“The parents of a baby who died after medics failed to diagnose meningitis have been awarded compensation.”
BBC News, 22nd May 2008
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Archive for May 22nd, 2008
Pay-out after baby misdiagnosed – BBC News
Published May 22, 2008 compensation , negligence , news , paramedics Leave a CommentMother is jailed over false alibi – BBC News
Published May 22, 2008 news , perverting the course of justice , sentencing Leave a Comment“A mother who lied to protect her son who, along with three other teenagers, kicked a man to death in Bedfordshire has been jailed for 21 months.”
BBC News, 22nd May 2008
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Life for man who shot 22-year-old – BBC News
Published May 22, 2008 murder , news , sentencing Leave a Comment“A man has been jailed for life for shooting dead a 22-year-old in north-west London.”
BBC News, 22nd May 2008
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Teenager guilty of ’shoot-out’ murder – The Independent
Published May 22, 2008 murder , news , young offenders Leave a Comment“A 17-year-old youth was facing a life sentence today after being found guilty of murdering a nursing assistant in a ‘Wild West’ shoot-out.”
The Independent, 22nd May 2008
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Restaurants and supermarkets to display their hygiene ratings – The Guardian
Published May 22, 2008 food hygiene , local government , news Leave a Comment“Restaurants, cafes, supermarkets and other food outlets will be graded on their hygiene inspection results and expected to display them on their doors or windows under a scheme to be launched next year.”
The Guardian, 22nd May 2008
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Youths to appeal against Garry Newlove murder sentences – The Guardian
Published May 22, 2008 appeals , murder , news , young offenders Leave a Comment“Two youths convicted of the murder of Garry Newlove have been granted leave to appeal, the Crown Prosecution Service said today.”
The Guardian, 22nd May 2008
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Censors go online to clean up murky world of digital videos – The Times
Published May 22, 2008 internet , news Leave a Comment“The hitherto lawless world of online entertainment has began to adopt the same ratings system that governs British cinemas.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
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Man sues for £1m after botched vasectomy leads to loss of testicles – The Times
Published May 22, 2008 damages , hospitals , news , personal injuries Leave a Comment“A father-of-four is claiming £1 million damages after winning his legal case over a vasectomy that went wrong.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
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Analysis: mistakes at the CPS have gone beyond a joke – The Times
Published May 22, 2008 Crown Prosecution Service , special report Leave a Comment“When a hospital doctor picks up a patient’s file, he needs to see the patient’s medical history; what treatment is being given and what drugs have been prescribed. If the file is incomplete and can’t be relied on, the system would collapse. The same is true with court files. But in a damning report published today, the Inspectorate of the Crown Prosecution Service found that most files – both in the magistrates’ courts and in the crown court – are incomplete.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
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Police get new powers to wage war on gangs – The Times
Published May 22, 2008 anonymity , gangs , news , witnesses Leave a Comment“Witnesses who give evidence against gang members will be guaranteed their anonymity as soon as they come forward so they can be free from fear of reprisals, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
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Gichura v Home Office and another – WLR Daily
Published May 22, 2008 disability discrimination , law reports , prisons Leave a CommentGichura v Home Office and another; [2008] WLR (D) 164
“Once a disabled detainee had gone through the administrative stage on arrival at a detention centre the services subsequently provided came within the scope of s 19(2) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
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Kilby v Gawith; [2008] WLR (D) 163
“The court had no discretion under CPR r 45.11(1) to disallow a successful claimant a success fee provided for in the conditional fee agreement with her solicitors.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
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R (G) v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; R (N) v Secretary of State for Health; R (B) v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust – WLR Daily
Published May 22, 2008 hospitals , law reports , smoking Leave a Comment“A provision which had the effect of prohibiting smoking in a high security psychiatric hospital was not incompatible with the human rights of detained mental patients and was not unlawful.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
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In re Rottmann (a bankrupt) – WLR Daily
Published May 22, 2008 bankruptcy , disclosure , law reports Leave a CommentIn re Rottmann (a bankrupt) ; [2008] WLR (D) 161
“The court had power to suspend the public examination of a bankrupt pursuant to s 290 of the Insolvency Act 1986 and order the examination to be conducted in private where foreign criminal proceedings had been instituted against the bankrupt.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
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SB v A County Council [2008] EWCA Civ 535; [2008] WLR (D) 160
“A judge considering dispensing with parental consent to adoption had to focus on the child’s welfare ‘throughout his life’, to emphasise that adoption, unlike other forms of order, was something with lifelong implications.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
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BE (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
Published May 22, 2008 armed forces , asylum , human rights , law reports Leave a CommentBE (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 540; [2008] WLR (D) 159
“An Iranian soldier who had been ordered in peacetime to plant land mines liable to kill or maim innocent civilians, and who had deserted, was entitled to international protection as a refugee since the order constituted a requirement that he commit a grave violation of human rights which could further be characterised as ‘gross’ and ‘an atrocity’.
