Current Awareness

“A pub landlord who allowed smokers to light up on his premises has been fined in court for flouting the smoking ban in public places.”

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Daily Telegraph, 5th November 2007

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

“The Land Registry is to remove online versions of scanned mortgage deeds and leases amid concerns that fraudsters have been accessing the documents.”

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BBC News, 5th November 2007

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

“Channel 4 has been cleared of breaching broadcasting regulations over its decision to transmit an incident in which a Big Brother contestant used a racially offensive word to describe another housemate.”

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The Guardian, 5th November 2007

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

“The convention that former judges cannot return to practice as barristers or solicitors will remain, following a government consultation.”

Press release

Ministry of Justice, 5th November 2007

Source: www.justice.gov.uk

Westminster City Council v Boraliu

“The tenancy of a dwelling house granted by the local authority to a homeless person in priority need did not confer a secure tenancy on the tenant even though the local authority had originally taken over a lease of the dwelling house from a private housing association for the purpose of letting it to persons in priority need of housing accommodation.”

WLR Daily, 5th November 2007

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

Please note: once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.

Home Secretary’s control orders made unlawfully

Secretary of State for the Home Department v JJ and Others

House of Lords

“Non-derogating control orders made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which imposed on the controlled persons an 18-hour curfew and closely restricted their social contacts, amounted to a deprivation of liberty, contrary to article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and were accordingly unlawful.”

The Times, 5th November 2007

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication

“The National Trust has said it would fight the government to protect the countryside from housing development.”

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BBC News, 3rd November 2007

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

“The family of a man shot dead by police have urged the government to change the law so his inquest can proceed.”

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BBC News, 5th November 2007

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

“The BSB has launched a root and branch review of the Bar Vocational Course (BVC).”

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Bar Standards Board, 2nd November 2007

Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

“Suspects accused of trivial ‘crimes’ such as picking wild flowers or defacing coins can have their DNA stored for life on a national database, police guidelines reveal.”

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Daily Telegraph, 5th November 2007

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

“The Home Secretary has instructed an independent review to consider whether allowing wire-tap evidence in court would jeopardise secret eavesdropping methods.”

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The Times, 5th November 2007

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

“Thousands of criminals could have their jail terms cut after one of Britain’s most senior judges said that courts were justified in giving lower sentences where prisoners faced overcrowded jails.”

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The Times, 5th November 2007

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

“Members of the Armed Forces are facing a steep rise in personal injury insurance premiums because of the significant increase in combat casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

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The Times, 5th November 2007

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

“A woman who recently won a divorce award of £48 million should have been entitled to as much as £65 million, according to a leading family QC.”

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The Times, 5th November 2007

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

“Britain’s MPs are being urged by one of the world’s leading civil-rights lawyers to resist pressure to extend the 28-day time limit for holding terror suspects.”

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The Times, 5th November 2007

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

“Barry George, the man convicted of shooting the television presenter Jill Dando in the head at close range eight years ago will begin his latest attempt to overturn his conviction today.”

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The Times, 5th November 2007

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

“Gordon Brown has demanded a review of the technology behind the proposed new ID cards, the Guardian has learned.”

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The Guardian, 5th November 2007

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

“The police chief who ran the operation that led to Jean Charles de Menezes being shot dead will be criticised by an official report which is to be released on Thursday.”

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The Guardian, 5th November 2007

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

“Sex attacks in childhood highlight legal loophole.”

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The Guardian, 5th November 2007

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

“A Home Office minister who has regularly campaigned on road safety was fined and had his licence endorsed yesterday after being convicted of driving while talking on his mobile telephone.”

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The Times, 3rd November 2007

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

“A soldier whose army career was cut short by serious injury in Iraq was put in fear of becoming homeless when he was given less than 30 days to leave the army house where he lives with his wife and three children.”

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The Times, 3rd November 2007

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

“A judge told an elite female tennis coach that she had acted in the interests of her ‘own selfish, sexual ends’ as he jailed her today for two years and nine months for conducting a year-long affair with a 13-year-old pupil.”

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The Times, 3rd November 2007

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

“ITV is examining fresh allegations of phone-in irregularities on The X Factor, a fortnight after the broadcaster was forced to own up to deceiving viewers out of £8 million on other programmes.”

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The Times, 3rd November 2007

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

“In a groundbreaking move, the Pentagon is compensating servicemen seriously hurt when an American tank convoy forced them off the road.”

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The Observer, 4th November 2007

Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk