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Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on May 06, 2009
The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officer?s Charges) (Northern Ireland) Order 2009 The First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal (Chambers) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2009 The Company and Business Names (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2009 The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) Fees Order 2009 The Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 The European Parliamentary Election Petition (Amendment) Rules 2009 The Local Health Boards (Establishment [...

Feasibility study to consider the possible merger of the Inner and Middle Temple Libraries

Posted on May 05, 2009
The Executive Committees of Inner Temple and Middle Temple have agreed to commission a feasibility study to investigate the potential benefits of merging their Libraries and creating a Joint Education and Advocacy Centre. The study will be overseen by a working group chaired jointly by Master Jonathan Hirst for Inner Temple and Master Stanley Burnton, Deputy [...

R v Briggs-Price - WLR Daily

Posted on May 05, 2009
R v Briggs-Price [2009] UKHL 19; [2009] WLR (D) 142 “A confiscation order could be made under the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 in respect of benefit derived from drug trafficking other than that of which the defendant had been convicted which had been established by evidence during the trial...

House of Lords Judgments: What?s New?

Posted on May 05, 2009
R v Briggs-Price (Appellant) (on appeal from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)) [2009] UKHL 19 (29 April 2009) R v JTB (Appellant) (on appeal from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)) [2009] UKHL 20 (29 April 2009) Gomes (Appellant) v Government of Trinidad and Tobago (Respondents) (Criminal Appeal from Her Majesty?s High Court of Justice); Goodyer [...

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Lawyers to fight bail conditions that ?stifle? climate protests - The Guardian

Posted on May 05, 2009
“Lawyers representing climate change protesters who were arrested in parliament last week are to mount a legal challenge against bail conditions that were imposed, they say, to ’stifle’ future protest by their clients.” Full story The Guardian, 3rd May 2009 Source: www...

Y (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Z (Sri Lanka) v Same - Times Law Reports

Posted on May 05, 2009
Y (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Z (Sri Lanka) v Same Court of Appeal “It would be a breach of article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, prohibiting torture, to order the return of an asylum seeker to a country where there was an undisturbed finding that the asylum seeker [...

Gomes v Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Goodyer v Same - Times Law Reports

Posted on May 05, 2009
Gomes v Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Goodyer v Same House of Lords “An accused who deliberately fled from a jurisdiction where his trial was pending was not generally entitled to rely on the passage of time due to the delay of the extraditing state in bringing him to justice as a bar to his extradition...

Jacqui Smith says DNA database profiles of 800,000 innocent people will be axed - The Guardian

Posted on May 05, 2009
“The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, will publish plans this week for the destruction of the DNA profiles of nearly a million innocent people from the police national database. The government’s response follows a ruling by the European court of human rights last year that the practice of retaining the DNA profiles was illegal...

Criminals to face easier deportation - The Times

Posted on May 05, 2009
“Human rights legislation that prevents ministers from deporting foreign criminals is to be overhauled under new government plans.” Full story The Times, 3rd May 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

DNA search for miscarriages of justice - The Guardian

Posted on May 05, 2009
“The head of the organisation that investigates alleged miscarriages of justice has ordered an urgent review of cases where DNA evidence is involved to find whether there are long-term prisoners whose innocence could now be scientifically proved...

Review begins into cross-examination of rape victim, four - The Times

Posted on May 05, 2009
“An independent review is underway into how Haringey Social Services dealt with the case of a two-year-old girl raped by a man convicted over Baby P?s death.” Full story The Times, 2nd May 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

?Baby P? stepfather may challenge rape verdict - The Independent

Posted on May 05, 2009
“Lawyers representing Baby P’s ’stepfather’ confirmed today they are considering an appeal against his conviction for raping a two-year-old girl.” Full story The Independent, 5th May 2009 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Rules on Gurkhas ?need rethink? - BBC News

Posted on May 05, 2009
“The government must come up with a revised policy on Gurkha immigration rights, a senior Labour MP has warned.” Full story BBC News, 3rd May 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Extremists banned from Britain named and shamed by Home Office - Daily Telegraph

Posted on May 05, 2009
“Extremists and preachers of hate who have been banned from Britain are named and shamed by the Government for the first time today.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 5th May 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Do not widen out-of-court penalties, magistrates tell Jack Straw - The Times

Posted on May 05, 2009
“Magistrates want ministers to halt the widening of on-the-spot fines for offenders, warning that serious crimes are not reaching the courts. They have told Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, that the use of the fines in cases involving assault is undermining confidence in the justice system...

