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Patient?s sex attack carer jailed - BBC News

Posted on July 29, 2008
“A care worker has been jailed for nine years for carrying out a ‘vicious’ sex attack on an elderly patient at a nursing home.” Full story BBC News, 29th July 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Sarika Watkins-Singh wins right to wear bangle at school - The Times

Posted on July 29, 2008
“A Sikh girl who took her fight for the right to wear a religious bangle at school to the High Court has won a landmark claim for discrimination.” Full story The Times, 29th July 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Baby in mortuary since 1987 to be buried by council - The Guardian

Posted on July 28, 2008
“The remains of a baby boy that have been in a mortuary for more than 21 years because his parents refused to register his death are to be buried by a council without their consent.” Full story The Guardian, 28th July 2008 Source: www.guardian...

Police demand action after pubs ditch drinking code - The Guardian

Posted on July 28, 2008
“The drinks industry has torn up a voluntary code banning aggressive happy-hour deals and other irresponsible drinks promotions in more than half of the UK’s 57,000 pubs.” Full story The Guardian, 28th July 2008 Source: www.guardian...

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Coleman v Attridge Law and another - WLR Daily

Posted on July 28, 2008
Coleman v Attridge Law and another (Case C-303/06); [2008] WLR (D) 257 “The person whose disability gave rise to direct discrimination against an employee, so as to constitute an infringement of Directive 2000/78 on equal treatment and occupation, could in principle be a disabled child of the employee, and was not limited to the employee himself, [...

R v Sivaraman - WLR Daily

Posted on July 28, 2008
R v Sivaraman; [2008] WLR (D) 256 “There was no rule of law to the effect that, for the purposes of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the amount of the benefit to each of the co-conspirators to a fraud must be taken as the whole amount of the loss attributable to the fraud: the amount [...

Shore v Sedgwick Financial Services Ltd and another - WLR Daily

Posted on July 28, 2008
Shore v Sedgwick Financial Services Ltd and another [2008] EWCA Civ 863; [2008] WLR (D) 255 “Where a client, on the advice of a financial adviser, shifted his pension investment from a relatively safe occupational final salary pension scheme to a new more risky personal pension income withdrawal scheme, which later suffered in value owing to [...

CTI Group Inc v Transclear SA - WLR Daily

Posted on July 28, 2008
CTI Group Inc v Transclear SA [2008] EWCA Civ 856; [2008] WLR (D) 254 “A contract for the sale by description of unascertained goods of a specified origin was not frustrated where although delivery of the goods remained physically and legally possible, the seller?s suppliers chose, for whatever reason, not to make them available...

NA v United Kingdom (Application No. 25904/07)- Times Law Reports

Posted on July 28, 2008
NA v United Kingdom (Application No. 25904/07) European Court of Human Rights ” The level of risk of ill-treatment in returning failed asylum-seekers to Sri Lanka was indicated by the fact that since 2007 the European Court of Human Rights has granted interim measures preventing the return of 342 Tamil applicants from the United Kingdom...

Equal pay: Unions face compensation claims of up to �100m - The Guardian

Posted on July 28, 2008
“Unions are facing the threat of a compensation bill for as much as �100m in the wake of an appeal court ruling that they broke the law by discriminating against women indirectly in the way they settled equal pay claims in local government.” Full story The Guardian, 28th July 2008 Source: www...

Disabled youngsters forced into marriage to provide passports - The Independent

Posted on July 28, 2008
“Scores of young people with learning disabilities are being forced into marriages, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.” Full story The Independent, 27th July 2008 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Victory for fair tips campaign as ministers act - The Independent

Posted on July 28, 2008
“The Government is to outlaw the practice under which restaurants pay staff less than the national minimum wage and make up the rest in tips, following The Independent’s ‘fair tips, fair pay’ campaign.” Full story The Independent, 28th July 2008 Source: www...

Battered women: Change in murder law seeks to aid victims of domestic abuse - The Guardian

Posted on July 28, 2008
“Judges have expressed disappointment that the government will not announce this week plans to introduce American-style charges of first- and second-degree murder.” Full story The Guardian, 28th July 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

CPS lawyer works as nude model while on sick leave - Daily Telegraph

Posted on July 28, 2008
“Clifford Allison, 56, from the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime Division, has advertised his services online, saying his work preferences include ‘lingerie, glamour, implied nude, adult and topless.’” Full story Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2008 Source: www...

UK Guantanamo man in legal battle - BBC News

Posted on July 28, 2008
“A British resident held in Guantanamo Bay is to launch a court battle to make the UK government release evidence for his defence.” Full story BBC News, 27th July 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Media: Mosley to sue News of the World for libel after high court success - The Guradian

Posted on July 28, 2008
“Max Mosley is suing the News of the World for libel, having last week won a record �60,000 in damages from the paper for invasion of privacy.” Full story The Guardian, 28th July 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

MPs ?misled over army torture? - The Independent

Posted on July 28, 2008
“Claims that a senior army general and a defence minister misled MPs and peers over British troops’ use of banned interrogation techniques will be examined by a public inquiry into the mistreatment of prisoners, the Defence Secretary, Des Browne, said...

After 21 years in a freezer, baby boy will be buried against his parents? wishes - The Times

Posted on July 28, 2008
“The body of a baby boy that has been lying in a mortuary freezer for 21 years is to be buried against his parents? wishes after a council used new powers to formalise his death.” Full story The Times, 28th July 2008 Source: www.timesonline...

A canny kiss and tell - The Guardian

Posted on July 28, 2008
“The News of the World editor, Colin Myler, will this week be examining the complex balance sheet resulting from his near-�1m legal battle with Max Mosley. But the financial penalties are by no means fatal, either for Myler’s career or for the fortunes of his paper...

Daily Cause List, 28th July 2008

Posted on July 28, 2008
Monday 28th July 2008 Source: www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk Please note only the current day?s cause list will be accessible

?Basil Fawlty? groper leaves handprints on victim - Daily Telegraph

Posted on July 28, 2008
“Peter Notridge had been working on his car moments before he fondled a woman in the street, covering her top with evidence.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 28th July 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Opinion: Anti-discrimination laws need to be made consistent - The Lawyer

Posted on July 28, 2008
“The European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently gave judgment in Coleman v Attridge Law (2008). In so doing, it clarified the remit of the Framework Directive (2000/78/EC), which was adopted in November 2000 to combat discrimination in the workplace on grounds of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation...

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on July 28, 2008
The Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 (Specified Organisations) Order 2008 The Freedom of Information (Parliament and National Assembly for Wales) Order 2008 The Finance Act 2008, Section 29 (Appointed Day) Order 2008 The Finance Act 2008, Section 30 (Appointed Day) Order 2008 The Finance Act 2008, Section 28 (Appointed Day) Order 2008 The Finance Act 2008, Section 27 (Appointed Day) [...

FSA launches third insider trading case - The Times

Posted on July 28, 2008
“The financial watchdog has continued its crackdown on market manipulation with another prosecution.” Full story The Times, 28th July 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Crime maps online ?by end 2008? - BBC News

Posted on July 28, 2008
“New interactive maps which will allow every neighbourhood in England and Wales to access local crime information will be ready by the end of the year.” Full story BBC News, 28th July 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Court bans physical restraint methods used on children in custody - The Guardian

Posted on July 28, 2008
“Physical restraint methods on young people in secure training centres (STCs) ? including pulling back thumbs ? have been outlawed today by the Court of Appeal.” Full story The Guardian, 28th July 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk