“Reading the Riots spoke to people with various experiences of the justice system, including a judge, lawyers and a looter.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The High Court has condemned the current system of means testing in magistrates’ court and called on the Ministry of Justice to take urgent action to cut ‘unacceptable’ delays.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Oxford University Press, the global academic publishing department of the university, has been ordered to pay nearly £1.9m after two subsidiary companies bribed government officials for contracts to supply school textbooks in east Africa.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Short-term loan company Wonga.com has avoided a ban from the advertising watchdog despite more than 80 complaints that its ads failed to show that it charged up to 4,214% interest.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Ministry of Justice has published a detailed breakdown of riot cases. See what the data says.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Collecting societies will be able to collect royalties on behalf of all rights holders and not just members under a Government plan that would require individual content creators to opt out of their systems.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A jealous rival who beat a TV actor to death in a sickening attack over a prostitute they both loved was jailed for life for murder today and ordered to serve a minimum 30 years.”
The Independent, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Sentencing rulebook was ‘torn up and thrown away’, magistrate says, but prosecutors argue harsher punishments were justified.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Independent Police Complaints’ Commission (IPCC) is to recruit more investigators from outside the police service.”
BBC News, 4th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Prosecutors speak of their pride in the way the CPS and the courts rose to the unprecedented challenge of the English riots, but defence lawyers tell a story of panic and paralysis.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Was the remand system used appropriately, was due process sufficiently observed and were the stiff sentences justified?”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Foreign governments could be given details of Britons’ phone calls, emails and internet usage in another ‘deeply troubling’ part of new surveillance plans.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Britain must secure the release of a Pakistani man captured by UK special forces and held by the US in Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram jail without trial for more than eight years, his lawyers told the supreme court this week.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The NHS has paid out a record £1 billion in litigation claims in one year, it has emerged.”
The Independent, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A memorandum of understanding (MOU) to ensure consistent and thorough handling of cases involving undercover officers where there may be a criminal prosecution has been signed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).”
Crown Prosecution Office, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Prisoners who took jobs outside jail have lost their High Court claim that a levy on their wages which goes to victim support is too high.”
The Independent, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A teenager who raped a five-year-old girl while babysittng her was spared a custodial sentence after a judge heard he had been ‘corrupted’ by internet pornography.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A woman who feels like a freak because of the effect on her growth of an undiagnosed tumour is claiming £2 million damages.”
The Independent, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, has invited 29 individuals convicted following the Drax Power Station protest in 2008 to appeal against their convictions. This protest involved the former undercover officer Mark Kennedy.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 3rd July 2012
Source: http://blog.cps.gov.uk
“Although the heading to this article ought to be unnecessary, it is plain from recent judgments both in the High Court and the Court of Appeal that insufficient attention is being paid to the Part 36 regime by parties wishing to settle their differences.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 28th June 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
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