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Violent women: binge drinking culture fuels rise in attacks by women - Daily Telegraph

Posted on July 31, 2008
“The number of violent offences carried out by women has doubled in just five years, official figures show.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Hacker vows to fight extradition - BBC News

Posted on July 31, 2008
“A Briton accused of hacking into top-secret military computers has vowed to fight extradition to stand trial in the US after losing a court appeal.” Full story BBC News, 30th July 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Illegal file-sharing: Government hits back at BPI over last-minute letter - The Guardian

Posted on July 31, 2008
“A hardline letter sent by the BPI at the 11th hour threatened to undermine a deal to tackle illegal file-sharing, prompting the government to express its displeasure of the music industry body in a terse response to record label executives.” Full story The Guardian, 31st July 2008 Source: www...

Restaurant tipping law to change - BBC News

Posted on July 31, 2008
“Employers are to be banned from using tips and service charges to ‘top up’ staff pay to meet the minimum wage, under government plans.” Full story BBC News, 30th July 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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UK judges reject proposals to bring in non-peer appraisals - Legal Week

Posted on July 31, 2008
“The UK?s top judges have backed away from proposals that would have seen them appraised by court users, despite strong support from senior City litigators.” Full story Legal Week, 31st July 2008 Source: www.legalweek.com

How is the recession hitting lawyers? - The Times

Posted on July 31, 2008
“Is the credit crunch going to crack open the legal business and hack back the ambitions and prospects of lawyers? “ Full story The Times, 31st July 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

A boy can legally have two fathers, judge rules in landmark case - Daily Telegraph

Posted on July 31, 2008
“A five-year-old boy has been given two legal fathers in a landmark Court of Appeal ruling which declares there is ‘no limit’ to the number of parents a child can have.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2008 Source: www.telegraph...

Constitution reforms ?need work? - BBC News

Posted on July 31, 2008
“Ministers need to think more about plans to reform the UK constitution before they are ready to become law, MPs and peers have said.” Full story BBC News, 31st July 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Daily Cause List, 1st August 2008

Posted on July 31, 2008
Friday 1st August 2008 Source: www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk Please note only the current day?s cause list will be accessible

31,500 prisoners released early - BBC News

Posted on July 31, 2008
“More than 31,500 criminals were freed early in England and Wales in the first year of a scheme to free up overcrowded jails, official figures show.” Full story BBC News, 31st July 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted on July 31, 2008
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) Mitchell v Revenue & Customs Prosecutions Office & Anor [2008] EWCA Crim 1741 (30 July 2008) S & Ors, R v [2008] EWCA Crim 1636 (4 July 2008) Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Lifely v Lifely [2008] EWCA Civ 904 (30 July 2008) KH (Sudan) & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [...

Daily Cause List, 30th July 2008

Posted on July 30, 2008
Wednesday 30th July 2008 Source: www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk Please note only the current day?s cause list will be accessible

BBC fined �400,000 over phone-ins - BBC News

Posted on July 30, 2008
“The BBC has been fined �400,000 by media watchdog Ofcom for misleading its audiences by ‘faking’ phone-ins.” Full story BBC News, 30th July 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Tesco tax avoidance schemes can form part of libel case, judge rules - The Guardian

Posted on July 30, 2008
“Details of elaborate offshore corporation tax avoidance schemes operated by Tesco were yesterday allowed to be introduced into evidence in a libel case the supermarket chain is bringing against the Guardian.” Full story The Guardian, 30th July 2008 Source: www...

Regina (Thames Water Utilities Ltd) v Bromley Magistrates? Court (Water Services Regulation Authority intervening) - WLR Daily

Posted on July 30, 2008
Regina (Thames Water Utilities Ltd) v Bromley Magistrates? Court (Water Services Regulation Authority intervening) [2008] EWHC 1763 (QB); [2008] WLR (D) 264 “Sewage escaping from pipes maintained by a statutory undertaker was ?controlled waste? within the meaning of s 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990...

