“Scores of Britain’s most dangerous criminals have walked out of open prisons over the past year, official statistics disclosed yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Five children have been placed in adult prisons, breaking an international treaty on children’s rights, it has emerged. The Youth Justice minister, Jeremy Wright, admitted the under-18s had been transferred from youth custody to adult prisons in 2011, in answer to a parliamentary question earlier this month.”
The Independent, 27th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Most women prisoners have committed non-violent crimes. On being released, many want to start new lives but get little or no support. In 2008, that was all supposed to change. Yet today there is anger and frustration at lack of action, and the destructive potential of cutbacks.”
The Guardian, 27th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“One in four violent criminals are avoiding court as magistrates warned the excessive use of cautions by police has ‘got out of hand’.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“For months, the Leveson Inquiry dominated the news, as a succession of high-profile witnesses gave evidence – actors Hugh Grant and Sienna Miller, singer Charlotte Church; the parents of Milly Dowler and Madeleine McCann; editors, proprietors, police chiefs, politicians.”
BBC News, 27th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Introductory tenancies require a notice under s.128 Housing Act 1996 to be served before possession proceedings. That notice shall inform the tenant of his right to request a review of the landlord’s decision to seek an order for possession and of the time within which such a request must be made. [s.128(6)]”
NearlyLegal, 26th January 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has urged the legal profession to simplify its complaints procedures, following the publication of research showing that only one in eight dissatisfied customers goes on to make a formal complaint.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 28th January 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Hundreds of British women continue to be wrongly imprisoned, according to a study that condemns the government for not complying with international standards set by the United Nations on treatment of female inmates.”
The Guardian, 27th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The true scale of the problem posed by ‘lawless bailiffs’ is revealed as shocking figures show a sharp rise in complaints about their behaviour since the start of the banking crisis.”
The Guardian, 27th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The fight to defend legal professional privilege looks set to continue, despite last week’s landmark victory for the profession in the Supreme Court. Parliament was urged to consider extending the scope of LPP in the wake of the judgment by the 140,000-member Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 28th January 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A Sudanese paedophile who was part of a group of immigrants who lured schoolgirls to a house for sex cannot be deported because he is a member of a ‘persecuted tribe’, it was disclosed at the High Court yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Google is facing a fresh privacy battle in the UK over its alleged secret tracking of the internet habits of millions of iPhone users.”
The Guardian, 27th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Reports that some companies involved in solar energy are pursuing claims for damages against the Government are the ‘inevitable consequence of its hitherto confused’ approach to subsidies, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“An MP’s son who joined an online ‘club’ of perverts who shared sickening images of child abuse has been handed a suspended jail term.”
The Independent, 24th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two men who carried out cyber attacks for the Anonymous hacking group have been jailed.”
BBC News, 24th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Google, Facebook and Twitter’s decision to establish their European bases in Dublin has opened the internet giants up to EU defamation and privacy laws like never before, a libel lawyer has warned.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Supreme Court has ruled that legal advice privilege should only apply to advice given by a member of the legal profession; that this is what the common law has always meant, and that any wider interpretation would lead to uncertainty. Two strong dissents do not find any principled underpinning for the restriction of the privilege to advice from solicitors or barristers.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The government is considering how to curb repetitive and overly expensive Freedom of Information requests, a justice minister has said.”
BBC News, 24th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Extending secret courts to ordinary civil justice cases would see the UK ‘stoop to the level of repressive regimes’, the Law Society warns today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th January 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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