“There is no dispute that the Pulitzer Board’s award to those media outlets was based on false and fabricated information that they published,” he blustered. “The continuing publication and recognition of the Prizes on the Board’s website is a distortion of fact and a personal defamation that will result in the filing of litigation if the Board cannot be persuaded to do the right thing on its own.”

And this week he’s back, posting on his Dear Diary page:

The Russia, Russia, Russia hoax has been totally debunked. The fake news media covered it incorrectly—reporting exactly the opposite of what actually happened.

Yet, the Pulitzer Board has not rescinded the prizes they awarded for reporting that was inaccurate, inept, and corrupt.

In order to restore the credibility of the Pulitzer Prizes, the Pulitzer Board should take away prizes from all who got it wrong.

Additionally, it would be

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Employment LawThe current case of McHugh v NCH Scotland 2006, concerned an allegation of incapacity discrimination. Employment law is the gathering of legal guidelines and rules that regulate relationships between employers and workers. Employment laws say when an employer can hire employees and when the workers can work. The legal guidelines cover what an employer must pay the employee for his or her work. They create minimum necessities for working circumstances for employees.

The British industrial revolution led to the introduction of employment laws in Britain. The reason for this was that, because of the introduction of industrialism and use of equipment for the primary time, staff were more and more being asked to work longer and longer hours. The average working day, prior to the revolution was between 11-14 hours, nevertheless this had risen, with some staff working as many as 16 hours a day.

The tribunal held that she …

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CAPITAL CASE


By Ellena Erskine

on Oct 19, 2022
at 9:45 pm

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to block the execution of an Oklahoma man with schizophrenia, rejecting a claim from his legal team that he does not understand the reason for his execution. Benjamin Cole is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

The court turned down Cole’s last-minute appeal in a brief order with no recorded dissents. Justice Neil Gorsuch did not participate in the decision. Gorsuch likely recused himself because he was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit when Cole sought relief from that court during earlier litigation.

Cole was convicted and sentenced in 2004 for killing his nine-month-old daughter. He was later diagnosed with schizophrenia. According to his defense team, Cole has been unable to interact with his lawyers for years, and prison staff have confirmed he

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Commentary

As voting in the midterm elections gets underway, crime and safety are the key issues. In cities across the country, the nightly news has endless scenes of store lootings, carjackings, and random attacks on innocents without consequences for the offenders.

Chicago stands out as a prime example in the current wave of lawlessness. Chicago Police Department (CPD) reports show murders in the first nine months of 2022 are up by 32 percent and all crimes are up by 22 percent since 2019. However, these numbers understate the actual number of crimes because, presumably, so many go unreported. Chicago’s police reports list only the most serious crime in any instance. Federal requirements will soon force the city to list all crimes.

In an emergency when seconds count, police recordings show that 911 calls often take two hours or more for police to respond. By that time, the damage is often

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After many years with the same ‘look’, Lexis Library has updated its interface to a new and more streamlined version – Lexis+ UK.   From Thursday 15th September, when you go onto Lexis, this new platform will be ‘live’ and the old version will no longer be available.

Like with most new platforms,  the best way to learn is to go on and have a look around.  However to help with the basics, we have put a few pointers below.  We have also produced a 15 minute video to go through things in more detail for those that prefer to see it demonstrated rather than static screen shots.  It can be found  on the Law Bod 4 Students Canvas page, under Panopto Recordings here https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/courses/169355 or if you cannot access that site then it is also on YouTube here https://youtu.be/dcqnJ7yLIZs  (please note that we are still working on the closed captions

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