“The government decides compensation should be paid only to those who wrongly spend time in prison if new evidence has proved them innocent.”
The Guardian, 15th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A fraudster, Gageen Preet Singh, repeatedly failed driving tests he took on behalf of candidates across Britain despite being paid hundreds of pounds for each exam he sat, a court heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th August 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Privacy laws are being introduced by the back door due to a lack of Parliamentary guidance on the issue, legal experts warned yesterday after Colin Montgomerie became the latest celebrity to obtain an injunction over allegations about his private life.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th August 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Just one person in eight arrested under anti-terror laws is eventually found guilty and the proportion was even lower last year, new research has disclosed.”
The Independent, 13th August 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The UK is operating a ‘parallel, unfair and secretive shadow justice system’ for terror suspects, according to human rights campaigners.”
BBC News, 12th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A group of prominent legal and medical experts called today for a full inquest into the death of the government scientist David Kelly in 2003.”
The Guardian, 13th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A paedophile from Lancashire who created a horror film set at his home to try to lure children has been jailed indefinitely.”
BBC News, 12th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“David Cameron is backing an idea put forward by Greater Manchester councils to ban cheap booze using a by-law. But how ambitious can councils be when they are drawing up by-laws?”
BBC News, 12th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A wildlife campaigner has drowned a grey squirrel to challenge the RSPCA to prosecute him.”
The Independent, 12th August 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service has decided that four officers of the Metropolitan Police Service’s Territorial Support Group should be charged with causing actual bodily harm to Babar Ahmad during his arrest on 2 December 2003.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 12th August 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“The war crimes trial of the former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, has hit the headlines in the UK after the dramatic evidence of supermodel Naomi Campbell and her former agent, Carole White. If convicted, Mr Taylor will serve his sentence in a British jail. Why is this and where might he be housed?”
BBC News, 12th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Copyright Tribunal did not have a sound basis for the royalty rate it set in a dispute between rights holders and a music TV broadcaster, the High Court has said. The Tribunal set a new rate on spurious grounds and misunderstood evidence, it said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th August 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“A hitman who flew from Thailand to murder a frail Surrey woman on behalf of her former husband was told today that he was likely to spend the rest of his life behind bars.”
The Guardian, 11th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Promised reforms to speed up coroners’ courts have been put on hold leaving many bereaved families waiting months or years for verdicts.”
BBC News, 12th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Britain’s defamation laws are so tough that it is regarded as an international centre for ‘libel tourism’.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th August 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A schoolboy who was told by a judge that he must live with the father he claimed to hate yesterday succeeded in forcing the High Court to reverse its decision.”
The Independent, 12th August 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A smuggler has been jailed for 20 years for the manslaughter of a taxi driver who died after unwittingly drinking a shot of rum from a bottle heavily laced with cocaine.”
The Guardian, 11th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A housing official sacked after suggesting a woman with an incurable illness ‘put her faith in God’ has lost his legal challenge.”
BBC News, 11th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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