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| The Royal Mail has warned staff not to accept Christmas tips or gifts valued at more than £30 for fear of bribery charges. The organisation’s My Royal Mail website, under the heading Christmas and the Bribery Act, said: “It’s the season of goodwill. But it’s important to be careful about accepting gifts so you don’t fall foul of the Bribery Act.” It said Christmas tips were allowed but should never be accepted in return for favours. “A bribe is not just about money, it should be any gift, hospitality or favour,” according to the website. | |
| The Law | The Sentinel - December 5 2011 |
| A high Court Judge’s ruling that a brain-damaged, minimally conscious woman should not be allowed to die was hailed as a landmark decision. Mr Justice Baker concluded that life-supporting treatment should not be withdrawn from the 52-year-old former hairdresser and said there was dignity in the life of a disabled person who was “well cared for and kept comfortable”. Yogi Amin, a partner with law firm Irwin Mitchell, said the ruling was a “landmark” and the law on caring for the disabled had been “clarified”. | |
| The Law | The Sentinel September 29 2011 |
| France upheld the traditional definition of marriage in June. France’s law was previously challenged by a lesbian couple, who were calling for same-sex marriage so that they could have the inheritance and joint custody rights reserved for married couples. In January, the Constitutional Council ruled in favour of the traditional definition of marriage, maintaining that it did not breach the French constitution. The court said it was up to parliament to decide whether to change the law, but members of the lower house in June voted 293 to 222 in favour of traditional marriage. | |
| The Law | Evangelicals Now August 2011 |
| The Pro-Life Alliance has called for a redoubling of efforts to increase public awareness of the dangers of changing the law on assisted suicide. As pro-euthanasia activists continue to aggressively pursue their agenda, Dominica Roberts of the Pro-life Alliance told The Universe: “It is important that British pro-life groups should not just react to initiatives by pro-death groups, but keep up a continual campaign to bring before the public the truth of the dangers of changing the law.” Mrs Roberts’ call followed a legal ruling which has protected a woman’s anonymity as she attempts to have the law on euthanasia changed. The woman is seeking to have food, fluids and medical treatment withdrawn from her 43-year-old brain-damaged daughter. The case presents a new challenge to the law. Unlike the Tony Bland case, which allowed the withdrawal of food and fluid for the first time, the woman’s daughter is not in a “persistent vegetative state” but in a “minimally conscious state”. | |
| The Law | The Universe May 22 2011 |
| A former Tory peer is facing jail after being found guilty of fraudulently claiming nearly £14,000. Lord Hanningfield, aged 70, joins four ex-MPs and a fellow member of the Lords already convicted of dishonestly obtaining thousands from the taxpayer by making false claims for allowances. The Jury of nine women and three men took just four hours to find him guilty of six counts of false accounting. Lord Hanningfield claimed for overnight stays in London when he was not in the capital. | |
| The Law | The Sentinel May 27 2011 |
| In 2010/11 437 complaints were made against Staffordshire Police – the equivalent of 117 for every 1,000 officers and staff members. This is up slightly from 2009/10 when 422 complaints were lodged against the force. 156 of the complaints were against officers working in Stoke-on-Trent division, while 61 related to North Staffordshire. The city-based complaints included 43 for neglect, 46 for assault and 35 for not being civil. In North Staffordshire there were 20 complaints for neglect, 19 for assault and 13 for a lack of civility. It is not known how many complaints were upheld. | |
| The Law | The Sentinel April 28, 2011 |
| Human rights rulings by judges have led to a tripling in the number of suspected sham weddings. The courts have repeatedly weakened rules designed to prevent non-EU immigrants from marrying solely to remain in the UK. In four years, cases have risen from 282 annually to 934 - or 18 every week. And the Human Rights Act has left the Home Office with no option but to scrap all remaining legal safeguards against fake ceremonies within weeks. | |
| The Law | Daily Mail 24th March 2011 |
| The first baby with three biological parents could be conceived next year after the Government announced a major review of Britain's fertility laws. The move would allow doctors to use a revolutionary IVF technique that prevents incurable, deadly genetic illnesses being passed down from mothers to their children. Babies created with the therapy - called three-parent IVF - would inherit 98 per cent of their DNA from their 'real' parents. The rest would come from a female donor. The scientists say the donor genes would not alter the children's appearance or personality, but would stop them dying from painful diseases of the heart, liver and brain. But the revelation has horrified embryo campaigners who accused doctors of 'meddling around with the delicate building blocks of life'. It also raises questions about parental rights and whether the donor parent would have any say in the upbringing of a child. | |
| The Law | Mail on Sunday March 12th 2011 |
| Actor Sir Patrick Stewart, author Ian McEwan and former England cricketer Chris Broad have pledged their support to a campaign calling for a change in the law on assisted dying in the UK. Dignity in Dying aims to legalise the choice of assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults. Broad, whose wife Michelle had motor neurone disease, said it was awful that the law would not allow loved ones to be with her when she ended her life after her suffering became unbearable | |
| The Law | The Sentinel, February 21, 2011 |
| Ministers are to set out plans to make changes to the law which could enable same-sex couples to “marry” in church. The Sunday Telegraph reported that Lynne Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat Equalities Minister, is set to publish proposals to lift the ban on civil partnership ceremonies being held in places of worship. Such ceremonies could also be permitted to include for the first time religious elements which are currently banned under existing legislation. | |
| The Law | The Sentinel, February 14, 2011 |
| A controversial attempt by homosexual activists to fundamentally redefine the nature of marriage through the European Court of human Rights began on December 23. The campaign saw four heterosexual couples apply for civil partnership licences and four same-sex couples apply for marriage licences, fully aware that their applications would be declined. They claim this is a breech of their human rights. | |
| The Law | Evangelical's Now February 2011 |
| Protesters held a march in London calling for Pakistan to repeal its blasphemy laws. During the visit to Britain of President Asif Ali Zardari the marchers, led by the British Pakistani Christian Association and supported by the South Asian Forum of Evangelical Alliance, handed in petitions at the Pakistan High Commission and Downing Street to demand that action be taken to stop the laws, which they believe make religious minorities vulnerable to persecution. | |
| The Law | ‘Salvationist’ (The War Cry) – August 14, 2010 |
| An Oxford congregation on June 30 lost its appeal at Oxford Magistrates Court to overturn the variation of a license to run a lap dancing club just 50 yards from their church. | |
| The Law | ‘Evangelicals Now’ – August, 2010 |
| Plans to put locally-elected police and crime commissioners in charge of multi-million pound force budgets will hand power back to the public, Home Secretary Theresa May said yesterday. She said new police and camera panels will also be introduced in a “robust overview role”. The Home Secretary also raised the prospect of the public taking part in joint patrols with the police, while wanting an increase in the number of special constables back to their peak of 67,000 in the 1950’s, from around 15,000 now. | |
| The Law | ‘The Sentinel’ – July 27, 2010 |
| Reforms to our legal system are necessary to protect Christians from persecution, contend church leaders including the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey. Lord Carey is urging the Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger, and other senior judges to stand down from future Court of Appeal hearings involving cases of religious discrimination because of a perceived bias by judges against Christianity. | |
| The Law | Salvationist, 24 April 2010 |
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