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Q&A: terror control orders ? The Times

Posted on June 11, 2009
“What are control orders? They allow the Home Secretary to impose restrictions on a person suspected of involvement in terrorist related activity.” Full story The Times, 10th June 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Brown gets tough in Parliament clean-up ? The Independent

Posted on June 11, 2009
“Legislation is to be rushed through Parliament to end Westminster’s system of self-regulation and impose a new code of conduct on MPs in the wake of the expenses scandal, Gordon Brown announced today.” Full story The Independent, 10th June 2009 Source: www...

Student murder sentences examined ? BBC News

Posted on June 11, 2009
“The Attorney General will consider whether the sentences given to two men who tortured and murdered two French students were ‘unduly lenient’.” Full story BBC News, 11th June 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Speeding biker who filmed death crash banned ? The Independent

Posted on June 11, 2009
“A speeding motorcyclist who unwittingly filmed a fellow biker’s death crash with a camera strapped to his petrol tank, walked free from court today with a ban.” Full story The Independent, 11th June 2009 Source: www.independent.co.uk

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Priest barred over intimate text messages ? The Independent

Posted on June 11, 2009
“A priest has been barred from holding a licence after he admitted sending ’sexual and intimate’�text messages to a teenage parishioner.” Full story The Independent, 11th June 2009 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Analysis: Soham loopholes still not closed ? The Times

Posted on June 11, 2009
“The investigation into alleged child abuse at the Little Ted nursery is likely to consider whether the worker who was charged yesterday was subjected to the correct vetting process. Loopholes in vetting came to light after the Soham murders of 2002...

G20 police officer under investigation for alleged second assault ? The Guardian

Posted on June 11, 2009
“A Metropolitan police sergeant who was filmed slapping a female protester at the G20 protests is under investigation for allegedly assaulting a second woman, the Guardian can reveal.” Full story The Guardian, 11th June 2009 Source: www.guardian...

Man jailed over schoolgirl kidnap ? BBC News

Posted on June 11, 2009
“A lorry driver who abducted a 15-year-old girl he met in an internet chatroom and took her to France has been jailed for five years.” Full story BBC News, 11th June 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Army interpreter loses spy appeal ? BBC News

Posted on June 11, 2009
“An Army corporal who was the personal interpreter to Britain’s top general in Afghanistan has lost an appeal against his 10-year sentence for spying.” Full story BBC News, 11th June 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Criminal responsibility ? BBC News

Posted on June 10, 2009
“In England and Wales the age of criminal responsiblity is 10 – but should it be raised?” Full story BBC News, 10th June 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Defrocked priest squatting in vicarage given reprieve ? The Guardian

Posted on June 10, 2009
“A judge has denied the Church of England the power to evict a defrocked cleric who is squatting in a vicarage.” Full story The Guardian, 10th June 2009 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Law Lords devastate terror control orders in secret evidence ruling ? The Times

Posted on June 10, 2009
“The Law Lords today blew a hole in the Government?s controversial control orders for terrorist suspects in a ruling against the use of secret evidence.” Full story The Times, 10th June 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Mediation ? an integral part of our litigation culture ? Speech by Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony

Posted on June 10, 2009
Mediation – an integral part of our litigation culture (PDF) Speech by Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Master of the Rolls Littleton Chambers Annual Mediation Evening, 8th June 2009 Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk

AB and Others v Ministry of Defence ? Times Law Reports

Posted on June 10, 2009
AB and Others v Ministry of Defence Queen’s Bench Division “Claims for compensation by former servicemen in relation to exposure to ionising radiation as a result of nuclear tests carried out in the 1950s were not to be struck out either as time-barred or as having no reasonable prospect of success...

Met officers accused of ?torture? ? BBC News

Posted on June 10, 2009
“Six Metropolitan Police officers have been suspended or placed on restricted duties following allegations of ill-treatment after a police raid.” Full story BBC News, 10th June 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Gary McKinnon, hacker with Asperger syndrome, fights extradition to US ? The Times

Posted on June 10, 2009
“A British ‘UFO eccentric’ accused of hacking into US military networks brought a last challenge in the High Court yesterday against extradition to America on health grounds.” Full story The Times, 10th June 2009 Source: www.timesonline...