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
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Adorian v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis – WLR Daily
Published May 22, 2008 law reports , personal injuries , police , time limits , trespass to the person Leave a CommentAdorian v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2008] EWHC 1081 (QB); [2008] WLR (D) 158
“Civil proceedings for trespass to the person commenced by a claimant who has been convicted in the United Kingdom of an imprisonable offence, committed on the same occasion as the alleged trespass, are not rendered a nullity by the claimant’s failure to seek the prior permission of the court as required by s 329(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
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Corporate Officer of the House of Commons v Information Commissioner and Others – Times Law Reports
Published May 22, 2008 disclosure , expenses , freedom of information , law reports , parliament Leave a CommentCorporate Officer of the House of Commons v Information Commissioner and Others
Queen’s Bench Division
“Shortcomings in transparency and accountability in the system of paying additional costs allowances to Members of Parliament justified full disclosure of detailed information concerning those payments of their residential expenses.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
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Regina v B – Times Law Reports
Published May 22, 2008 appeals , criminal procedure , law reports Leave a CommentCourt of Appeal
“The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, would not give the Crown leave to appeal unless it was seriously arguable, not that a judge in exercising his discretion or making his judgment in the course of a criminal trial might have decided differently, but that it was unreasonable for him to have done it in the way he had.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
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Written ministerial statement: CPS report – DNA profiles disk inquiry – Attorney General’s Office
Published May 22, 2008 DNA , press releases Leave a Comment“Written ministerial statement: CPS report – DNA profiles disk inquiry.”
Attorney General’s Office, 21st May 2008
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CPS: DNA profiles disk inquiry – Attorney General’s Office
Published May 22, 2008 DNA , reports Leave a Comment“CPS: DNA profiles disk inquiry”
Attorney General’s Office, 21st May 2008
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‘Dog patient’ dentist is jailed – BBC News
Published May 22, 2008 dentists , fraud , news , sentencing Leave a Comment“A dentist and his wife who stole more than £30,000 from the NHS by claiming money for treatment never given to patients have been jailed.”
BBC News, 20th may 2008
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Carer jailed over baby’s killing – BBC News
Published May 22, 2008 child abuse , homicide , news , sentencing Leave a Comment“A carer from Greater Manchester who killed a 16-month-old baby by holding him upside down and flinging him against furniture has been jailed.”
BBC News, 21st May 2008
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Builder is jailed for gas death – BBC News
Published May 22, 2008 health & safety , negligence , news , sentencing Leave a Comment“A builder whose work caused the death of a man through carbon monoxide poisoning has been jailed for three and a half years.”
BBC News, 21st May 2008
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Luxury stolen car dealer jailed – BBC News
Published May 22, 2008 news , sentencing , theft Leave a Comment“A car-ringer who is believed to have pocketed more than £1m by shipping luxury vehicles stolen from Britain has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.”
