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Tories plan change to law on DNA - The Independent

Posted on April 06, 2009
“The DNA records of innocent people should be deleted from the national database, the Conservatives have said.” Full story The Independent, 6th April 2009 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Rapist has sentence cut on appeal - BBC News

Posted on April 03, 2009
“A man who raped a woman he kidnapped from a supermarket car park has had his sentence cut at the Court of Appeal.” Full story BBC News, 2nd April 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Kidnappers detained for 34 years - BBC News

Posted on April 03, 2009
“A gang of kidnappers who held a man for 23 hours have been given jail terms ranging from eight to four years.” Full story BBC News, 3rd April 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

BBC fined £150,000 over Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross phone prank scandal - The Guardian

Posted on April 03, 2009
“Ofcom censures corporation over offensive messages Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross left on Andrew Sachs’s voicemail.” Full story The Guardian, 3rd April 2009 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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Licences plan for clamping firms - BBC News

Posted on April 03, 2009
“Wheel clamping companies will have to conform to tough new licensing regulations in order to operate, under new Home Office proposals.” Full story BBC News, 3rd April 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Playboy TV fined over sex scenes - BBC News

Posted on April 03, 2009
“Ofcom has fined Playboy TV £22,500 for broadcasting unencrypted explicit ‘adult material.’ “ Full story BBC News, 3rd April 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Only 14 firms become first-wave LDPs - Law Society?s Gazete

Posted on April 03, 2009
“The legal profession has largely snubbed the first wave of the Legal Services Act?s business structure reforms, with only 14 legal disciplinary practices up and running as the new regime came into force on Tuesday.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 2nd April 2009 Source: www...

Access to civil justice is failing, says Association of District Judges president - Law Society?s Gazette

Posted on April 03, 2009
“Access to justice in the civil courts is worse than it was a decade ago and is set to decline further, according to the new president of the Association of District Judges.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette. 2nd April 2009 Source: www...

Doleman v Shaw - WLR Daily

Posted on April 03, 2009
Doleman v Shaw [2009] EWCA Civ 283; [2009] WLR (D) 115 “On a true construction of s 178(4) of the Insolvency Act 1986, on the disclaimer of a lease by a liquidator, although the company ceased to be bound by the tenant covenants so far as its own obligations were concerned, it was treated as still [...

In re A (Child: Overseas adoption) - Times Law Reports

Posted on April 03, 2009
In re A (Child: Overseas adoption) Court of Appeal “In the context of an overseas adoption, a child?s home with prospective adopters during the period of ten weeks immediately prior to the making of an order for parental responsibility was not required to be in the United Kingdom...

Dobson and Others v Thames Water Utilities Ltd - Times Law Reports

Posted on April 03, 2009
Dobson and Others v Thames Water Utilities Ltd Court of Appeal “Where a court was considering an award of damages to an occupier of land for loss of amenity following transitory nuisance, the actual impact on the occupier would be relevant.” The Times, 3rd April 2009 Source: www...

Kelly and Another v GE Healthcare Ltd - Times Law Reports

Posted on April 03, 2009
Kelly and Another v GE Healthcare Ltd Chancery Division “Compensation for employed inventors of inventions of outstanding benefit to the employer should be determined after the event, not before, in accordance with all available evidence so as to secure a just and fair reward to the employee...

UK Border Agency reaches full agency status and publishes framework agreement and business plan - UK Border Agency

Posted on April 03, 2009
“The UK Border Agency, which was established as a shadow executive agency in April 2008, has today begun to operate as a full executive agency of the Home Office. “ Full press release UK Border Agency, 1st April 2009 Source: www.ukba.homeoffice...

New measures to boost United Kingdom fight against human trafficking - UK Border Agency

Posted on April 03, 2009
“Victims of human trafficking will receive better protection and support under new measures coming into force in the United Kingdom today.” Full press reelase UK Border Agency, 1st April 2009 Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk

Attorney General decision on Binyam - Attorney General?s Office

Posted on April 03, 2009
“Attorney General decision on Binyam.” Full press release Attorney General’s Office. 26th March 2009 Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk

Important changes to the Bar?s complaints and disciplinary system - Bar Standards Board

Posted on April 03, 2009
“The Bar Standards Board is pleased to announce that, following a review of the complaints and disciplinary system, new improvements to the system have been introduced.” Full press release Bar Standards Board, 31st March 2009 Source: www.barstandardsboard...

