http://www.lccsa.org.uk/ Informing London's criminal solicitors webmaster@lccsa.org.uk (Jim Meyer) LCCSA-NEWS-18761 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18761 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General "This statement is made by the Crown Prosecution Service in the interests of transparency and accountability to explain the decisions reached in the c LCCSA-NEWS-18760 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18760 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General So far the government has made two concessions on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill ('the Legal Aid Bill'), currently in the committee stage of the House of Lords. It seems more concessions might be on the way before the bill is approved. Speaking at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum yesterday, Justice Minister Jonathan Djanogly said the government was considering the amendments which had been suggested so far by peers. When questioned by LAG on whether the government was willing to reconsider the definition of domestic violence contained in the bill, he said that this was 'in the mix at the moment' and that while he believed that the current definition covered the same points as that of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), 'if there is a way of making people happy on this issue we will do it'. Campaign organisations including the Women's Institute and LAG have argued that the ACPO definition should be included in the bill. ACPO defines domestic violence as, '... any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse (psychological, physical, sexual, financial or emotional) between adults ... who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender or sexuality'. The bill currently uses a different definition referring to physical or mental abuse which includes sexual abuse and: ' ... abuse in the form of violence, neglect, maltreatment and exploitation'. The ACPO definition is wider and some experts believe that the government might be forced to accept this definition by the courts if the current definition was approved without amendment. LAG believes the government might be taking the view that it should bow to the inevitable and amend it, especially as the Home Office is currently engaged in a consultation process on adopting a wider definition of domestic violence. The detailed criteria which have to be met in domestic violence cases to qualify for legal aid have not been included in the bill. This is of great significance in ensuring victims get the help they need. Details of this will follow in secondary legislation. In the debate on the bill, Baroness Butler-Sloss, a former senior family judge, asked for the criteria to be published before the report stage so that peers can scrutinise them. Jonathan Djanogly was more evasive when questioned by LAG on whether the government would concede over the amendment to reinstate legal aid for personal injury cases involving children, a move which is supported by Lord Tebbit and Lord Newton, the former Conservative Cabinet ministers. The minister said this is 'at the margins of what [the government is] looking at'. In response to a question from Cristina Sarb, a policy officer at the charity Scope, he said that the government was not considering bringing welfare benefits back into the scope of the legal aid system. Earlier in the meeting Roger Smith, director of Justice, had lambasted the government over its failure to recognise the danger of not having an independent appeals system over decisions on entitlement to legal aid: 'It's a godsend to a litigator,' to be able to argue bias in the process for cases against the government, he warned. Roger Smith also observed that the government's decision to cut legal aid was a political choice and if the cuts went ahead he predicted it would lead to 'the regeneration of the kind of movement we had in the 1970s,' which was originally responsible for widening access to civil justice. The government has given way on means-testing advice in police stations and included young people between the ages of 16-25 in the category of people able to claim legal aid for special educational needs cases. LAG believes that we need to keep the pressure on the government to win more concessions on the bill. Image: LAG: Jonathan Djanogly speaking at the event yesterday See the ">report report LAG commissioned from the Women's Institute and other news on the legal aid bill. LCCSA-NEWS-18759 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18759 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The events that triggered yesterday's announcement that Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce faced charges date back to March 2003, but were not set in train until an article in The Sunday Times last May. LCCSA-NEWS-18758 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18758 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The prevalence of speed cameras has fuelled a trade in people paying others to take their penalty points, a specialist road traffic lawyer has said. LCCSA-NEWS-18755 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18755 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Criminals who trade in illegal firearms will face severe sentences, senior judges warned today, as they doubled the jail term on a man caught by police with a loaded revolver. LCCSA-NEWS-18754 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18754 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The chancellor has now set out his detailed proposals for financial services regulatory reform. These seek to address three substantial concerns which became clear in the wake of the banking crisis: LCCSA-NEWS-18750 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18750 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General A major factor in why US prisons are overflowing is the highly profitable privatised industry that has an incentive to fill them LCCSA-NEWS-18749 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18749 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Keir Starmer, the director for public prosecutions, the decision to bring criminal charges against Chris Huhne and his former wife Vicky Pryce LCCSA-NEWS-18748 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18748 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Another departure of a senior Metropolitan police figure LCCSA-NEWS-18746 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18746 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The worldwide rise in rhino poaching is forcing zoos and safari parks in Britain to adopt costly security measures LCCSA-NEWS-18745 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18745 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Sam Lowe jailed for 39 months for sending BlackBerry message telling 160 contacts to 'kick off' in Nottingham LCCSA-NEWS-18743 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18743 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Clarification on when you can