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FSA insider dealing crackdown faces second challenge - The Times

Posted on September 12, 2008
“The Financial Services Authority?s (FSA) long-awaited crackdown on insider dealing hit another procedural hiccup yesterday when the case against Malcolm Calvert, a former partner at Cazenove, the Queen?s stockbroker, was put on hold.” Full sotry The Times, 11th September 2008 Source: www...

Company name display rules will change in October - OUT-LAW.com

Posted on September 12, 2008
“The law on companies’ display of names at their premises will change in three weeks’ time. From 1st October companies will have to display their registered name anywhere they do business, but will no longer have to put it on the outside of buildings...

Employers of non-European workers face radical change to rules - OUT-LAW.com

Posted on September 12, 2008
“Employers have less than a month to change completely the way they deal with workers from outside Europe in what one expert has called the biggest shake-up in 40 years in the way that migrant workers are employed.” Full story OUT-LAW.com, 11th September 2008 Source: www...

Recent Stautory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on September 12, 2008
The Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 (Commencement No 1) Order 2008 Source: www.opsi.gov.uk

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Her Majesty?s Courts Service court user survey - Ministry of Justice

Posted on September 12, 2008
“The bulletin presents the findings of the second year (2007/08) results from Her Majesty’s Courts Service (HMCS) court user survey.” Full survey Ministry of Justice, 11th September 2008 Source: www.justice.gov.uk

Ministry of Justice proposals risk harm to the most vulnerable in society say family law barristers - The Bar Council

Posted on September 12, 2008
“The Family Law Bar Association yesterday submitted a response to the Ministry of Justice consultation entitled Reforming the Legal Aid Family Barrister Fee Scheme concerning legal fees in family law cases.” Full press release The Bar Council, 11th September 2008 Source: www...

?Accidental? stabbing man guilty - BBC News

Posted on September 12, 2008
“A man who claimed his girlfriend fatally stabbed herself in the back with a kitchen knife has been jailed for life.” Full story BBC News, 11th September, 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

?Voodoo-cursed? woman is jailed - BBC News

Posted on September 12, 2008
“A woman who produced human fingers in court in a bid to explain her involvement in a £925,000 tax credit fraud has been jailed for five years.” Full story BBC News, 11th September 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Paedophilia blamed on teacher?s medication - The Independent

Posted on September 12, 2008
“A former headmaster who amassed thousands of indecent images of children on his computer walked free from court yesterday, after a judge ruled that the drug he had been taking to treat his Parkinson’s disease was responsible for his crime...

Model who bought Porsche while claiming benefit is jailed - Daily Telegraph

Posted on September 12, 2008
“Sadie Collis, 27, and husband Derek Collis, 31, of Broadwater Road, Worthing, West Sussex, were told only custodial sentences were appropriate after they pleaded guilty to joint charges of benefit fraud at Worthing Magistrates’ Court.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 12th September 2008 Source: www...

Gurkha veterans? toughest battle - for the right to live in Britain - The Times

Posted on September 12, 2008
“The old soldiers whose test case at the high court could open the door for up to 10,000 comrades.” Full story The Times, 12th September 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Lawyer Jeffrey Tesler ?bribed officials in $6bn Nigerian gas deal? - The Times

Posted on September 12, 2008
“A suburban solicitor accused of distributing £100 million of bribes to secure lucrative gas contracts is being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office.” Full story The Times, 12th September 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Five years for knife fight killer - BBC News

Posted on September 12, 2008
“A teenager has been sentenced to five years youth detention for stabbing a student to death ‘instinctively’. “ Full story BBC News, 12th September 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Legal row over humanism in religious studies at school - Daily Telegraph

Posted on September 12, 2008
“The exams regulator is being taken to court over its refusal to allow humanism to be taught in religious education classes.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 12th September 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

More freelancers might be taxed as employees after High Court ruling - OUT-LAW.com

Posted on September 11, 2008
“An IT contractor has been hit with a £99,000 tax bill after the High Court ruled that he should be taxed as an employee of the company he undertook work for.” Full story OUT-LAW.com, 10th September 2008 Source: www.out-law.com

High Court ruling attacks ?bits of legal boilerplate, bolted together? - OUT-LAW.com

Posted on September 11, 2008
“A court has attacked lawyers who let word processors do their thinking for them. Standard paragraphs are being bolted together to make nonsensical agreements, said a High Court ruling on Friday.” Full story OUT-LAW.com, 11th September 2008 Source: www...

