Last 3 months headlines – Page 1303
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Immigration
Leave to remain - Appeal - Right to respect for private and family life AJ v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lords Justice Pill, Etherton, Sir Mark Potter): 21 September 2011 ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence - Assault occasioning actual bodily harm R v James: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Richards, Mr Justice Keith, Mr Justice Nicol): 22 September 2011 ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence R v Hudson: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Elias, Mr Justice Eady, Mr Justice Macduff): 21 September 2011 The Court of Appeal, ...
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Sentencing
Custodial sentence - Sexual assault R v Borrill: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Elias, Mr Justice Eady, Mr Justice Macduff): 21 September 2011
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence R v Davies: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Elias, Mr Justice Eady, Mr Justice Macduff): 20 September 2011 The Court of Appeal, ...
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The politics of judicial independence
Did magistrates and judges help bring an end to the riots that ravaged English city centres in August? I suspect the prime minister’s decision to put additional police on the streets made more of an impact, but it seems reasonable to suppose that some unexpectedly tough sentences, reviewed by the ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence R v Flanders: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Richards, Mr Justice Keith, Mr Justice Nicol): 20 September 2011 The Court of Appeal, Criminal ...
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Sentencing
Dangerous offenders - Life imprisonment R v Brown: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Elias, Mr Justice Eady, Mr Justice Macduff): 23 September 2011 The Court of Appeal, Criminal ...
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Law firm to trade on stock market
A law firm specialising in advising business startups has today announced its intention to list on a stock market. Oxfordshire-based Everyman Legal will apply to become an alternative business structure in early 2012 and seek admission to the market in the final quarter of next year. ...
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Libel report calls for cap on hourly rates
Lawyers’ hourly rates in libel cases should be capped so that the cost of defending a libel action does not inhibit free speech or give the wealthier of the two parties an unfair advantage, the Libel Reform Campaign urges in a report published today. The report ...
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High Court hears LSC contracts challenge
The High Court has heard a legal challenge against the Legal Services Commission’s decision not to award a contract to a community care solicitor. Yvonne Hossack (pictured), a sole practitioner at Kettering firm Hossacks, sought a judicial review after she failed to win any contracts in ...
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Employment
European Union - Employment - Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of age Prigge and others v Deutsche Lufthansa AG: Court of Justice of the European Union (Grand Chamber) (Judges Skouris (President), Tizzano, Cunha Rodrigues, Lenaerts, Bonichot, Schiemann, Svaby ...
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Dishonesty, statements of truth, and Jackson
It is a strange world. The perception was, and remains, that legal costs in fast-track road traffic claims are disproportionate to damages. The solution was to ask a senior judge, Lord Justice Jackson, with minimal practical experience of personal injury litigation, to review and report. ...
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Government proposals for openness in healthcare ignore the lessons of the past
I was interested to read Paul Sankey on proposals to introduce a duty of candour as part of the health reforms. There is nothing new in this, as those familiar with the inquiry into the management of care of children receiving complex heart surgery at ...
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SRA is not balanced
I read with great concern the article by Gregory Treverton-Jones QC and have the following observations. There should be a cause of action against the SRA for negligence in publishing unproven allegations which are subsequently shown to be unprovable (that is, where the solicitor wins the ...