Fair tipping law ?won?t cost waiters their jobs? - The Independent

Posted on May 05, 2009
“The restaurant trade’s warning that 45,000 jobs could be lost when ministers outlaw the use of tips to top up the earnings of staff paid less than the minimum wage has been rejected by an official government study.” Full story The Independent, 5th May 2009 Source: www...

Judge condemns police for cautioning convicted sex offender - Daily Telegraph

Posted on May 05, 2009
“A judge has condemned police for only cautioning a convicted sex offender who breached a court order before going on to abuse more children.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 5th May 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on May 05, 2009
The Animal By-Products (Amendment) Regulations 2009 The Stamp Duty and Stamp Duty Reserve Tax (Investment Exchanges and Clearing Houses) Regulations (No. 4) 2009 The Armed Forces (Evidence in Proceedings before Civilian Courts) Regulations 2009 The Reserve Forces (Evidence in Proceedings before Civil Courts) Regulations 2009 The Armed Forces (Warrants of Arrest for Service Offences) Rules 2009 The Armed Forces (Forfeitures [...

Amy Winehouse wins court ban on paparazzi at her home - The Guardian

Posted on May 02, 2009
“Singer Amy Winehouse has fought back against paparazzi photographers keen to record every aspect of her troubled private life, winning a high court anti-harassment injunction and posting the ruling outside her new home in the London suburbs.” Full story The Guardian, 1st May 2009 Source: www...

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted on May 01, 2009
Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Y (Sri Lanka) & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 362 (29 April 2009) R (A Child), Re [2009] EWCA Civ 358 (29 April 2009) Sharab v Al-Saud [2009] EWCA Civ 353 (30 April 2009) JS (Sri Lanka), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for [...

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on May 01, 2009
The Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Commencement No.2) (Northern Ireland) Order 2009 The Armed Forces (Discharge and Transfer to the Reserve Forces) Regulations 2009 The Charitable Institutions (Fund-Raising) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 Source: www...

R (M) v East Sussex County Council - WLR Daily

Posted on May 01, 2009
R (M) v East Sussex County Council; [2009] WLR(D) 141 “The failure by a local education authority to amend a child?s statement of special educational needs during the year of the child?s transfer between phases of schooling, and to name and specify the type of school, was a breach of its obligations under s 324 of [...

Apostolides v Orams and Another - Times Law Reports

Posted on May 01, 2009
Apostolides v Orams and Another Court of Justice of the European Communities “The fact that a judgment given in a member state of the European Community concerned land in a part of that state over which the state did not exercise effective control did not mean that the judgment was not subject to recognition and enforcement in [...

Government responds to Bradley report on mental health in the Criminal Justice System - Ministry of Justice

Posted on May 01, 2009
“The government has today published its response to Lord Bradley’s report on people with mental health problems and learning difficulties in the Criminal Justice System.” Full press release Ministry of Justice, 30th April 2009 Source: www...

Law Society complains over judge?s remarks on solicitor-advocates - Law Society?s Gazette

Posted on May 01, 2009
“The Law Society has made an official complaint over what it says were ?inappropriate comments? by a Crown court judge about the alleged incompetence of three solicitor-advocates.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 30th April 2009 Source: www...

Minister questions legal aid priorities at 60th anniversary debate - Law Society?s Gazette

Posted on May 01, 2009
“Legal aid has ?failed the very people it was set up to protect? the minister in charge, told a debate hosted by the Law Society this week to mark the 60th anniversary of the Legal Aid Act.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 30th April 2009 Source: www...

Legal aid payments - Ministry of Justice

Posted on May 01, 2009
“The annual list of the highest paid solicitors firms and barristers from legal aid in 2007/08 has been published on the Ministry of Justice website.” Full press release Ministry of Justice, 30th April 2009 Source: www.justice.gov.uk

New measures to give communities more say in justice - Ministry of Justice

Posted on May 01, 2009
“A range of new measures that gives communities more say in the way justice is delivered in their neighbourhoods as well as making local criminal justice agencies more accountable to the people they represent has today been announced by ministers...

Government statement following Commons vote on Ghurkhas - UK Border Agency

Posted on May 01, 2009
“Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas made the following statement to the House of Commons.” Full press release UK Border Agency, 30th April 2009 Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk

Yarl?s Wood report - UK Border Agency response - UK Border Agency

Posted on May 01, 2009
“The UK Border Agency has responded to a report on the Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre by Sir Al Aynsley-Green, the children’s commissioner for England, which was published today.” Full press release UK Border Agency, 28th April 2009 Source: www...

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