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Lords share work secrets via blog - BBC News

Posted on March 17, 2008
“Nine peers are taking part in a blog aimed at publicising the work of the House of Lords.” Full story BBC News, 17th March 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Former lord chief justice condemns ministers over prison conditions - The Guardian

Posted on March 17, 2008
“The former lord chief justice, Lord Woolf, has launched a stinging attack on the government’s criminal justice and prison policy, blaming it for allowing prisons to get so crowded that offenders have little chance to reform and abandon crime...

Bill that could bar Ashcroft from Lords likely to fail - The Guardian

Posted on March 17, 2008
“A backbench parliamentary bill that could have excluded the multimillionaire Tory donor Lord Ashcroft from the Lords is likely to fail after Labour and the Tories joined forces to reject the measure.” Full story The Guardian, 17th March 2008 Source: www...

MoD office worker gets £200,000 payout - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 17, 2008
“Soldiers’ families reacted angrily after it emerged the Ministry of Defence awarded £202,000 to an office employee who strained his back picking up a printer.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 17th March 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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Appeal of two jailed for taxi murders is heard after 13 years - The Guardian

Posted on March 17, 2008
“Nearly 13 years after they were jailed for life for a double murder in Wales, two men will have their appeal against their conviction heard in the court of appeal today.” Full story The Guardian, 17th March 2008 Source: www.guardian.co...

Smith v Chief Constable of Sussex Police - Times Law Reports

Posted on March 17, 2008
Smith v Chief Constable of Sussex Police Court of Appeal “While it was not reasonable to expect the police to answer in damages to every individual whose life or health might have been spared or saved by more competent police work, where someone?s life or safety had been so firmly placed in their hands [...

Regina (Animal Defenders International) v Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport - Times Law Reports

Posted on March 17, 2008
Regina (Animal Defenders International) v Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport House of Lords “The prohibition on political advertising in broadcast media was necessary in a democratic society and not incompatible with the freedom of expression guaranteed by article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights...

Drug addicts ?should not be locked up? - The Independent

Posted on March 17, 2008
“Too many minor criminals with drug problems are being jailed and then receive poor treatment in prison, a damning report warns today.” Full story The Independent, 17th March 2008 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Community penalties hit by long delays - The Guardian

Posted on March 17, 2008
“Offenders who are ordered by the courts to undergo sex offender treatment courses or domestic violence programmes are having to wait up to a year because of a crisis in resources, a probation union survey reveals today.” Full story The Guardian, 17th March 2008 Source: www...

Police spokesman sparks DNA row - BBC News

Posted on March 17, 2008
“Police chiefs have distanced themselves from their new spokesman on DNA matters after he said primary school children could be eligible for the DNA database.” Full story BBC News, 16th March 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Ed Balls plans ?baby Asbos? for 10-year olds - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 17, 2008
“Tearaways as young as 10 are to be targeted with ‘baby Asbos’ to stop them going off the rails.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 17th March 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

NSPCC calls for end to abuse in custody - The Independent

Posted on March 17, 2008
“Britain’s biggest children’s charity will tomorrow (17 March) launch a campaign demanding an end to ‘violent’ and ‘degrading’ assaults on children in custody.” Full story The Independent, 16th March 2008 Source: www...

Inspector urges temporary closure of child jail - The Guardian

Posted on March 17, 2008
“An unprecendented call for the temporary closure of a privately run child jail because of its ’staggeringly high level of use of force by staff’ is made today by the chief inspector of prisons.” Full story The Guardian, 17th March 2008 Source: www...

ECJ tax ruling threatens London stock markets - The Times

Posted on March 17, 2008
“London?s position as a leading capital markets centre is under threat following a European court ruling that will increase the cost of raising money on the London Stock Exchange.” Full story The Times, 14th March 2008 Source: www.timesonline...

MI5 seeks powers to trawl records in new terror hunt - The Guardian

Posted on March 17, 2008
“Millions of commuters could have their private movements around cities secretly monitored under new counter-terrorism powers being sought by the security services.” Full story The Guardian, 16th March 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Soca ?failed? to freeze cash of top criminals - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 17, 2008
“Police have yet to use powers to freeze suspected gangsters’ finances two years after the high-profile launch of an agency to tackle serious crime.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 17th March 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Heather Mills ?to be offered £25-30 million? in divorce judgment - The Times

Posted on March 17, 2008
“Heather Mills is expected to be awarded a lump sum of between £25 million and £30 million in her divorce proceedings with Sir Paul McCartney ? the amount that he offered originally.” Full story The Times, 15th March 2008 Source: www.timesonline...

