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Adult Social Care: Consultation Phase ? Law Commission

Posted on February 24, 2010
“On 24 February 2010 we published a consultation paper on adult social care, which contains our detailed proposals for law reform.” Full consultation paper Law Commission, 24th February 2010 Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk

Social care law needs simplifying, says Law Commission ? BBC News

Posted on February 24, 2010
“The law and duties covering social care provided by councils in England and Wales need simplifying, experts say. The Law Commission, which advises the government on law reform, said the current system, incorporating 39 different acts, was confusing...

BA pilot holiday pay row lands in court ? BBC News

Posted on February 24, 2010
“British Airways is due in court to fight a union’s attempt to change its policy on holiday pay for pilots.” Full story BBC News, 24th February 2010 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Clothing catalogue broke advertising rules over ?irresponsible? pictures of children ? Daily Telegraph

Posted on February 24, 2010
“The images, from a brochure for the no added sugar Ltd winter collection, breached the advertisers’ code because children could try to copy the images, putting their safety at risk, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2010 Source: www...

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Interrogation practices to be questioned ? The Independent

Posted on February 24, 2010
“Ministers are to face a legal challenge over the use of secret guidance given to members of the secret services when interrogating prisoners abroad. Lawyers and human-rights groups claim the unpublished codes of practice, issued in 2002 and 2004, allowed officers working for MI5 and MI6 to collude in torture...

News of the World phone-hacking scandal: the verdicts ? The Guardian

Posted on February 24, 2010
“What the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee report says about Andy Coulson, the information commissioner, the police and the PCC.” Full story The Guardian, 24th February 2010 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Reckitt could face £775m fine over Gaviscon ?abuse of position? ? The Times

Posted on February 24, 2010
“The maker of Gaviscon indigestion medicine is alleged to have removed one version of the drug from NHS lists to encourage doctors to prescribe a more expensive variety. The Office of Fair Trading said yesterday that Reckitt Benckiser had abused its bestselling position in the market for supplying heartburn medicines to the NHS...

Museum of Liverpool pays £750,000 for blocking view ? BBC News

Posted on February 24, 2010
“Tourism bosses have been hit with a bill of £750,000 because the new Museum of Liverpool partially blocks the view from an iconic waterfront building.” Full story BBC News, 24th February 2010 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Sentence for domestic violence attack doubled after appeal by Attorney General ? Attorney General?s Office

Posted on February 24, 2010
“At the Court of Appeal today the Attorney General, Baroness Patricia Scotland QC, successfully appealed the sentence of a man who picked up a iron which he had heated and repeatedly held to his wife’s face, leaving it on her skin for two to three seconds...

River Thames pleasure boat mate jailed for manslaughter ? BBC News

Posted on February 24, 2010
“A pleasure boat crewman has been jailed for 15 months after he admitted causing the death of a passenger.” Full story BBC News, 24th February 2010 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Escort girl drug doctor suspended by GMC ? BBC News

Posted on February 24, 2010
“A doctor who falsified a prescription for a cocaine-addicted escort girl has been suspended for six months by the General Medical Council (GMC).” Full story BBC News, 24th February 2010 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Wife attacker has sentenced doubled after intervention from Attorney General ? Daily Telegraph

Posted on February 24, 2010
“A man who ‘branded’ his wife’s face with an iron has had his sentenced doubled after the Attorney General personally intervened.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2010 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Home Office to opt out of asylum claims EU directive ? The Guardian

Posted on February 24, 2010
“Home Office ministers are to opt out of a European directive which lays down minimum standards for the treatment of asylum claims because it would mean abandoning a fast-track process that leads to hundreds of asylum seekers being detained every year...

?Choose women, gay and disabled judges over white, middle-class men? ? The Times

Posted on February 24, 2010
“Women, gays, ethnic minority and disabled applicants for jobs as judges should receive preferential treatment over white men in an attempt to make the judiciary reflect modern Britain, an official report recommended today.” Full story The Times, 24th February 2010 Source: www...

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted on February 23, 2010
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division) Robot Arenas Ltd & Anor v Waterf1eld & Anor [2010] EWHC 115 (QB) (08 February 2010) High Court (Chancery Division) Moore v Hotelplan Ltd (t/a Inghams Travel) & Anor [2010] EWHC 276 (Ch) (22 February 2010) Financial Services Authority v Anderson & Ors [2010] EWHC 308 (Ch) (22 February 2010) Source: www...

