage to trains and chaos to services in the South East.” Full story BBC News, 10th October 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Care worker jailed for two rapes - BBC News

Posted on October 10, 2008
“A care worker who admitted raping two women, one of them a psychiatric hospital patient, has been sentenced to an indeterminate jail term.” Full story BBC News, 10th October 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Devoted husband who suffocated wife is spared jail - Daily Telegraph

Posted on October 10, 2008
“A retired civil servant who suffocated his seriously ill wife with a plastic bag as she lay in her hospital bed has been spared jail.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 10th October 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Alleged Holocaust denier fights extradition to Germany - The Guardian

Posted on October 10, 2008
“An Australian revisionist historian wanted in Germany for alleged Holocaust denial was today greeted in court with a Nazi salute from the public gallery.” Full story The Guardian, 10th October 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Police inquiry into barrister shooting is lawful, says judge - The Guardian

Posted on October 10, 2008
“A high court judge today dismissed a claim by the family of the barrister Mark Saunders that the investigation into his shooting by police was unlawful.” Full story The Guardian, 10th October 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Killer of champion boxer James Oyebola is jailed for life - The Guardian

Posted on October 09, 2008
“The gunman who shot dead the former British boxing champion James Oyebola in a row over smoking was jailed for life today.” Full story The Guardian, 9th October 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Judge orders BBC payout in libel battle with IVF doctor Mohamed Taranissi - The Guardian

Posted on October 09, 2008
“The high court ordered the BBC to pay an estimated £500,000 in costs to IVF specialist Mohamed Taranissi today in his continuing libel action over a Panorama programme.” Full story The Guardian, 8th October 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Does judging still have appeal? - The Times

Posted on October 09, 2008
“It has been a good week for the cause of diversity among Britain?s judges. Just months ago one of only three of 36 Court of Appeal judges lamented the lack of women in senior judicial posts. In the past three years, Lady Justice Arden said, only one woman had been chosen for the High Court [...

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