claim the evidence provision fee LCCSA-NEWS-18742 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18742 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Version 9 CDS14, 15 and 15C accepted if dated from 1 Feb LCCSA-NEWS-18741 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18741 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General LSC to enforce Income Contribution Orders if client is in arrears when case ends LCCSA-NEWS-18740 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18740 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Advice to avoid forms being rejected LCCSA-NEWS-18735 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18735 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Hundreds of thousands of ex-offenders are to have the "slate wiped clean" under plans announced yesterday to reduce the time in which they must tell employers about their criminal past. LCCSA-NEWS-18734 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18734 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General A High Court judge criticised the Crown Prosecution Service yesterday for failing to protect a mother of two from an obsessive stalker because of concern over his human rights. LCCSA-NEWS-18732 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18732 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Law centres will close, leaving 'many thousands' of the poor and marginalised without access to justice if the government's legal aid cuts are implemented, peers have warned. LCCSA-NEWS-18729 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18729 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Justice secretary wants to dramatically reduce the length of time ex-offenders must declare their convictions LCCSA-NEWS-18728 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18728 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Regional reporter David Blackmore has just had one of those moments all reporters dream about - being witness to a news story. LCCSA-NEWS-18726 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18726 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Craig Roy was plagued by guilt after cheating on his boyfriend with his victim, 16-year-old Jack Frew, court heard LCCSA-NEWS-18725 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18725 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Commons home affairs select committee to investigate after phone-hacking scandal throws light on 'shady world' LCCSA-NEWS-18724 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18724 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Douglas Binet has been jailed for 20 years for murdering his friend Anthony Whitefield and dismembering his body LCCSA-NEWS-18723 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18723 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Julia Rawlinson admits lying and using fake degrees and teaching certificates to gain employment with exam board LCCSA-NEWS-18720 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18720 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Our trafficking policies are letting down the most vulnerable in society. We need a new approach LCCSA-NEWS-18719 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18719 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The letter from the Committee for Ritual Abuse (23 January) appears to be conflate two types of claim, one presumably based on solid evidence, the other on extremely dubious evidence. There is little reason to doubt that within certain communities the use of exorcism rituals against children is on the rise, given recent tragic court cases. The letter goes on, however, to bemoan the fact that claims of ritual abuse involving white middle-class children and adults are not taken seriously. The latter are not taken seriously because there is no convincing forensic evidence to support them. Instead they are based upon dubious techniques for "recovering memories" the same techniques used to "recover" memories of alien abductions and past lives. Furthermore, the former involve misguided beliefs of religious fundamentalists that a child is possessed, in contrast to the latter "recovered" memories, in which the alleged perpetrator is said to be a member of a Satanic cult. The two should not be confused. Professor Chris French Goldsmiths, University of London LCCSA-NEWS-18718 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18718 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Tobacco confiscations also on the rise, prompting concern that focus is moving away from counterfeit clothing and electronic goods LCCSA-NEWS-18717 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18717 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:00:00 GMT Case law An employment judge had been correct to find that a civilian employee of the police was entitled to bring a claim against the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis in respect of acts, said to constitute sex discrimination, which had been carried out by her line manager, who was an officer of the City of London Police. LCCSA-NEWS-18716 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18716 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Courts across England and Wales have started using a new interpreter service which is expected to save taxpayers more than (GBP) 18m a year. LCCSA-NEWS-18715 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18715 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The following was printed in the Guardian on Tuesday 31 January 2012. • A story reported that the Office for National Statistics had, to date, passed LCCSA-NEWS-18714 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18714 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The review by HMIC recognises that undercover officers play a critical role gathering evidence and intelligence to protect communities from harm. It is one of the most challenging areas of operational activity undertaken by the police service LCCSA-NEWS-18711 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18711 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Juror Theodora Dallas was convicted of contempt of court last week for internet research into the previous court appearances of the defendant whose case she was trying and telling fellow jurors about her findings. The trial in which she was a jury member had to be restarted before a fresh jury. LCCSA-NEWS-18695 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18695 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT Case law Public order - Freedom of association and assembly - Defendant protestors setting up camp outside St Paul's Cathedral LCCSA-NEWS-18694 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18694 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT Case law Money had and received - Defence - Claimants being victims of fraud by third party LCCSA-NEWS-18683 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18683 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Last week I gave