Buy-to-let tycoon jailed for conning millions from investors - The Guardian

Posted on April 03, 2009
“A buy-to-let property tycoon who conned investors out of millions of pounds to fund lavish lifestyles for himself and the firm’s directors was jailed today.” Full story The Guardian, 2nd April 2009 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Did the handling of the G20 protests reveal the future of policing? - The Guardian

Posted on April 03, 2009
“This week police used ‘kettling’ - penning marchers in an area and refusing to let them out - to deal with the G20 demonstrations. Is this really the most sensible way to tackle protests?” Full story The Guardian, 3rd April 2009 Source: www...

Abused couple lose £100,000 damages - The Times

Posted on April 03, 2009
“A vulnerable couple who were subjected to savage abuse by a gang of youths have been stripped of their £100,000 damages payout by senior judges.” Full story  The Times, 3rd April 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Health ?super-regulator? CQC orders 21 hospital trusts to clean up - The Times

Posted on April 03, 2009
“Warnings about substandard levels of hygiene and infection control have been issued to twenty-one NHS trusts, including four flagship foundation hospitals. The Care Quality Commission (CQC), the new ’super-regulator’ for health and social care that started work on Wednesday, said that the trusts had failed to meet standards on cleanliness...

Man jailed for stepdaughter rape - BBC News

Posted on April 03, 2009
“A man who raped his teenage stepdaughter making her pregnant before she suffered a miscarriage, has been jailed for 12 years.” Full story BBC News, 3rd April 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Verdict on prison death quashed - BBC News

Posted on April 03, 2009
“A fresh inquest has been ordered into the death of a prison inmate who was found hanged in his cell.” Full story BBC News, 3rd April 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on April 03, 2009
The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2009 The European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2009 The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 The Armed Forces (Naval Chaplains) Regulations 2009 The Mental Capacity (Deprivation of Liberty: Monitoring and Reporting; and Assessments -Amendment) Regulations 2009 The Zimbabwe (Financial Sanctions) Regulations 2009 The Plastic [...

Law Commission welcomes reform of outdated trusts law - Law Commission

Posted on April 02, 2009
“The Law Commission welcomes the introduction of the Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill in the House of Lords today.” Full story (PDF) Law Commission, 1st April 2009 Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk

EDO Corpn v Ultra Electronics Ltd - WLR Daily

Posted on April 02, 2009
EDO Corpn v Ultra Electronics Ltd [2009] EWHC 682 (Ch); [2009] WLR (D) 114 “The procedure for pre-action disclosure provided by s 33(2) of the Supreme Act 1981 was not available to a party where the underlying dispute he might have with the proposed defendant arose out of a contract which required any dispute to be [...

R (A) v Secretary of State for Health - WLR Daily

Posted on April 02, 2009
R (A) v Secretary of State for Health [2009] EWCA Civ 225; [2009] WLR (D) 113 “A failed asylum seeker was not ‘ordinarily resident’ within the United Kingdom for the purposes of entitlement to treatment as of right by the National Health Service free of charge...

In re Overnight Ltd Goldfarb v Higgins and Another - Times Law Reports

Posted on April 02, 2009
In re Overnight Ltd Goldfarb v Higgins and Another Chancery Division “The cause of action for fraudulent trading under section 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986 accrued on the making of the winding-up order.” The Times, 2nd April 2009 Source: www...

Regina (A) v Secretary of State for Health - Times Law Reports

Posted on April 02, 2009
Regina (A) v Secretary of State for Health Court of Appeal “A failed asylum seeker was not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom so as to be entitled to free treatment by the National Health Service.” The Times, 2nd April 2009 Source: www...

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted on April 02, 2009
Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Napp Pharmaceutical Holdings Ltd v Ratiopharm GmbH [2009] EWCA Civ 252 (01 April 2009) Partridge Farms Ltd, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2009] EWCA Civ 284 (01 April 2009) Myerson v Myerson [2009] EWCA Civ 282 (01 April 2009) Shaw v Doleman [2009] EWCA [...

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on April 02, 2009
The International Headquarters and Defence Organisations (Designation and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 2009 The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2009 The Road Vehicles (Individual Approval) (Fees) Regulations 2009 The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval and Approval Marks) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 The Renewables Obligation Order 2009 The Financial Assistance Scheme and Incapacity Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 The Occupational Pension Schemes (Levy Ceiling) Order [...

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