Rape victims face postcode lottery for justice ? Daily Telegraph

Posted on June 10, 2009
“Rape victims face a postcode lottery in bringing their attackers to justice with victims in one area standing just a one in sixty chance.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 10th June 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Court of Appeal clarifies procurement rules and ends local authorities? insurance venture ? OUT-LAW.com

Posted on June 10, 2009
“Local authorities have been barred from joining together to form an insurance company. The Court of Appeal has blocked London authorities from forming the mutual firm, ruling that councils acted beyond their powers and broke procurement rules.” Full story OUT-LAW...

Secret evidence: undermining the great traditions of British justice ? The Times

Posted on June 10, 2009
“Tomorrow the law lords will hand down their decision on the legality of the control orders regime under which terrorist suspects are detained.” Full story The Times, 9th June 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

New MP voting system considered ? BBC News

Posted on June 10, 2009
“Gordon Brown is set to announce plans to examine a new system of voting MPs to the House of Commons.” Full story BBC News, 10th June 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Gang of six guilty of Shaquille Smith murder ? The Independent

Posted on June 10, 2009
“A gang of six youths were found guilty at the Old Bailey today of murdering an innocent 14-year-old schoolboy stabbed in a park.” Full story The Independent, 9th June 2009 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Proposed reforms help most in need and deliver significant savings ? Ministry of Justice

Posted on June 09, 2009
“Plans to divert more legal aid funds to those most in need while delivering better value for taxpayers? money are on track following the publication of the government?s response to a consultation on Crown Court means testing and Central Funds reforms...

AB and others v Ministry of Defence ? WLR Daily

Posted on June 09, 2009
AB and others v Ministry of Defence [2009] EWHC 1225 (QB); [2009] WLR (D) 174 “In relation to a group action the issue as to when a claimant had ?knowledge? for the purposes of ss 12 and 14 of the Limitation Act 1980 was primarily one of fact The state of the claimant?s belief was to [...

Defendants must help pay own legal fees, government announces ? The Guardian

Posted on June 09, 2009
“Defendants in some serious criminal �trials including cases of murder, manslaughter and rape will have to contribute to their own legal fees under plans announced by the �government today.” Full story The Guardian, 8th June 2009 Source: www...

Cherie Booth turns mediator to cut legal costs for companies ? The Times

Posted on June 09, 2009
“Cherie Booth, QC, and Lord Woolf, the former Lord Chief Justice, will spearhead a new scheme today aimed at saving big companies millions of pounds in legal costs by settling disputes out of court.” Full story The Times, 9th June 2009 Source: www...

Man jailed over erectile dysfunction drugs ? The Independent

Posted on June 09, 2009
“A former bankrupt businessman who funded a luxury lifestyle by selling millions of pounds worth of unlicensed Viagra-like drugs over the internet was jailed for two years yesterday.” Full story The Independent, 9th June 2009 Source: www.independent...

Fertility doctor Mohamed Taranissi awarded libel settlement with BBC ? The Times

Posted on June 09, 2009
“The BBC faces a multimillion-pound legal bill after settling a libel battle with one of Britain?s most successful fertility doctors.” Full story The Times, 9th June 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Judge accused of using racial slur against gypsies ? Daily Telegraph

Posted on June 09, 2009
“A judge has been accused of using a ‘racial slur’ against gypsies while sentencing a conman, who he said had ‘gypped’ a student out of money.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 9th June 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

DNA policy ?stigmatises children? ? BBC News

Posted on June 09, 2009
“DNA samples are being taken from children in a London borough at the rate of nearly one a day, figures show.” Full story BBC News, 8th June 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Justice at last for the 29 victims of Omagh bombing ? The Independent

Posted on June 09, 2009
“A landmark legal victory for relatives of victims of the Omagh bombing could open the way for those bereaved in London’s 7/7 attacks to sue the perpetrators for damages, it was claimed yesterday.” Full story The Independent, 9th June 2009 Source: www...

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