“Overcrowding, reoffending, and mandatory sentencing have created prisons that are ineffective and expensive, a charity warns.”
The Independent on Sunday, 15th November 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A parliamentary inquiry into phone hacking by tabloid journalists may have been seriously misled, it emerged yesterday when lawyers acting for a Scotland Yard detective denied that he had ever claimed that messages to 6,000 people had been intercepted.”
The Independent, 16th November 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Proposals to be contained in the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday pave the way for documents from expert witnesses in sensitive family matters such as child protection or adoption cases to be made public.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th November 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The chair of the Press Complaints Commission has defended its role as an independent watchdog and attacked so-called ‘super-injunctions’ to keep legal action against the press secret.”
The Observer, 15th November 2009
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/
“The NHS medical records system is under scrutiny after a nurse falsely recorded, in retrospect, that she had given a potentially life-saving medication to a female prisoner who later hanged herself.”
The Guardian, 16th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jack Straw is blaming magistrates for clogging up the Crown Court by sending thousands of trivial cases that they could deal with themselves.”
The Times, 16th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Patients undergoing cosmetic surgery are at the mercy of an ‘unregulated mess’ of an industry that puts marketing before safety with little risk of sanction, leading doctors warn today.”
The Times, 16th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“British National Party leaders have voted ‘overwhelmingly’ to ballot members on changing its constitution to allow non-white members to join.”
BBC News, 14th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A sport historian and ex-head teacher has been jailed for five and a half years for sexually abusing two girls.”
BBC News, 13th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A ‘devious’ dairy worker has been jailed for life for the murder of a woman whose body he buried in a shallow grave on farmland.”
BBC News, 13th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“New guidance on the interpretation of the laws surrounding assisted suicide pose ‘serious dangers for public safety’, according to a group of influential lawyers, peers and former judges.”
The Times, 14th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Britain is punishing its children with custody orders and Asbos, failing to keep them safe and systematically breaching the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, a major report has found.”
The Observer, 15th November 2009
Source: www.http://observer.guardian.co.uk/
“An Iraqi cleaner who claims that she was sexually harassed at the British Embassy and at the ambassador’s residence in Baghdad is taking the Government to court over its alleged failure to investigate her complaints.”
The Times, 16th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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