BBC News, 22nd May 2008
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Police arrest 198 over hate crime – BBC News
Published May 22, 2008 crime , news , police , violence Leave a Comment“Police have arrested 198 people on suspicion of domestic, homophobic and race hate crimes after raids across London, Scotland Yard have said.”
BBC News, 22nd May 2008
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Tories face inquiry after voter data leaked – The Independent
Published May 22, 2008 data protection , elections , news Leave a Comment“The Conservatives’ campaign in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election suffered an embarrassing last-minute setback when the party published the personal details of more than 8,000 voters.”
The Independent, 22nd May 2008
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Mother fined £300 for putting bins out early – Daily Telegraph
Published May 22, 2008 fines , news , waste Leave a Comment“A woman has been fined nearly £300 for leaving her bins out a day before they were due to be collected.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd May 2008
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Knife crime is epidemic, top judge claims – Daily Telegraph
Published May 22, 2008 news , offensive weapons Leave a Comment“Knife crime has escalated to ‘epidemic proportions’ and has to be ‘confronted and stopped’, said Sir Igor Judge, the President of the High Court Queen’s Bench Division.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd May 2008
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CPS made serious errors over data on Dutch criminal suspects – The Guardian
Published May 22, 2008 DNA , news Leave a Comment“An inquiry into how a disk containing DNA profiles of 2,159 people linked to serious crime abroad went unchecked for a year has found ’significant shortcomings’ by the crown prosecution service.”
The Guardian, 22nd May 2008
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Peer cleared of misconduct – The Guardian
Published May 22, 2008 disciplinary procedures , news , parliament Leave a Comment“A Labour peer was cleared of misconduct yesterday after a House of Lords disciplinary committee failed to establish whether he broke parliamentary rules by taking money for a ministerial introduction.”
The Guardian, 22nd May 2008
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Charities face crackdown on fundraising through ‘guilt’ gifts – The Guardian
Published May 22, 2008 charities , news Leave a Comment“Charity watchdogs are to crack down on fundraisers who send out unsolicited gifts to make potential donors feel guilty enough to give money.”
The Guardian, 22nd May 2008
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Council accused of foul play to catch guilty dog owners – The Guardian
Published May 22, 2008 closed circuit television , dogs , investigatory powers , news Leave a Comment“Another council has been caught using surveillance laws designed to combat organised criminals – this time to catch dog owners whose pets foul the grass.”
The Guardian, 22nd May 2008
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Cases to decide if police are liable for damages – The Times
Published May 22, 2008 intimidation , negligence , news , police Leave a Comment“A test case being heard in the House of Lords this week will decide when the police should pay damages if they fail to protect a witness or others who are subsequently killed or harmed.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
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Reformed jihadist released as court case begins – The Times
Published May 22, 2008 detention , news , terrorism Leave a Comment“A former jihadist recruiter who now seeks to deradicalise young Muslims was released without charge yesterday after being held for 12 days under the Terrorism Act.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
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Police say loss of banning orders is to blame for rise in gun crime – The Times
Published May 22, 2008 firearms , news Leave a Comment“Gang-related gun violence has risen sharply in Birmingham since a judge halted the radical use of court orders banning suspected criminals from parts of the city, the police and community leaders say.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
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Algerian demands ‘long-awaited’ apology from Jack Straw over arrest – The Times
Published May 22, 2008 compensation , detention , false imprisonment , news , terrorism Leave a Comment“The Ministry of Justice has been refused permission to appeal against a ruling that it should compensate an Algerian man wrongly jailed for five months on suspicion of training one of the September 11 hijackers.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
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Couple are charged with neglect after child, 7, dies – The Times
Published May 22, 2008 child neglect , news Leave a Comment“A man and a woman have been charged with neglect after the death of a seven-year-old girl.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
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Damning report concludes Crown Prosecution files are in disarray – The Times
Published May 22, 2008 Crown Prosecution Service , news Leave a Comment“The shoddy state of most Crown Prosecution Service case files is highlighted in a report today which finds most are incomplete and missing data such as whether a defendant is on bail, or the outcome of a hearing.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
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