“Poll shows overwhelming support for missing Madeleine’s father on how Leveson inquiry findings must be enforced.”
The Guardian, 9th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hundreds of people have died; others have been starved, dehydrated and left in appalling conditions of indignity, witnessed by their loved ones. Surely this is what Chris Grayling, Justice Secretary, had in mind when he recently cautioned to need to ‘concentrate on real human rights’?”
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th February 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Robert Francis QC speaks to the media following the release of his report into the Mid Staffordshire NHS trust scandal, in which between 400 to 1,200 people died as a result of inadequate care. Francis makes 290 recommendations in the report. He says that many were failed by a system that put ‘corporate self-interest’ ahead of patients and their safety.”
The Guardian, 6th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The scale of Robert Francis’s report cannot be overestimated – and neither can the magnitude of cultural change it calls for.”
The Guardian, 6th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related link: Final report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry
“NHS hospitals should face prosecution if doctors and nurses fail to blow the whistle on patients receiving poor care, an official inquiry into the scandal at Stafford Hospital will recommend on Wednesday.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The privatisation of court interpreting services has been ‘shambolic’, MPs warn saying it has caused more trials to collapse and suspects to be remanded unnecessarily in custody.”
The Guardian, 6th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Fresh investigations have been ordered into the deaths of several prisoners who died in suspicious circumstances while under British military custody in Iraq, the high court has been told.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Allegations that British troops in Iraq were guilty of killing civilians and ‘terrifying acts of brutality’ were made at the High Court today [29 January].”
The Independent, 29th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“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
“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
“The Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has called in an external force to review Scotland Yard’s criminal investigation into the plebgate saga.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“High court to hear shocking testimonies alleging sexual abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners and their families by British armed forces between 2003 and 2008.”
The Guardian, 19th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Care services minister, Norman Lamb, appoints peer to carry out review of Liverpool Care Pathway after months of denunciations.”
The Guardian, 15th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’) has published its response to the recommendations that Lord Justice Leveson made to the ICO and the Ministry of Justice (‘MoJ’) in his Inquiry Report on the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press. See here for the full response.”
Panopticon, 14th January 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“Jimmy Savile’s ability to commit hundreds of serious sexual offences inside public institutions, ‘hiding in plain sight’ as Friday’s police and NSPCC report on his crimes puts it, seems almost incredible. And for his victims, it is indeed credibility which is the issue at the heart of this scandal.”
BBC News, 12th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“At the end of what is always the busiest month of the year for gyms, the OFT is expected to announce that it will outlaw contracts that last longer than 12 months or do not contain a get-out clause for members who, for example, lose their job or sustain an injury. The move follows a year-long investigation into a number of gym chains, believed to include LA Fitness, Fitness First and Bannatyne’s. The OFT is also understood to be looking at debt collectors that some reports say use aggressive practices in chasing money owed to gym groups.”
The Guardian, 12th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The current classification system simply cannot keep up as a new legal high emerges every six days in the UK and young people share links to where they can be bought online and via their mobile phones, Baroness Meacher, chairwoman of the parliamentary inquiry into legal highs, said.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Independent Review of the Waterhouse Tribunal will today publish an Issues Paper calling for views on the scope of the original Inquiry and whether or not it sufficiently investigated specific allegations of child abuse in North Wales care homes.”
Macur Review, 8th January 2013
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
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