the President's Oxford lecture at the Saïd Business School. It was a great privilege to be able to address a very distinguished audience on the long-term future of our profession. I felt compelled to ask what implications the freedom of barristers and solicitors to practise together in partnership, under the new regulatory regime, might have for the future development of these two great, separate pillars of the English and Welsh legal system. LCCSA-NEWS-18681 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18681 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Evidence of poor morale among staff at the Ministry of Justice has emerged from the civil service's annual 'people ­survey'. Among its findings is that staff at the ministry and its agencies have no confidence in decisions made by senior managers. LCCSA-NEWS-18679 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18679 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The Law Society vice-president has outlined initiatives to bolster access to justice following the government's proposed legal aid reforms - but stressed that Chancery Lane has not given up its opposition to the cuts. LCCSA-NEWS-18675 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18675 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Barristers and solicitors should share most of their training, the chair of the Bar Standards Board has proposed. LCCSA-NEWS-18672 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18672 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Palestinian minors have committed atrocities but Israel's military justice system respects their rights in custody LCCSA-NEWS-18671 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18671 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Men plead guilty to planning bombings of targets including stock exchange, US embassy and Boris Johnson's home LCCSA-NEWS-18670 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18670 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General MP Khalid Mahmood asks why Lithuanian man accused of killing Avtar and Carole Kolar was allowed into UK LCCSA-NEWS-18668 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18668 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Marcus Foley made thousands of pounds clamping cars after stealing drivers' pay-and-display tickets in Birmingham LCCSA-NEWS-18666 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18666 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Attorney general decides not to refer jail sentences of Gary Dobson and David Norris to court of appeal LCCSA-NEWS-18665 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18665 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The issue must be seen in the context of violence against women and the inequality found throughout society LCCSA-NEWS-18663 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18663 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Dominic Grieve QC declines to refer sentences handed to Gary Dobson and David Norris to court of appeal LCCSA-NEWS-18661 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18661 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Jasper Taruvinga, who police suspect killed Rudo Mawere and stuffed her body into a travel bag, found dead in Kent woods LCCSA-NEWS-18660 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18660 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Northern city reports 20% more incidents than the capital, despite having a Jewish population a fraction of the size LCCSA-NEWS-18658 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18658 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT Case law An individual who was the freeholder of a matrimonial property, from which he had not been formally excluded and which was occupied by his estranged wife, was not a protected intending occupier under the Criminal Law Act 1977 s.12A, could not avail himself of a defence under s.6(1A) of the Act, and could be convicted of the use of violence to gain entry to a property whose front door he had damaged. LCCSA-NEWS-18657 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18657 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:00:00 GMT Case law There was no legal inhibition against the imposition of a determinate sentence expressed to commence upon the expiry of a minimum term specified under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 s.269. LCCSA-NEWS-18656 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18656 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The Supreme Court has granted permission to Julian Assange to appeal and a hearing has been scheduled for two days, beginning on 1 February 2012. His LCCSA-NEWS-18655 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18655 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General On April 9, 2004, special agent Lee Paige of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was giving an educational presentation to about 50 parents and children at a community centre in Orlando, Florida. LCCSA-NEWS-18653 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18653 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Four hundred and twenty one days after his arrest in London, Julian Assange's fate will be decided by seven Supreme Court judges at a hearing that starts today. LCCSA-NEWS-18649 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18649 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The Consortium of Expert Witnesses to the Family Courts has appealed to solicitors for feedback on the effect of fee cuts. The group believes there are already difficulties in obtaining access to qualified experts and has objected to lower rates of pay in London compared with the rest of the country. LCCSA-NEWS-18646 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18646 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The justice secretary's decision to ban ex-offenders from claiming compensation for crimes against them is discriminatory LCCSA-NEWS-18645 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18645 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Rimvydas Liorancas, charged with the murders of Avtar and Carole Kolar, found dead at Woodhill prison LCCSA-NEWS-18642 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18642 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Programme used in Boston and Glasgow, which makes gang members listen to bereaved parents, is launched in London LCCSA-NEWS-18641 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18641 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Police chiefs to publish report into undercover policing of protest groups on Thursday LCCSA-NEWS-18639 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18639 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General With its value at a record high, gold has never been more attractive to thieves. Now burglars with metal detectors are targeting the homes of British Asian families for their collections of high-quality 'Indian gold' jewellery