“The Sun and The News of the World were forced to pay the actress Sienna Miller damages yesterday for publishing nude photographs taken against her will during the filming of a movie.”
The Independent, 8th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Archive for December 10th, 2007
Miller wins biggest payout for invasion of privacy - The Independent
Published December 10, 2007 news , privacy 0 CommentsJudges hang on to their wigs - The Independent
Published December 10, 2007 court dress , judiciary , news 0 Comments“Plans which would have forced judges in civil courts to ditch their wigs have been postponed.”
The Independent, 8th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Pensioners challenge smoking ban - BBC News
Published December 10, 2007 elderly , news , smoking 2 Comments“Pensioners are launching a legal battle against a smoking ban which stops them lighting up in the communal room of their sheltered housing.”
BBC News, 10th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Employment Bill published by UK Government - OUT-LAW.com
Published December 10, 2007 employment , news 0 Comments“Rogue employers could face unlimited fines and agency workers will enjoy stronger protection under a new Employment Bill published by the Government on Friday. The reforms also abolish the current statutory disciplinary procedures.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th December 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
UK red tape law leaves regulations untouched - Financial Times
Published December 10, 2007 financial regulation , news 0 Comments“A law to cut red tape – hailed by Gordon Brown as a crucial means of reducing the burden on business – has failed to axe or even amend a single regulation in the first year of its existence.”
Financial Times, 9th December 2007
Source: www.ft.com
Rabbit poachers’ old law reprieve - BBC News
Published December 10, 2007 game laws , news 0 Comments“Two men caught taking rabbits and trespassing could have been deported overseas for seven years had an old English poaching law been upheld.”
BBC News, 7th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Podcast 34: Podcast on Human Rights with Carl Gardner, author of the Head of Legal blog - Charon QC
Published December 10, 2007 human rights , podcasts 0 Comments“Today I am talking to Carl Gardner, former government lawyer and now a freelance author, lecturer and author of the Head of Legal Blog.”
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
Related link: Head of Legal
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Vohora and Another - Times Law Reports
Published December 10, 2007 company directors , disqualification , law reports , time limits 0 CommentsSecretary of State for Trade and Industry v Vohora and Another
Chancery
“A claim by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to disqualify a director of a company under section 6 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 had to be brought, rather than commenced within two years.”
The Times, 10th December 2007
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Regina v Foster - Times Law Reports
Published December 10, 2007 juries , law reports , verdicts 0 CommentsRegina v Foster
Regina v Newman
Regina v Kempster
Regina v Birmingham
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“There was no absolute obligation on a trial judge to leave an alternative lesser verdict for the jury to consider whenever the defence to the more serious charge on the indictment involved an admission of a lesser or different offence; sometimes it would be appropriate, but sometimes it would not.”
The Times, 10th December 2007
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Fixation with terrorism ‘exposes Britain to other security risks’ - The Times
Published December 10, 2007 crime , news , terrorism 0 Comments“The national security effort focuses too heavily on terrorism at the expense of fighting organised crime, securing energy supplies and tackling other international threats, a report states today.”
The Times, 10th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Violence interventions systematic review - Ministry of Justice
Published December 10, 2007 reports , violent offenders 0 Comments“A systematic review of the national and international evidence on the effectiveness of interventions with violent offenders. The review was commissioned to provide a comprehensive overview of the available evidence and was not designed to evaluate National Offender Management Service or HM Prison Service programmes.”
Ministry of Justice, 7th December 2007
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Santa putting children’s information at risk, warn experts - OUT-LAW.com
Published December 10, 2007 children , data protection , news 0 Comments“Santa Claus could be breaking privacy laws in his collection and use of data about British children, experts have warned. Yuletide cheer-bringer Claus could be putting the personal data of millions of children at risk.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th December 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
More debate needed on ID cards, think-tank warns - The Independent
Published December 10, 2007 identity cards , news 0 Comments“The Government should launch a ’serious renewed debate’ on ID cards or scrap the scheme, a thinktank report says.”
The Independent, 8th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Prison service ‘failed’ woman who killed herself - The Independent
Published December 10, 2007 news , prisons , suicide 0 Comments“The grim pattern to Louise Giles’s short life was set at the age of 13 when she took her first overdose.”
The Independent, 8th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
And then there was one: four British residents freed from Guantánamo - The Guardian
Published December 10, 2007 detention , news , terrorism 0 Comments“Four British residents held without charge at the American detention camp for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba are to be released, reducing the UK involvement with the camp to just one inmate.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Family justice policy does not work for children, report says - The Guardian
Published December 10, 2007 children , family courts , news 0 Comments“A key element of the government’s family justice policy is failing the children it was intended to help, a two-year study funded by the Ministry of Justice has concluded.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Lawyer defections set to continue, survey says - The Times
Published December 10, 2007 law firms , news 0 Comments“Two-thirds of law firms have poached a team from a rival practice, according to research by Smith & Williamson.”
