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Recent Statutory Instruments ? OPSI

Posted on July 30, 2009
The Local Justice Areas Order 2009 The Armed Forces (Powers of Stop and Search, Search, Seizure and Retention) Order 2009 The Licensing Act 2003 (Premises Licences and Club Premises Certificates) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 Source: www...

Blair to be called to Iraq war inquiry ? The Independent

Posted on July 30, 2009
“Tony Blair will be called to give evidence to the Iraq war inquiry, its chairman confirmed today.” Full story The Independent, 30th July 2009 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Man guilty of killing abused boy ? BBC News

Posted on July 30, 2009
“A man has been convicted of causing the death of his partner’s two-year-old son at their Cheshire home.” Full story BBC News, 30th July 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Met police torture claims file sent to CPS ? Daily Telegraph

Posted on July 30, 2009
“Independent investigators examining claims that Scotland Yard detectives tortured suspects in a drugs case – including accusations of ‘waterboarding’ – have passed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2009 Source: www...

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The Chambers ? BBC Radio 4

Posted on July 30, 2009
“Second of two programmes which go behind the elegant facades of legal London to meet the barristers, clerks and staff of Outer Temple Chambers, one of London’s leading law chambers.” Listen again BBC Radio 4, 28th July 2009 Source: www...

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted on July 30, 2009
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) Tuplin, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 1572 (29 July 2009) Tregalles, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 1638 (29 July 2009) Court of Appeal (Civil Division) WL Gore & Associates GmbH v Geox SPA [2009] EWCA Civ 794 (29 July 2009) Trade Electronix Ltd v Best Buy Today (Wholesale) Ltd & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ [...

Should Wendell Wilberforce Baker be tried again for rape? ? The Times

Posted on July 30, 2009
“This week the man believed guilty of an appalling rape of a 66-year-old woman in her own home will be named and the details of the crime committed 12 years ago broadcast.” Full story The Times, 28th July 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Bar Council Marks 60th Anniversary of Legal Aid Act 1949 ? The Bar Council

Posted on July 30, 2009
“The Bar Council has produced a short film to mark the 60th anniversary of the Legal Aid Act, which received Royal Assent on the 30th July 1949. The film, which is available on the Bar Council?s website, features interviews with some senior barristers who explain the importance of legal aid and reflect on the future [...

Virtual courts deliver quick and efficient justice ? Ministry of Justice

Posted on July 30, 2009
“The new virtual court pilot in Lewisham Police Station was formally opened today by Justice Ministers Bridget Prentice and Claire Ward.” Full story Ministry of Justice, 30th July 2009 Source: www.justice.gov.uk

Change of tactics demanded over drugs ? The Independent

Posted on July 30, 2009
“The battle against drugs is not winnable in the near future, a survey of police and other law enforcement agents showed today.” Full story The Independent, 30th July 2009 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Trade libel lawsuits soar ? OUT-LAW.com

Posted on July 30, 2009
“The number of defamation cases brought by businesses has trebled in the past year, according to a legal publisher. The number of defamation cases overall increased by a third in the same period.” Full story OUT-LAW.com, 30th July 2009 Source: www...

The stress of being a female lawyer ? The Times

Posted on July 30, 2009
“As a verdict of suicide is recorded on a top woman City lawyer, a female in the profession reveals the intense burdens.” Full story The Times, 30th July 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Binyam claims ?risk to UK lives? ? BBC News

Posted on July 30, 2009
“British lives could be endangered if allegations of torture of a former Guantanamo Bay inmate are published, the High Court has been told.” Full story BBC News, 29th July 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Decision day for assisted suicide law ? The Guardian

Posted on July 30, 2009
“A groundbreaking change in the law on assisted suicides could become inevitable tomorrow when the UK’s highest court delivers its judgment in the case of Debbie Purdy, whose long legal fight has put her at the centre of the controversy.” Full story The Guardian, 29th July 2009 Source: www...

Asian man who called policemen ?white redneck hooligans? is guilty of racism ? Daily Telegraph

Posted on July 30, 2009
“An Asian man who called police officers ‘white redneck hooligans’ has been found guilty of making racist remarks.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

How virtual lawyers are weathering the recession ? The Times

Posted on July 30, 2009
“Some do it for childcare. Others do it to pursue non-legal interests such as oil painting. One even combines it with presenting the weather on Sky News. But all represent a growing trend of solicitors embracing the freelance life.” Full story The Times, 30th July 2009 Source: www...

