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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
A self-employed painter and decorator has been given a £30 on-the-spot fine for smoking in his own van because it is classified as a workplace.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Office of Fair Trading has promoted Frances Barr, a veteran legal director, to the role of senior lawyer at the watchdog.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today’s judgment in the Max Mosley privacy case will confirm the media’s worst fears about publishing stories concerning the private lives of celebrities and other high profile individuals.
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
The case built by police investigating the murder of Jill Dando showed celebrity-obsessed Barry George "and no other" could have killed her, jurors have heard.
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PJC Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Using the drowsiness of summer, without any public debate nor legislative discussion, the French government is adopting the use of a police database aiming at a retrieving information on all kinds of activists involved in politics, unions, NGOs, religious groups, ... since the age of 13 (!) and without any limitations in the range of information collected, nor any time limit in keeping the datas. This...
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PJC Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
More than '79 000 adults' die in the EU per annum from the effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). This claim is the driver behind the proposals by the Commission to bring in a binding directive later this year to enforce smoking bans in workplaces. Given that the impact of such a directive will be considerable, both economically and socially, could the Commission please name three or four people...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
The defence of marital coercion used by Anne Darwin is extremely rare with only five reported cases in the last 75 years.
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PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Court of Appeal have overuled the EAT in Selvarajan v Wilmot. The case considers whether “unreasonable delay” in dealing with a step under the statutory procedures makes a dismissal automatically unfair where the statutory procedure is nonetheless completed (albeit with unreasonable delay - in Selvarajan the alleged unreasonable delay was 4 months in dealing with [...]
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is set to launch its second criminal prosecution this afternoon when it accuses a former partner at stockbroker Cazenove of insider trading.