Link: The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 18) Order 2018
Source: Legislation .gov.uk
Press release: Call to save judge’s copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover used in famous obscenity trial
Arts Minister Michael Ellis has ordered a temporary export bar on the copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by judge during obscenity trial
Link: Press release: Call to save judge’s copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover used in famous obscenity trial
Source: Gov Press Releases
Press release: Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Russia – January 2020
Ms Deborah Bronnert CMG has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Russian Federation.
Link: Press release: Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Russia – January 2020
Source: Gov Press Releases
Press release: £105 million economic package for the North West
The UK Government announces £105 million economic package for Derry-Londonderry region.
Link: Press release: £105 million economic package for the North West
Source: Gov Press Releases
Government statement on Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission
Statement from Health Secretary
Link: Government statement on Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission
Source: Parliamentary News
Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay MP updates Committee on Brexit
EU Select Committee takes evidence at 11.10am on 15 May 2019
Link: Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay MP updates Committee on Brexit
Source: Parliamentary News
Press release: £28,000 penalty for Nottinghamshire farming companies who caused serious pollution
The pollution impacted groundwater and killed fish
Link: Press release: £28,000 penalty for Nottinghamshire farming companies who caused serious pollution
Source: Environment Agency
The Trade Remedies (Reconsideration and Appeals) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
These Regulations provide for the reconsideration of decisions taken by the Trade Remedies Authority (TRA), when established, under Schedules 4 and 5 to the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 (“the Act”), the Trade Remedies (Dumping and Subsidisation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (“the Dumping and Subsidisation Regulations”) and the Trade Remedies (Increase in Imports Causing Serious Injury to UK Producers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (“the Safeguards Regulations”). They also provide for decisions made by the TRA and the Secretary of State under such legislation to be appealed to the Upper Tribunal. The TRA itself will be established by the Trade Bill when it receives Royal Assent.
Link: The Trade Remedies (Reconsideration and Appeals) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Source: Legislation .gov.uk
Press release: Dame Vera Baird appointed as new Victims’ Commissioner
Dame Vera Baird has been appointed the new Victims’ Commissioner and will take over the role from Baroness Newlove in mid-June 2019.
Link: Press release: Dame Vera Baird appointed as new Victims’ Commissioner
Source: Gov Press Releases
The Road Traffic Offenders (Prescribed Devices) Order 2019
This Order prescribes a type of device for the purposes of section 20 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (c.53) (speeding offences etc: admissibility of certain evidence). Section 20 provides for the admissibility of evidence in relation to certain road traffic offences where that evidence is produced in the form of a record from a prescribed device and where that record is accompanied by or contains a certificate as to the circumstances of its production which has been signed by a constable or by a person authorised by or on behalf of the chief officer of police for the police area in which the offence is alleged to have been committed. Section 20(4) provides that the device must be approved by the Secretary of State and any conditions to which the approval is subject must be satisfied if the record produced or measurement made by the device is to be admissible as evidence of a fact relevant to proceedings for an offence to which section 20 applies.
Link: The Road Traffic Offenders (Prescribed Devices) Order 2019
Source: Legislation .gov.uk