Iraq war inquiry to be launched ? BBC News

Posted on July 30, 2009
“Opposition parties are set to press for the Iraq war inquiry to be held largely in public when the long-awaited probe is officially launched later.” Full story BBC News, 30th July 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Son convicted of plot to kill over-protective parents ? Daily Telegraph

Posted on July 30, 2009
“Christopher Monks has been convicted of plotting to kill his adoptive parents with a friend he met on the internet, because he thought they were over-protective and treated him like a child.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2009 Source: www...

Farewell to the law lords ? The Times

Posted on July 30, 2009
“Today the law lords sit to give judgment for the last time in the House of Lords and, as Lord Hope of Craighead said there last week, the upper chamber will be ‘losing part of itself’. From October the law lords will become Justices of the Supreme Court, created under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005...

Paedophile who worked for Save the Children jailed ? The Guardian

Posted on July 30, 2009
“Save the Children is carrying out an inquiry into the safeguards in place on hiring its staff after an employee who led a double life as a ‘predatory and devious’ paedophile was jailed for four years.” Full story The Guardian, 29th July 2009 Source: www...

?Toxic soup? children win case ? The Independent

Posted on July 29, 2009
“A group who blame their disabilities on their mothers’ exposure to toxic materials before their birth won a legal action today against a council it blames for their condition.” Full story The Independent, 29th July 2009 Source: www...

Broads Authority Act 2009

Posted on July 29, 2009
Broads Authority Act 2009 published Full text of Act Source: www.opsi.gov.uk

Regina (G) v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Regina (N) v Secretary of State for Health ? WLR Daily

Posted on July 29, 2009
Regina (G) v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Regina (N) v Secretary of State for Health [2009] EWCA Civ 795; [2009] WLR (D) 260 “A policy of banning smoking in the premises of an NHS trust, which had the effect of prohibiting smoking for those detained in a high security psychiatric hospital, did not contravene the patients? [...

Secretary of State for the Home Department v GG ? WLR Daily

Posted on July 29, 2009
Secretary of State for the Home Department v GG [2009] EWCA Civ 786; [2009] WLR (D) 25 “There was no power to include in a control order a general requirement to submit to searches of the person.” WLR Daily, 28th July 2009 Source: www.lawreports...

Desmond v Bower ? WLR Daily

Posted on July 29, 2009
Desmond v Bower [2009] EWCA Civ 667; [2009] WLR (D) 258 “The reasoning of the judge refusing the defendant in a libel trial permission to call evidence of discreditable behaviour by the claimant subsequent to the alleged libel was a matter of law in which the appellate court was entitled to intervene...

Office of Fair Trading vs Foxtons Ltd ? Times Law Reports

Posted on July 29, 2009
Office of Fair Trading vs Foxtons Ltd Chancery Division “Provisions in an estate agent?s standard terms and conditions of its letting contracts with landlords relating to renewal commission, third party renewal commission and sales commission were unfair...

Ryan v Islington London Borough Council ? Times Law Reports

Posted on July 29, 2009
Ryan v Islington London Borough Council Court of Appeal “A tenant who wished to acquire her local authority flat under the right to buy scheme could not require the local authority to carry out remedial works to the property as a precondition to complying with a notice to complete...

Boyfriend sentenced to life in jail for murder of Amy Leigh Barnes ? The Times

Posted on July 29, 2009
“A football coach was told that he would spend at least 24 years in prison after he was found guilty yesterday of murdering his girlfriend, a model, who named her killer with her dying words.” Full story The Times, 29th July 2009 Source: www...

Recent Statutory Instruments ? OPSI

Posted on July 29, 2009
The Categories of Gaming Machine (Amendment) Regulations 2009 The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 The School Teachers? Incentive Payments (England) Order 2009 The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (London Stansted Airport) (No...

Hacker?s ?moral crusade? over UFO ? BBC News

Posted on July 29, 2009
“A Briton fighting extradition to the US for hacking into top-secret computers claims he was morally justified in breaking the law.” Full story BBC News, 28th July 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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