“A property developer who set fire to a country house on his wedding night, causing more than £5m-worth of damage, has been sentenced to six years in jail.”
The Guardian, 21st March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“For the last four years, London’s family drug and alcohol court has been trying to get drug and alcohol misusing families back on track. It has done so by following a different approach from the traditional, more punitive measures adopted by the mainstream courts. Joshua Rozenberg visits the court to find out how effective its pioneering work has been and what those who use it think of it. He speaks to those involved in the day-to-day work of the court – including the district judge, the principals of the main charity involved in its creation, legal representatives and others with expert knowledge of the problems which the court’s family users must tackle to put their lives back in order – and talks to observers of the court who have reservations about its approach. Law in Action discovers how far this innovative – but expensive – legal model is one which can realistically be emulated elsewhere in the UK when public funds are under such pressure.”
BBC Law in Action, 13th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Violent and disruptive drinkers will be targeted by a new Sobriety Order to reduce reoffending and cut crime, Justice Minister Nick Herbert announced today [16 March].”
Ministry of Justice, 16th March 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Criminals convicted of alcohol-related offences who avoid jail will be forced to wear ‘sobriety bracelets’, which monitor drinking levels, under a tough community sentence regime ordered by David Cameron.”
The Guardian, 17th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“He swore at officers after going berserk and headbutting Tory MP Stuart Andrew and councillor Ben Maney. The suspended Labour party member was warned he could face prison for the attacks. But chief magistrate Howard Riddle fined him £3,000 and ordered him to pay £1,400 to victims after he entered early guilty pleas.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina v Dowds: [2012] EWCA Crim 281; [2012] WLR (D) 43
“The reformulation of the statutory conditions for diminished responsibility was not intended to reverse the well established rule that voluntary acute intoxication was incapable of being relied on to found diminished responsibility and the presence of a recognised medical condition, although necessary, was not always a sufficient condition to raise the issue of diminished responsibility.”
WLR Daily, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“US-style sobriety bracelets for criminals who are persistently convicted of drink-related offences are to be tested this summer in London.”
The Guardian, 10th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Nicholas Crichton, a family judge, tells Juliet Rix that we need more courts to help parents to tackle their drug and alcohol problems.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man accused of drink-driving after being caught more than four times the alcohol limit while riding his mobility scooter has been let off because his vehicle was too small to be classed as a road vehicle.”
The Guardian, 19th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A driver who caused a fatal crash, two minutes after leaving a pub in Norfolk, has been jailed for eight years.”
BBC News, 16th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The court gets results – but funding cuts put it under threat.”
The Guardian, 15th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It is the latest accessory modelled by actress Lindsay Lohan and soon the ‘sobriety bracelet’ could adorn the ankles of British criminals too, under proposals being considered by Scotland Yard’s Commissioner.”
The Independent, 14th December 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“District Judge Nicholas Crichton takes exception to the recently announced £41m increase in the cost of the opening and closing ceremonies for the Olympics. It is difficult not to agree with him, however much you might be looking forward to next year’s festivities, especially when vital services such as the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC), which he leads, have a financial question mark hanging over their future.”
LAG News Blog, 7th December 2011
“A nursery teacher was so drunk on a long-haul flight that she indecently assaulted a steward she mistook for her boyfriend, a court heard yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A mother of four who admitted biting her boyfriend’s scrotum during a drunken row has been given a suspended jail term.”
BBC News, 11th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Cambridge student was ordered to pay thousands of pounds in compensation to a female undergraduate after he fell while carrying her and crushed her pelvis while drunk.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A mother of four who admitted biting her boyfriend’s testicles during a drunken row has been warned she is facing jail.”
BBC News, 25th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A US businessman who drunkenly abused staff on a British Airways flight to London has been jailed for three months.”
BBC News, 23rd September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman who drove 23 miles the wrong way along a motorway while twice the drink-drive limit has been jailed for nine months.”
The Guardian, 7th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has said two officers acted properly when they dealt with a Neath Valley man who later died.”
BBC News, 2nd August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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