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Bar Council and Criminal Bar Association Express Concerns Over Coroners and Justice Bill - The Bar Council

Posted on January 26, 2009
“The Bar Council and the Criminal Bar Association have voiced their concerns over the Coroners and Justice Bill, which receives its Second Reading in the House of Commons on Monday.” Full press reelase The Bar Council, 25th January 2009 Source: www...

Absent parents who don?t pay maintenance could lose passports - The Times

Posted on January 26, 2009
Child maintenance officials will be able to confiscate driving licences and passports from ‘deadbeat dads’ without going to court, under legislation going before Parliament this week.” Full story The Times, 26th January 2009 Source: www...

Cannabis becomes Class B drug today, but no spot fines yet - The Times

Posted on January 26, 2009
“Cannabis is upgraded to a Class B drug today, but users will not be fined after the sudden withdrawal of new powers to allow on-the-spot penalties.” Full story The Times, 26th January 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Children?s database ContactPoint launched despite security fears - Daily Telegraph

Posted on January 26, 2009
“ContactPoint will include the names, ages and addresses of 11 million under-18s as well as information about their parents, GPs and schools. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have pledged to scrap the Ł224million online system - which will be accessed by at least 330,000 workers in the education, health, social care, youth justice and voluntary [...

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Threat to privacy under data law, campaigners warn - Daily Telegraph

Posted on January 26, 2009
“Data held by the police, the NHS, schools, the Inland Revenue, local councils and the DVLA could all end up in private hands, according to Privacy International.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 26th January 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Police will not target offenders against law on violent porn - The Guardian

Posted on January 26, 2009
“Officers will not actively target members of the public to track down those who own violent pornography banned under a new law, police chiefs admitted yesterday.” Full story The Guardian, 26th January 2009 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Music pirates will not be disconnected from the internet - The Times

Posted on January 26, 2009
“Internet service providers will not be forced to disconnect users who repeatedly flout the law by illegally sharing music and video files, The Times has learnt.” Full story The Times, 26th January 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Judges to review the secrecy of royal wills - The Times

Posted on January 26, 2009
“The Royal Family?s 100-year-old convention that their wills may be kept secret is to be reexamined by senior judges..” Full story The Times, 24th January 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

R v Kousar - WLR Daily

Posted on January 23, 2009
R v Kousar [2008]; [2009] WLR (D) 16 “A wife who shared the matrimonial home with her husband, whom she knew was storing merchandise from his business at home, but acquiesced in it being there and did not demand he remove it, was not in control or possession of the goods within the meaning of s [...

R (Low) v Secretary of State for the Home Department - WLR Daily

Posted on January 23, 2009
R (Low) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWHC 35 (Admin); [2009] WLR (D) 15 “A worker, who was a national of a non member state, sent by a service provider exercising its freedom to provide services pursuant to art 49 EC, from one member state to another had to be lawfully resident [...

Jain and another v Trent Strategic Health Authority - WLR Daily

Posted on January 23, 2009
Jain and another v Trent Strategic Health Authority [2009] UKHL 4; [2009] WLR (D) 14 “There was no duty of care in negligence owed by a regulatory authority to the owners of a nursing home against whom the authority had made an ex parte application without notice to the magistrate for cancellation of registration of the [...

BAILII : Recent Decisions

Posted on January 23, 2009
Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Ammah v Kuehne+Nagal Logistics Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 11 (22 January 2009) Basildon District Council v McCarthy & Ors [2009] EWCA Civ 13 (22 January 2009) High Court (Administrative Court) A, R (on the application of) v Coventry City Council [2009] EWHC 34 (Admin) (22 January 2009) Pounder, R (on the application of) v HM [...

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on January 23, 2009
The Energy Act 2008 (Commencement No. 1 and Savings) Order 2009 The A46 Trunk Road (Newark to Widmerpool Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 2009 The A52 Trunk Road (A46 Newark to Widmerpool Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 2009 The A52 Trunk Road (A46 Newark to Widmerpool Improvement and Slip Roads) (Detrunking) Order 2009 The Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 (Commencement No...