Full text: McCartney-Mills divorce judgment - The Times

Posted on March 17, 2008
“Mr Justice Bennett issued a summary of his judgment handed down today after hearing the Sir Paul McCartney/Heather Mills divorce case in private.” Full story The Times, 17th March 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on March 14, 2008
The Brucellosis (England) (Amendment) Order 2008 The Accounting Standards (Prescribed Body) Regulations 2008 The National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements and Assessment of Resources) Amendment (England) Regulations 2008 The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (Penalty Charge Notices, Enforcement and Adjudication) (Wales) Regulations 2008 The Rice Products from the United States of America (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) [...

Cash fears of authority which holds legal purse strings - Law Society?s Gazette

Posted on March 14, 2008
“Paul Rogerson looks at the recurring controversy surrounding costs in clinical negligence claims.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 13th March 2008 Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

Calvert v William Hill Credit Ltd - WLR Daily

Posted on March 14, 2008
Calvert v William Hill Credit Ltd [2008] EWHC 454 (Ch); [2008] WLR (D) 87 “Although a bookmaker was not liable in negligence in respect of the gambling losses of a customer who was, and who was known by the bookmaker to be, a problem gambler, a bookmaker who had, at the customer?s request, undertaken to [...

Casewell v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions - WLR Daily

Posted on March 14, 2008
Casewell v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; [2008] WLR (D) 86 “A direct payment of carer?s allowance made to a disabled person for securing the provision of care by her husband formed part of the husband?s earnings for the purposes of assessing his entitlement to income support...

R (Rayner) v Secretary of State for Justice - WLR Daily

Posted on March 14, 2008
R (Rayner) v Secretary of State for Justice [2008] EWCA Civ 176; [2008] WLR (D) 85 “The statutory scheme dealing with the referral of the case a recalled mental patient to a mental health review tribunal was not incompatible with the patient?s rights under the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, [...

R (Kelly) v Secretary of State for Justice; R (Bailey) v Secretary of State for Justice; R (Gibson) v Governor of Wymott Prison - WLR Daily

Posted on March 14, 2008
R (Kelly) v Secretary of State for Justice; R (Bailey) v Secretary of State for Justice; R (Gibson) v Governor of Wymott Prison [2008] EWCA Civ 177; [2008] WLR (D) 84 “Long-term prisoners who had been convicted of offences committed after 29 September 1998 and before 4 April 2005, and who after 4 April 2005 had [...

Regina v Cockburn - Times Law Reports

Posted on March 14, 2008
Regina v Cockburn Court of Appeal, Criminal Division “An anti-intruder device driven by gravity and triggered by pressure on a wire was capable of amounting to an engine calculated to inflict grievous bodily harm, under the Offences against the Person Act 1861...

Norris v Government of the United States of America - Times Law Reports

Posted on March 14, 2008
Norris v Government of the United States of America House of Lords “A person could not be extradited to the United States of America to stand trial on charges brought under US legislation which declared cartels to be illegal, to stand trial for price-fixing offences alleged to have been committed from 1989 to 2000 because during [...

?Lax standards? on data security - BBC News

Posted on March 14, 2008
“The government has persistently failed to take data protection ’sufficiently seriously’ the Joint Committee on Human Rights has warned.” Full story BBC News, 14th March 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Doctor ?gave 17 women with cancer all-clear? - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 14, 2008
“A doctor made ‘barn door-sized errors’ in reading breast scans that led him to wrongly tell 17 women with cancer that they were healthy, a tribunal heard yesterday.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 14th March 2008 Source: www.telegraph...

UK Poles attack Daily Mail ?bias? - The Guardian

Posted on March 14, 2008
“The Federation of Poles in Great Britain has ‘reluctantly’ filed a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission accusing the Daily Mail of defaming Polish residents in the UK.” Full story The Guardian, 14th March 2008 Source: www...

Canoe man facing long prison sentence after admitting fraud - The Guardian

Posted on March 14, 2008
“John Darwin, the former prison officer accused of staging a canoeing accident at sea to fake his death, was yesterday facing a long prison sentence after admitting to a string of fraud charges totalling nearly £250,000.” Full story The Guardian, 14th March 2008 Source: www...

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