Lawyer news

• Boy wins £120,000 damages for narcolepsy triggered by swine flu vaccine

  10-06-2015 22:06
  
  Ruling comes after government claimed illness was not serious enough to merit payment, and opens door for up to 100 families to seek compensationA 12-year-old boy has been awarded £120,000 by a court that agreed he had been left severely disabled by narcolepsy triggered by the swine flu vaccine, following a three-year battle in which the government had claimed that his illness was not serious enough to merit payment. The ruling is expected to lead to as many as 100 other families of people
  
  Read more

• Tintin in the law courts: adventure of the previously unseen 73-year-old letter

  10-06-2015 20:50
  
  Heirs of Tintin creator, Hergé, have challenged Dutch ruling based on a long-lost letter by him that they do not own all reproduction rights Quite what the incompetent detectives Dupont and Dupond – that’s Thomson and Thompson to British readers – would make of it is anyone’s guess.Relatives of the legendary Belgian cartoonist and Tintin creator Georges Remi, known as Hergé, are crying “stop thief” after a Dutch court denied them the reproduction rights to the celebrated cart
  
  Read more

• Kevin Lane's appeal argument outlines alternative scenario for Magill murder

  10-06-2015 19:07
  
  Barrister draws ‘compelling picture’ for judges that implicates pair who were jailed after being convicted in 2005 of another murderTwo men were named in the court of appeal on Wednesday as the likeliest suspects for a contract killing for which another man has served 20 years in prison. The court also heard that a corrupt detective played a major part in the conviction of Kevin Lane, who was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 1996 for the murder of Robert Magill. Magill was shot dead in 1
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Osborne's budget surplus law follows UK tradition of moving goalposts - Financial Times

  10-06-2015 18:39
  Financial Times
  Osborne's budget surplus law follows UK tradition of moving goalposts
  Financial Times
  George Osborne's new law requiring British governments to run a budget surplus in “normal times” will be the third fiscal rule he has made since becoming UK chancellor in 2010. The first committed the previous coalition government to eliminate the ...
  George Osborne wants to force future governments to tax more than they spendBusiness Insideralle 131 nieuwsartikelen »
  
  Read more

• Legal aid fees to be cut by 8.75%, confirms Ministry of Justice

  10-06-2015 17:27
  
  Lawyers damn department’s first major spending decision since Michael Gove became justice secretary, saying cuts could undermine criminal justice systemLegal aid fees for criminal solicitors will be cut by 8.75% and the number of contracts for attending police stations and magistrates court reduced by two-thirds, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed.The department’s first major spending decision since Michael Gove became justice secretary triggered protests from lawyers who had hoped to avo
  
  Read more

• Exceptional case funding scheme ‘inaccessible’, High Court told

  10-06-2015 16:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Charity argues government’s safety net of providing legal aid ‘unfit for purpose’ as three-day hearing gets under way.
  
  Read more

• 34-year-old man first person to be convicted under forced marriage laws

  10-06-2015 16:17
  
  Cardiff businessman subjected victim to years of abuse, ‘systemic’ rape and blackmail involving hidden camera footage A businessman has become the first person in the UK to be prosecuted under forced marriage laws introduced a year ago.The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was jailed for 16 years after making a 25-year-old woman marry him under duress last year. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Businessman is first person jailed under forced marriage laws

  10-06-2015 16:17
  
  34-year-old from Cardiff subjected victim to years of abuse, systematic rape and blackmail involving hidden camera footageA businessman has become the first person in the UK to be jailed under forced marriage laws introduced a year ago.The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Wednesday after making a 25-year-old woman marry him under duress last year. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Release the Congolese activists still in jail for planning peaceful demonstrations

  10-06-2015 16:06
  
  Activists from the pro-democracy Filimbi youth movement have been held since March as tensions between civil society and the Kabila government grow When Congolese youth leaders and their Senegalese and Burkinabé colleagues met in March to launch a campaign for democracy, the regime reacted forcefully.Related: Power in Africa: democracy mapped The state has failed to provide the youths with the basic services that they expect of their leaders Related: Banks in the DRC: the community that s
  
  Read more

• Senators lead bipartisan push to write ban on torture into US law

  10-06-2015 16:05
  
  Heavyweights John McCain and Dianne Feinstein sponsor amendmentMeasure would make it hard for successor to overturn Obama’s orderSix months after the Senate released a report detailing some of the gruesome interrogation tactics employed by the CIA after 9/11, a bipartisan pair of senators is seeking to permanently outlaw torture.
  Senator John McCain, a Republican of Arizona, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California, introduced a measure on Tuesday that would limit the US govern
  