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on September 11, 2008
The Harwich Haven Harbour Revision Order 2008 The Housing (Approval of a Code of Management Practice) (Student Accommodation) (England) Order 2008 The Fal & Helford Designated Area (Fishing Restrictions) Order 2008 The Housing (Right to Manage) (England) Regulations 2008 The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (No...

Motorist who killed pensioner fined £50 - Daily Telegraph

Posted on September 11, 2008
“A motorist who killed a pensioner while driving friends to a band rehearsal has been fined just £50.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 10th September 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Paraplegic jailed for child abuse - BBC News

Posted on September 11, 2008
“A paraplegic has been jailed for five years after admitting sexual abuse involving children.” Full story BBC News, 9th September 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Reflexologist jailed for sexually assaulting patients - The Independent

Posted on September 11, 2008
“A perverted reflexologist was jailed for eight years today for sexually assaulting four women during treatment sessions.” Full story The Independent, 11th September 2008 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Muslim woman to lodge race case against the Met - The Guardian

Posted on September 11, 2008
“The Metropolitan police is facing another racial discrimination claim from a senior employee amid allegations that a failure of leadership in the force is allowing prejudice to flourish.” Full story The Guardian, 11th September 2008 Source: www...

Inquiry over officer?s Bin Laden outfit - The Guardian

Posted on September 11, 2008
“A police chief superintendent who appeared at a carnival dressed as Osama bin Laden is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, it emerged yesterday.” Full story The Guardian, 11th September 2008 Source: www.guardian...

Hospital consultant who beat wife keeps job - Daily Telegraph

Posted on September 11, 2008
“A General Medical Council (GMC) disciplinary panel has ruled Stuart Brown, 38, a consultant anaesthetist who earns around £100,000 a year, should be suspended for three months, but not struck off.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 10th September 2008 Source: www...

Mother fined £700 for putting rubbish out on wrong day - Daily Telegraph

Posted on September 11, 2008
“Victoria Clarke, 24, left bin bags outside her gate so her four-year-old daughter had more room to play in the family back yard . But litter patrols spotted the rubbish on the pavement and Miss Clarke was taken to magistrates’ court for the offence of ’the advancement of waste...

Muslims accused of aircraft bomb plot to face retrial - The Independent

Posted on September 11, 2008
“Seven young British Muslims are to be retried for plotting to blow up transatlantic passenger jets using home-made liquid explosives in soft drink bottles.” Full story The Independent, 11th September 2008 Source: www.independent.co.uk

No softening of asylum rules for the Iraqis who risked their lives - The Times

Posted on September 11, 2008
“Lawyers acting for Iraqi interpreters who risked their lives working for the British military in Iraq failed yesterday to ease the tight conditions that must be met for them to be resettled in Britain.” Full story The Times, 11th September 2008 Source: www...

Barristers snub major trials in row over fees - The Times

Posted on September 11, 2008
“Dozens of major trials, including rape and murder cases, are under threat because barristers are refusing to work for a minimum £91 an hour.” Full story The Times, 11th September 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Man sentenced for strangling wife - BBC News

Posted on September 11, 2008
“A man who killed his 30-year-old wife and dumped her body in a Staffordshire lay-by has been jailed for seven years.” Full story BBC News, 11th September 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Counting the cost of reforms - The Times

Posted on September 11, 2008
“Fat cats living high on the hog of taxpayers? money ? or impoverished toilers at the front line of the criminal justice system? Lawyers who do legal aid work have always had a bad press and no one shed a tear when ministers announced radical reforms to curb the soaring costs of the £2 billion [...

Man who stole from dying fiancée escapes jail - Daily Telegraph

Posted on September 10, 2008
“A former Black Watch soldier who stole £15,000 of his fiancée’s lottery winnings while she was dying of cancer has been sentenced to 225 hours community service.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 9th September 2008 Source: www.telegraph...

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