LCCSA-NEWS-18638 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18638 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT Procedure LCCSA-NEWS-18637 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18637 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The capital's Chief Crown Prosecutor is calling for a greater debate on ways in which society can challenge, combat and dispel the assumptions and myt LCCSA-NEWS-18636 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18636 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The upgrade of the existing www.police.uk website announced today will provide the public with even greater access to important information about crimes occurring in their local area, including crimes at or near points of interest, such as shopping areas, airports, railway stations, parking areas and night clubs LCCSA-NEWS-18635 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18635 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Sir Mark Allen, former director of counter-terrorism at MI6, was served with the papers at his London flat by representatives of Abdel Hakim Belhaj, Tripoli's military commander, and another Libyan, Sami al-Saadi. Both men were imprisoned and tortured after being forcibly returned to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime in 2004 with apparent British connivance. LCCSA-NEWS-18629 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18629 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The government has abandoned its controversial plan to pave the way for the means-testing of legal advice for suspects detained in police stations. LCCSA-NEWS-18628 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18628 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Applications to study law at UK universities and colleges have fallen sharply, figures released today show - but not as sharply as applications for university places overall. LCCSA-NEWS-18625 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18625 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General As privatisation forges ahead, Rachel Williams asks whether the pursuit of profit in prison education is failing inmates who most need to learn LCCSA-NEWS-18623 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18623 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Ken Clarke can already refuse victims compensation for violent crimes if they are of bad character. Now he wants to ban anyone with an unspent conviction from applying LCCSA-NEWS-18622 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18622 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Northern Ireland court trying Brendan McConville for murder of police officer told of 'one in a billion chance' that DNA was not his LCCSA-NEWS-18620 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18620 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Gary Dobson starts appeal procedure against murder conviction, David Norris also expected to appeal but has yet to lodge papers LCCSA-NEWS-18619 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18619 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General A retrial has been ordered after the trial of Achilleas Kallakis accused of using forged paperwork to trick banks into lending (GBP) 750m collapsed after four months LCCSA-NEWS-18618 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18618 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Vikram Dodd: The video was undoubtedly dramatic, and it could not have failed to have at least some effect on the jury LCCSA-NEWS-18575 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18575 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Overall, the decisions strike a balance between the need to achieve savings given the national economic situation and the financial pressures facing individual police officers LCCSA-NEWS-18574 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18574 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Australian firm Slater & Gordon today announced the acquisition of top 100 UK firm Russell Jones & Walker for (GBP) 53.8m. LCCSA-NEWS-18573 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18573 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The Solicitors Regulation Authority has apologised for delays to online practising certificate renewal as it starts to clear the backlog of applications. LCCSA-NEWS-18572 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18572 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Kweku Adoboli faces trial for allegedly losing record sum while working for Swiss banking giant in London LCCSA-NEWS-18568 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18568 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT Case law Where, for the purposes of the partial defence to murder of loss of self-control, such loss of self-control was triggered by sexual infidelity that could not, on its own, qualify as a trigger for the purposes of the defence. However, where the defendant relied on an admissible trigger for which sexual infidelity was said to provide an appropriate context for evaluating whether the trigger relied on was a qualifying trigger for the purposes of the statutory provisions, the prohibition on sexual infidelity as a trigger did not operate to exclude it. LCCSA-NEWS-18566 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18566 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General The law on smacking in is nothing if not confusing. For centuries hitting or beating a child was permissible under "reasonable chastisement". LCCSA-NEWS-18565 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18565 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Boris Johnson has called on the Government to give parents explicit advice about when they can smack their children, after a Labour MP called for the laws to be relaxed. LCCSA-NEWS-18564 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18564 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General For some, economic austerity is a time for tightening the purse strings and battling twice as hard for survival. But for many, it is an excuse to resort to fraud — and, increasingly, on a grand scale. LCCSA-NEWS-18562 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18562 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General Alison Saunders of the Crown Prosecution Service talks about the Lawrence case and why a debate on rape is needed LCCSA-NEWS-18559 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18559 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT General A former prison governor's indictment of life inside Britain's jails deserves to be widely read LCCSA-NEWS-18136 http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?mid=71&ItemID=18136 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT Procedure Help the CPR Committee put together proposals in relation to the provision of initial details of a case (advance information) between charge and the first appearance for defendants who are released on bail.