  Read more

• Jean Charles de Menezes arguments heard in Strasbourg

  10-06-2015 15:48
  
  Case against Metropolitan police over killing of Brazilian electrician in 2005 reaches European court of human rightsA panel of more than 20 judges at the European court of human rights (ECHR) has heard arguments that Metropolitan police officers should be prosecuted for the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes.Nearly a decade after the Brazilian electrician died at the hands of officers hunting for suspected suicide bombers, lawyers for his family have taken their campaign for justice and account
  
  Read more

• Government forges ahead with legal aid cuts

  10-06-2015 15:19 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tenders and second fee reduction to proceed as planned, Ministry of Justice announces.
  
  Read more

• Ex-Dewey partner not 'naive' consumer in Barclays loan case

  10-06-2015 15:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Entertainment lawyer described as an 'unreliable witness' as he is ordered to repay a loan of $540,000. 
  
  Read more

• TTIP hits another hurdle

  10-06-2015 14:46 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  European parliament postpones vote on controversial EU-US trade deal amid flurry of amendments.
  
  Read more

• High-profile UK lawyer returns to corporate stage - The Global Legal Post

  10-06-2015 13:34
  The Global Legal Post
  High-profile UK lawyer returns to corporate stage
  The Global Legal Post
  Sam Laidlaw, the Macfarlanes-trained lawyer who was criticised for his luxurious lifestyle as he warned of possible energy blackouts while at the helm of the UK's leading energy business, is to build an oil and gas venture backed by private equity ...en meer »
  
  Read more

• Aftab Bahadur’s killing is not only tragic, it is perverse | Clive Stafford Smith

  10-06-2015 12:35
  
  Pakistan’s execution of an innocent man 22 years after his conviction is made even more sickening by the pardoning of his co-defendantAftab Bahadur was hanged at Central Jail Lahore (Kot Lakhpat), in the early hours of this morning. He was executed for a crime that took place on 5 September 1992, where a woman – Sabiha Bari – and her two sons were murdered. Ghulam Mustafa, a plumber with whom Aftab worked as an apprentice, was arrested early in the morning of 6 September 1992, and implicat
  
  Read more

• Aftab Bahadur’s death is not only tragic, it is perverse | Clive Stafford Smith

  10-06-2015 12:35
  
  Pakistan’s execution of an innocent man 22 years after his conviction is made even more sickening by the pardoning of his co-defendantAftab Bahadur was hanged at Central Jail Lahore (Kot Lakhpat), in the early hours of this morning. He was executed for a crime that took place on 5 September 1992, where a woman – Sabiha Bari – and her two sons were murdered. Ghulam Mustafa, a plumber with whom Aftab worked as an apprentice, was arrested early in the morning of 6 September 1992, and implicat
  
  Read more

• Prosecutors improperly withheld crucial evidence from trial of protesters

  10-06-2015 12:05
  
  Police and prosecutors are facing claims that they have systematically - and unfairly - concealed the operations of undercover officers from the trials of protesters
  Prosecutors have been ordered to pay the legal bill of 29 environmental protesters who were unjustly convicted. The Crown Prosecution Service has been forced to pay £43,000 after conceding that crucial evidence gathered by an undercover police officer was improperly withheld from the protesters’ trial. The money covers the l
  
  Read more

• Jean Charles de Menezes: European court to hear human rights challenge

  10-06-2015 09:08
  
  Relatives of Brazilian shot dead iby Met police marksmen on a London tube train in 2005 challenge decision not to bring charges over his deathThe family of Jean Charles de Menezes will challenge the decision not to bring charges over his death at the European court of human rights (ECHR) on Wednesday.Relatives of the Brazilian will take their case to the Strasbourg court’s grand chamber almost 10 years after he was mistaken for a suicide bomber and shot dead by police marksmen on a London tube
  
  Read more

• The rainbow revolution in the military – from dishonourable discharge to model employer

  10-06-2015 09:00
  
  UK armed forces banned gay personnel from serving until a European court of human rights ruling in 2000. Now they are recognised as among the best places to work for LGBT staff Clare Langham-Phillips is 47, and a chief technician in the RAF. She joined up when she was 19 and has served on the frontline in Northern Ireland, the Falklands and Afghanistan. “It’s all I ever wanted to do, but I think I also used the RAF to hide from my sexuality,” she says. “I had stronger feelings for women
  
  Read more

Follow @Lawyer_UKnws on Twitter!