“Britain’s most senior family judge called last night for urgent action over a crisis in the family courts fuelled by increasing delays in child abuse cases and lack of funds.”
The Times, 3rd July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The families of two murdered French students today criticised the decision not to refer their sons’ killers’ sentences to the Court of Appeal.”
The Independent, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two young men involved in the gang-rape of a girl who was then attacked with caustic soda have had their sentences increased by the Court of Appeal.”
BBC News, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Pre-nuptial contracts have won the clear backing of the English courts after years of suspicion and even hostility.”
The Times, 3rd July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“One of Britain’s biggest online paedophile investigations will be challenged in the Court of Appeal following allegations that hundreds of men may have been wrongly convicted in a ‘huge miscarriage of justice’, it was reported today.”
The Independent, 3rd July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Delays of up to two years in issuing an asbo are to be cut under proposals unveiled by the new home secretary, Alan Johnson, in his first major speech on crime and antisocial behaviour.”
The Guardian, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A landmark House of Lords ruling will undermine the certainty of contracts and could make it more expensive to take cases over contract interpretation to court, according to a contract law expert.”
OUT-LAW.com, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Justice Secretary Jack Straw today refused an appeal for a pardon by jailed football fan Michael Shields.”
The Independent, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The prisons system in England and Wales is in crisis, reformers said today, as they called for drastic cuts in the number of criminals jailed.”
The Independent, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A wealthy German heiress worth £100 million today won a Court of Appeal case that will leave her former husband, now an impoverished student, with only maintenance money for his daughters.”
The Times, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Some 20 net users have come forward claiming they have been wrongly accused of illegally sharing video games.”
BBC News, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Scotland Yard has failed to carry out a series of changes it was ordered to make after disastrous blunders led its officers to kill Jean Charles de Menezes, according to an official report.”
The Guardian, 1st July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Problem-solving courts for offenders with mental health problems or learning disabilities, the first of their kind in England and Wales, were today formally launched by Justice Secretary Jack Straw.”
Ministry of Justice, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“On Tuesday 30 June 2009, the Sentencing Guidelines Council published a draft guideline on the principles which apply when courts sentence young offenders. The guideline is set in the context of new laws for sentencing young people which are expected to come into force later this year.”
Consultation guideline: Overarching principles – Sentencing youths (PDF)
Letter to consultees (PDF)
Advice: Sentencing principles – youths (PDF)
Press Notice (PDF)
Sentencing Guidelines Council, 30th June 2009
Source: www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk
“The cross-examination of the four- year-old girl in the Baby Peter-related rape trial raised uncomfortable questions about how the justice system treats child witnesses.”
The Times, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Ronnie Biggs, the man at the centre of Britain’s great train robbery, will remain in prison after the justice secretary, Jack Straw, refused to grant him parole.”
The Guardian, 1st July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government will today set out details of its plan to ban lenders from sending out unsolicited credit card cheques to consumers. The Government will today set out details of its plan to ban lenders from sending out unsolicited credit card cheques to consumers.”
The Independent, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government’s efforts to rush through emergency legislation to clean up politics tonight took a second knock in as many days as it was defeated in its attempts to make it easier to secure prosecutions in alleged cases of ‘cash for questions’.”
The Guardian, 1st July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Last December the European Court of Human Rights decided in S and Marper v The United Kingdom that the retention by the State of DNA profiles is a breach of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. That is because information about people arrested for, or charged with, an offence but not subsequently convicted, is kept on the national DNA database for an unlimited period of time. The Government has accepted the judgment of the European court and announced that it will change the law to ensure compliance. But its proposed method of doing so is unsatisfactory and needs reconsideration.”
The Times, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A speeding motorcyclist has been jailed after a traffic policeman used Google to expose his false claims that an American woman had been riding his bike at the time.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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