The Times, 7th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Gallery faces lawsuit over Rubens - The Independent
Published December 10, 2007 artistic works , news , theft 0 Comments“One of Britain’s leading art galleries faces the threat of legal action over three paintings by the 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens from the granddaughter of the works’ former owner who was murdered by the Nazis.”
The Independent, 9th December 2007
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OFT fines supermarkets £116m in dairy probe - The Times
Published December 10, 2007 news , price fixing 0 Comments“Sainsburys and Asda have admitted fixing the price of dairy products with producers in the aftermath of the Foot and Mouth outbreak of 2001 following an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).”
The Times, 7th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Detection system criticised after ‘drug mule’ death - The Guardian
Published December 10, 2007 drug trafficking , news 0 Comments“The effectiveness of equipment and procedures designed to catch “drug mules” has been called into question following the case of a woman who died when bags of smuggled cocaine burst inside her body hours after hi-tech screening failed to pick up that she was carrying drugs.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
42-day detention plan attacked as constitutionally illiterate - The Guardian
Published December 10, 2007 detention , news , terrorism 0 Comments“Proposals to extend the limit for pre-charge detention to 42 days are ‘constitutionally illiterate’ as well as dangerous, critics warned yesterday, because proper parliamentary scrutiny would confuse the roles of MPs and judges.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Sweet and sour emotions as Chinese restaurant couple win £10m legacy - The Times
Published December 10, 2007 mental health , news , wills 0 Comments“The final will of a widow who left £10 million to the owners of a Chinese restaurant was upheld by the High Court yesterday, despite claims by her family that she did not know what she was doing.”
The Times, 8th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Teenager jailed for rape receives second life sentence for murder - The Guardian
Published December 10, 2007 murder , news , rape , sentencing , young offenders 0 Comments“A teenager who was jailed for the rape of a schoolgirl two weeks ago was given a second life sentence yesterday for killing a father of two in a flash of temper.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Guantanamo Britons could now face control orders - The Observer
Published December 10, 2007 control orders , news , terrorism 0 Comments“Civil liberties groups were outraged yesterday at suggestions that three British residents soon to be released from Guantanamo Bay will be subjected to control orders.”
The Observer, 9th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Kieren Fallon is cleared of cheating as race-fixing trial collapses - The Times
Published December 10, 2007 fraud , gambling , horse racing , news 0 Comments“The reputation of the police force that claims to be the country’s elite antifraud unit was in tatters last night after the collapse of its cheating case against one of horse racing’s greatest talents.”
The Times, 8th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Security agenda is out of date, thinktank says - The Guardian
Published December 10, 2007 crime , immigration , terrorism 0 Comments“Whitehall’s notions of what constitutes national security are out of date, incoherent and need a radical shake-up, a report by the thinktank Demos will say today.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Tesco prepares to fight charges of collusion in price-fixing scandal - The Times
Published December 10, 2007 news , price fixing 0 Comments“Tesco is preparing a legal battle to clear its name of involvement in the dairy price-fixing scandal that has cost consumers £270 million.”
The Times, 8th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
‘Fake penis’ sex attacker jailed - BBC News
Published December 10, 2007 news , sentencing , sexual offences 0 Comments“A sex attacker who hid a carrot in his trousers and pretended it was his erect penis has been jailed for 18 months.”
BBC News, 7th December 2007
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Guilty verdict for lorry driver - BBC News
Published December 10, 2007 news , road traffic offences , sentencing 0 Comments“A lorry driver has been found guilty of causing the deaths of a family of four when he fell asleep at the wheel.”
BBC News, 7th December 2007
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No legal aid for Hercules inquest - BBC News
Published December 10, 2007 armed forces , inquests , legal aid , news 0 Comments“Families of nine UK personnel killed in a plane shot down in Iraq will get no legal aid at an inquest but those of an Australian airman will, it has emerged.”
BBC News, 9th December 2007
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Thinktank calls for use of asbos to be reviewed - The Guardian
Published December 10, 2007 ASBOs , news 0 Comments“Britain is in danger of becoming a nation of ‘paedophobics’, fearful of children and young people, according to a thinktank which warns that antisocial behaviour orders may actually encourage youth crime.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAE chiefs face renewed corruption inquiry - The Times
Published December 10, 2007 airlines , corruption , fraud , news 0 Comments“The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is to relaunch a criminal investigation of alleged corruption at Britain’s biggest arms company, BAE Systems.”
The Times, 9th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
