from the Inner Temple Library
“A psychiatrist is suing her employer for £300,000 compensation because she was ‘humiliated’ and made to stop work after she released a mental patient who fatally stabbed a retired banker the next day.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Anwoir & Ors, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 1354 (27 June 2008)
High Court (Chancey Division)
Astall & Anor v Revenue & Customs [2008] EWHC 1471 (Ch) (27 June 2008)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Buckley & Ors v Yates Wine Lodges Ltd & Anor [2008] EWHC 1408 (QB) (27 June 2008)
Green v Westleigh Properties Limits [2008] EWHC 1474 (QB) (27 June 2008)
High Court (Commercial Court)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
TJ Brent Ltd & Anor v Black & Veatch Consulting Ltd [2008] EWHC 1497 (TCC) (13 June 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Commissioner for Older People in Wales (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The European Parliament (House of Lords Disqualification) Regulations 2008
The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) (No.2) Order 2008
The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Collective Investment Schemes) (Amendment) Order 2008
The Industrial Training Levy (Reasonable Steps) Regulations 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“Animal welfare activists have complained to Wimbledon organisers and the police over the culling of pigeons. Is it against the law for marksmen to take out the feral birds?”
BBC News Magazine, 26th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman who left her two-year-old son alone for the weekend has been jailed for 18 months.”
BBC News, 27th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge today questioned a decision by prosecutors not to pursue a murder charge against a mother who left her three-year-old daughter to die from malnutrition in her bedroom.”
The Guardian, 27th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Midwives and maternity groups are urging the Government to extend a new law to give mothers the legal right to breastfeed babies more than six months old in public.”
The Independent, 28th June 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Police last night criticised prosecutors for failing to charge a crack addict accused of rape who went on to sexually assault and murder a woman a week after being released from custody.”
The Guardian, 28th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The High Court’s Queen’s Bench Division (QBD) is in turmoil after being branded ‘chaotic’ by a raft of judges, some of whom claim not to have had a break in the past 10 months.”
The Lawyer, 28th June 2008
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Policies on gun crime are flawed because ministers overlook its root causes – poverty and inequality, a report by criminologists claims.”
BBC News, 28th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