ETI Euro Telecom International NV v Republic of Bolivia and another - WLR Daily

Posted on July 30, 2008
ETI Euro Telecom International NV v Republic of Bolivia and another [2008] EWCA Civ 880; [2008] WLR (D) 263 “International arbitration proceedings were not ‘proceedings’ for the purpose of s 25 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 to enable the English court to grant interim relief to preserve the outcome of the arbitration proceedings...

Regina( C) v Secretary of State for Justice - WLR Daily

Posted on July 30, 2008
Regina( C) v Secretary of State for Justice; [2008] WLR (D) 262 “The introduction of an amendment to the Secure Training Centre Rules to permit physical restraint of young offenders in secure training centres to ensure good order and discipline without prior consultation with the Children?s Commissioner was unlawful and engaged art 3 of the European [...

Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Co SAL and others (No 4) - WLR Daily

Posted on July 30, 2008
Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Co SAL and others (No 4) [2008] EWCA Civ 876; [2008] WLR (D) 261 “The court had jurisdiction under CPR r 71.2 to order the examination of a foreign director of a company which had submitted to the jurisdiction, defended a claim on the merits and failed to pay the judgment [...

JT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department - WLR Daily

Posted on July 30, 2008
JT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 878; [2008] WLR (D) 260 “When construing s 8(1) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004, which provided various factors that the court should take account of in assessing the credibility of an asylum seeker, the qualifying word ?potentially? [...

Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd - Times Law Reports

Posted on July 30, 2008
Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd Queen’s Bench Division “It was not for the media to expose sexual conduct between consenting adults which did not involve any significant breach of the criminal law except where there was a countervailing public interest because at least one of the established limiting principles, such as victimisation or corruption of the [...

Crime: Map shows domestic violence is everywhere - The Guardian

Posted on July 30, 2008
“Humberside police service recorded the highest number of women murdered by their partners, and the City of London police the lowest, in the past five years, according to a new map of murder rates across England and Wales published by the government’s Equalities Unit yesterday...

Ruling due in witness murder case - BBC News

Posted on July 30, 2008
“Law Lords are expected to rule later on whether a police force breached the human rights of a witness who was murdered before he could give evidence.” Full story BBC News, 30th July 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Legal Opinion: Privacy on parade in Fleet Street and the law courts - The Independent

Posted on July 30, 2008
“Our shy and retiring privacy law is rarely out of the media spotlight. The media lawyer Amber Melville-Brown suggests why we should be grateful that it exists.” Full story The Independent, 30th July 2008 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Single-minded pursuit - The Guardian

Posted on July 30, 2008
“Government guidance on cohesion is thought to have spurred some councils to stop funding black and minority ethnic charities. But now a high court victory could force a serious rethink. Saba Salman reports.” Full story The Guardian, 30th July 2008 Source: www...

Sikh teenager Sarika Watkins-Singh wins right to wear bangle - The Times

Posted on July 30, 2008
“A Sikh teenager won a legal battle yesterday over her right to wear a bangle that she holds central to her faith.” Full story The Times, 30th July 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Plans for computer games classifications Q&A - The Guardian

Posted on July 30, 2008
“Where do the plans for new rules come from? Earlier this year, Tanya Byron, a psychologist advising the Government, said that video game ratings should to be overhauled to make them easier for parents and children to understand.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2008 Source: www...

Ruling due on hacker extradition - BBC News

Posted on July 30, 2008
“The Law Lords are due to decide whether a Briton accused of hacking into top secret military computers should be extradited to the US to stand trial.” Full story BBC News, 30th July 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Curse of the DNA register - The Independent

Posted on July 30, 2008
“A generation of young Britons is being criminalised for life by the relentless expansion of the national DNA database, ministers are warned today.” Full story The Independent, 30th July 2008 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Max Mosley case: are judges strangling the freedom of the press by stealth? - The Times

Posted on July 30, 2008
“A ‘dangerous’ precedent of which the victim is public morality; a ruling that trivialises ‘unspeakable and indecent behaviour’ that is ‘depraved, brutal and repugnant’, thundered Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, this week...

A huge job for the boys - The Guardian

Posted on July 30, 2008
“The minister for police, security and community safety tells Julie Bindel how he wants men to take a more responsible attitude towards domestic and sexual violence against women - and to spread the word to others.” Full story The Guardian, 29th July 2008 Source: www...

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