Regina (F) v Secretary of State for Justice - Times Law Reports

Posted on January 23, 2009
Regina (F) v Secretary of State for Justice Regina (Thompson) v Secretary of State for the Home Department Queen’s Bench “In the absence of any mechanism for review, placing an offender on the sex offenders register indefinitely was a disproportionate interference with the right to respect for private and family life...

Regina (Wright and Others) v Secretary of State for Health and Another - Times Law Reports

Posted on January 23, 2009
Regina (Wright and Others) v Secretary of State for Health and Another House of Lords “The procedure of effectively banning care workers from working with vulnerable people, without giving them an opportunity to answer any allegations of unsuitability, was incompatible with the right to a fair hearing under article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights...

European regulation on law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I) - Ministry of Justice

Posted on January 23, 2009
“Justice Minister Lord Bach has made a statement announcing the UK’s participation in the European Community regulation on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I).” Full press release Ministry of Justice, 22nd January 2009 Source: www...

Court of Appeal contributes to public confidence in the Criminal Justice System - Judiciary of England and Wales

Posted on January 23, 2009
“Fewer than 1% of all convictions in the Crown Court and just 1.3% of sentences are successfully appealed in the Court of Appeal, which should increase public confidence in the criminal justice system.” Full press release Judiciary of England and Wales, 19th January 2009 Source: www...

Hospital at fault over baby death - BBC News

Posted on January 23, 2009
“A couple from Worcestershire have received a five-figure pay out after hospital staff missed warning signs that led to their baby’s death.” Full story BBC News, 22nd January 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Firm to pay price of trainee sacking - Law Society?s Gazette

Posted on January 23, 2009
“Firms that sack a trainee without the agreement of the Solicitors Regulation Authority could find themselves liable for hefty damages, a landmark employment tribunal decision suggests.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd January 2009 Source: www...

Husband killer fights nursing ban - BBC News

Posted on January 23, 2009
“A 61-year-old woman from Kent who admitted killing her estranged husband with an axe is fighting a decision to strike her off the nurses’ register.” Full story BBC News, 23rd January 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Fears over stop and search powers - BBC News

Posted on January 23, 2009
“Metropolitan Police officers are stopping and searching too many innocent people using powers designed for fighting terrorism, it is claimed.” Full story BBC News, 23rd January 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Woman who let son, three, smoke is sentenced - The Guardian

Posted on January 23, 2009
“A mother who let her three-year-old son smoke a cigarette butt while she talked on the telephone was given a suspended sentence yesterday.” Full story The Guardian, 23rd January 2009 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Straw and Hain censured over donations - The Independent

Posted on January 23, 2009
“Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, and the former cabinet minister Peter Hain received embarrassing rebukes from anti-sleaze watchdogs yesterday over their failure to register donations.” Full story The Independent, 23rd January 2009 Source: www...

Steven Gerrard to appear in court following alleged nightclub attack - Daily Telegraph

Posted on January 23, 2009
“England star Gerrard, 28, is due to appear at North Sefton Magistrates’ Court, in Southport after part-time disc jockey Marcus McGee was allegedly left with bruises and a missing tooth after a fight in the town’s Lounge Club on December 29...

Gypsies on greenbelt site face eviction after court ruling - The Guardian

Posted on January 23, 2009
“More than 100 Gypsy families living illegally on greenbelt land in Essex were yesterday told they would be evicted after a senior judge ruled that allowing them to stay would encourage others to follow their lead.” Full story The Guardian, 23rd January 2009 Soure: www...

Asylum system not coping with backlog of cases, says watchdog - The Guardian

Posted on January 23, 2009
“The asylum system is developing a backlog of new cases that threaten to undermine efforts to clear an existing bank of more than 200,000 ‘legacy cases’, some dating back more than 10 years, a Whitehall spending watchdog warns today...

?Superhead? is banned after giving twin sister Ł80,000 school post - The Times

Posted on January 23, 2009
“A headmistress made a dame after transforming a sink-estate school and then sacked amid accusations of nepotism and financial mismanagement, was yesterday banned from running another school.” Full story The Times, 23rd January 2009 Source: www...