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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Michael Mansfield takes on case of man found guilty of murdering elderly woman in Suffolk A man who claims he was wrongly convicted of murdering an elderly woman eight years ago is to be represented by one of the country's leading defence barristers at the court of appeal. Lawyer Michael Mansfield, who has previously championed the cases of the Birmingham Six, Barry George and the family of Stephen...
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LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Omar Puente (Jazz Café, London Jazz Festival, November 17th, review by Luke Pinkstone) Violinist Omar Puente describes himself as “a classical musician whose heart beats with a Cuban rhythm, whose soul is African and whose home is Yorkshire”. Wherever it hails from, his humour, his deep love of music, broad smile and gentle pitter-patter to the tightly locked grooves are contagious....
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The ARCH Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
We’ve often criticised the ‘Every Child Matters’ agenda on the basis that, as well as being an outrageous intrusion into children’s and families’ privacy, it sets up a dangerous confusion between child protection and more general child welfare concerns. In today’s Guardian, an interesting comment piece points out the effects of ECM on education: The French [...]...
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The ARCH Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Some confirmation of something those of us working on DNA issues have long suspected: Police officers in England and Wales have made arrests just to get people on to the DNA database, a retired police superintendent has claimed. He told the Human Genetics Commission (HGC) this was the “norm”. It wants new guidance for police to [...]
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The Financial Services Authority (FSA), the City watchdog, has fined Nomura £1.75 million for “extremely serious” systems and controls failings in the Japanese bank’s equity derivatives business.
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PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
This case at the EAT is an example of the sort of Tribunal decision that could give rise to a successful appeal on the basis that the reasons of the Tribunal weren’t expressed sufficiently. Tribunals must give the parties sufficient reasons for them to understand why they won or lost. In this case, those reasons [...]
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PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
I did a blog a while ago on a young artist, Kieron Williamson, from Holt in Norfolk. Now this man has come to light and he lives a stone’s throw from Kieron in Briston. His talent is even more exceptional as he is a thalidomide victim and has no arms, using just his right foot to [...]
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PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
They say a Mother’s love has no bounds. This was surely true for one baby squirrel as you will see by the pictures in this article posted in the Daily Mail.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire, accused Government investigators of violating his constitutional rights during its investigation of an insider trading ring that netted up to $53 billion.$
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PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
An ITV newsreader has been accused of imitating Sir Trevor McDonald by Lisa Aziz, the first Asian news presenter. She claims that Steve Scott regularly imitated the Afro-Caribbean newsreader’s accent during rehearsals. He is also alleged to have imitated Pakistani and Irish accents and the accent of Alex Beresford, the black ITV weatherman. ITV have launched [...]
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PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
We at PJH Law have dealt with serial litigants, to our knowledge, on only a number of occasions. However, solicitors nationally are aware of the increasing numbers of false claims being made by serial litigants in a bid to earn some “easy money” and, quite frankly, it would appear to pass the time of day. One solicitor has [...]
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PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Christmas seems to come around faster year on year. We are now at the end of November with thirty two days to go until Christmas Day itself!! Thousands of businesses tend to close their doors over the festive period and re-open in the New Year allowing employees to enjoy a long, and usually welcome, break. However, has anyone given [...]
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Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Antwerp: Demonstrations for equal opportunities at work, school Both demonstrations did not draw a big crowd. ---------- About forty Muslims, mostly women, from the "Vrije Keuze" group (Free choice), protested in Antwerp Sunday last week. They demanded equal opportunities in education and the job-market. Mina Chebaa started with a group of parents who protested against the headscarf ban in...
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Binary Law (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here’s another of my beefs: publishing PDF on the web is lazy, bad practice. PDF - portable document format - what does that mean? It means, here’s what you want to print … in a file. It’s a portable print format; not a native web document format and not an open document format. It looks pretty, [...]
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