“The Crown Prosecution Service has agreed to pay £16,000 compensation to a woman over the handling of a serious sexual assault allegation, it was reported today.”
The Independent, 20th September 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A former altar boy was found not guilty at his re-trial today of murdering an elderly vicar he accused of sexually abusing him.”
The Independent, 17th September 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man who caused a crash that killed an Oxfordshire man, then drove from the scene and later lied to police, has begun a five-year jail term.”
BBC News, 17th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Essex Police failed to investigate sexual assaults because the victim was not believed due to her history of mental illness, a watchdog has said.”
BBC News, 17th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Broadmoor patient who confessed to killing two women in East Sussex in 1998 and eating flesh from one of them has been jailed for at least 21 years.”
BBC News, 17th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man was jailed today for raping a legal worker after they had been drinking and she fell asleep.”
The Independent, 17th September 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A violent thug who murdered a woman and her teenage daughter after starting a devastating fire at their seaside home was jailed for life today.”
The Independent, 17th September 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A trainee quantity surveyor who used a hidden camera phone to film female colleagues using the toilet where he worked has been spared a jail sentence.”
BBC News, 16th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Dyer, R. v [2010] EWCA Crim 2096 (20 August 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The Lord Chancellor Kenneth Clarke has outlined plans to create a unified judiciary in England and Wales under the overall leadership of the Lord Chief Justice. Work is already well under way to create a new single unified organisation bringing together Her Majesty’s Court Service and the Tribunals Service, after the plan was announced in March.”
Minsitry of Justice, 16th September 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service Central Fraud Group has authorised a charge of conspiracy to defraud against former Essex County cricketer Mervyn Westfield.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 16th September 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“The Government has outlined the changes that will need to be made to laws and regulations so that the UK complies with the new EU telecoms rules passed last year.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th September 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“Supreme court judge, Baroness Brenda Hale, on the highlight of the court’s first year, selling bottled water and becoming known as ‘Ms Diversity.’ ”
The Guardian, 16th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An elderly man who tormented his neighbours by singing loudly outside their homes and insulting them has been given a 16-week suspended jail term.”
BBC News, 16th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A cocaine dealer owed thousands of pounds by clients has been sent to prison for four years.”
BBC News, 16th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Freedom of information hearing delayed until next year for reasons panel cannot ‘go into.’ ”
The Guardian, 16th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Press watchdog censures writer over Sunday Times column in which he described TV presenter as a ‘dyke on a bike.’ ”
The Guardian, 17th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lord Prescott is to launch a claim for a judicial review of the Metropolitan Police’s handling of the News of the World phone-hacking case, he said today.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th September 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A company is to be prosecuted after a man, 58, was killed at a tractor-pulling competition in Lancashire.”
BBC News, 16th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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