Recent Statutory Instruments ? OPSI

Posted on February 23, 2010
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 The Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Biological Agents) Regulations 2010 The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Chemical Agents) Regulations 2010 The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at [...

The ethics of professionalism in the 21st century ? Speech by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury

Posted on February 23, 2010
The ethics of professionalism in the 21st century (PDF) Speech by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls Inner Temple Lecture Series, 22nd February 2010 Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk

Hertfordshire County Council v Veolia Water Central Ltd ? WLR Daily

Posted on February 23, 2010
Hertfordshire County Council v Veolia Water Central Ltd [2010] EWHC 278 (QB); [2010] WLR (D) 46 “The effect of regs 3 and 4 of the Street Works (Maintenance) Regulations 1992, when read with s 81 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, was that an highway and street authority could not make a valid [...

Regina (G) v Governors of X School and Others ? Times Law Reports

Posted on February 23, 2010
Regina (G) v Governors of X School and Others Court of Appeal “A teacher was entitled to legal representation in disciplinary proceedings which might lead to a referral to the Secretary of State for Children School and Families, who could bar him from teaching children...

Regina (Davies and Another) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners; Regina (Gaines-Cooper) v Same ? Times Law Reports

Posted on February 23, 2010
Regina (Davies and Another) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners; Regina (Gaines-Cooper) v Same Court of Appeal “The Revenue had not altered its interpretation or guidance in assessing whether taxpayers had achieved non-resident status.” The Times, 23rd February 2010 Source: www...

Regina v H (Criminal propensity) ? Times Law Reports

Posted on February 23, 2010
Regina v H (Criminal propensity) Court of Appeal “Evidence of criminal propensity on the part of a person other than the defendant might be admissible under the provisions of section 100 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 which dealt with bad character...

Depressed dog handler forgot about alsatians he left to die in hot car ? The Times

Posted on February 23, 2010
“A police dog handler who caused the death of two alsatians by leaving them in a hot car should have been treated for depression, a judge said yesterday.” Full story The Times, 23rd February 2010 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Punishment must fit the crime when paying tax bills late ? The Times

Posted on February 23, 2010
“As the recession began to bite, the Chancellor gave an undertaking that HM Revenue & Customs would take a more accommodating approach to businesses that genuinely had difficulty in making tax payments on time. However, as the recession has progressed and tax revenues have plummeted, this undertaking has often been less apparent in practice...

Heathrow third runway plans face legal challenge ? BBC News

Posted on February 23, 2010
“Environmental groups, local councils and residents opposed to a third runway at Heathrow are beginning a legal challenge to the government’s plans.” Full story BBC News, 23rd February 2010 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Female NHS manager jailed for sexual assault on woman colleague ? Daily Telegraph

Posted on February 23, 2010
“A senior NHS manager has been jailed for subjecting a female colleague to a violent and humiliating sexual assault while the two women shared a hotel room.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 23rd February 2010 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

The law: bullying in the workplace ? The Independent

Posted on February 23, 2010
“Q. What constitutes ‘bullying’? A. Differences of opinion and even short-lived arguments are an unavoidable part of the workplace. The natural conflicts of a working environment turn into bullying when aggressive behaviour becomes regular and vindictive...

Has the John Terry case doomed super-injunctions? ? BBC News

Posted on February 23, 2010
“The lifting of so called super-injunctions in the cases of the footballer John Terry and the multi-national company Trafigura have been heralded by the papers as victories for the press in the battle over tightening publication laws.” Full story BBC News, 23rd February 2010 Source: www...

Family court reforms face opposition from judges and childrens? groups ? The Times

Posted on February 23, 2010
“Reforms to open up the family courts to the media are at risk of being scuppered by mounting opposition from senior judges, lawyers, children?s groups and MPs, The Times has learnt.” Full story The Times, 23rd February 2010 Source: www.timesonline...

Crown Prosecution Service in London is ?near meltdown? ? The Independent

Posted on February 23, 2010
“Parts of the Crown Prosecution Service in London are in ‘meltdown’ with criminals being handed ‘get out of jail free cards’ while ‘open and shut’ cases are being thrown out of court, a memo seen by The Independent claims...

Prisoner early release scheme to be halted ? The Guardian

Posted on February 23, 2010
“The prison service’s early release scheme under which more than 80,000 prisoners have walked out of jail 18 days early is to end by 10 April, when the general election campaign is widely expected to be getting under way.” Full story The Guardian, 22nd February 2010 Source: www...

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