“Man Financial, the City brokerage, deliberately overstated the value of a customer trading account by millions of pounds in a systematic ‘fraud’, the High Court will hear today. ”
The Times, 9th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Life has stood still for Stephen Miller since he was arrested more than 20 years ago and charged with the murder of a young woman in Cardiff. ‘Not one day goes past without me thinking about the case,’ he said. ‘My life is stuck in 1988.'”
The Guardian, 9th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hundreds of thousands of extra crimes could be committed because of plans to cut the number of officers monitoring dangerous offenders, probation staff have warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The UK government’s treatment of the children of asylum seekers in detention is ‘abusive’ and ‘dehumanising’, it has been claimed.”
BBC News, 8th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police are not investigating the deaths of the husband and wife who became the first terminally ill British couple to be helped to die together in Switzerland, it emerged yesterday.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Teenage criminals who commit repeated crimes because of a drug habit could get only a single caution to cover all their offences under new Government rules.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An independent inquiry into the treatment of a man with paranoid schizophrenia who randomly stabbed six people, killing one, has condemned the care he had before the attacks and found that a nurse had altered notes relating to his case.”
The Guardian, 9th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A register of people who have attacked their partners could help prevent other potential victims of domestic abuse, the government has said.”
BBC News, 8th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A graphic account by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed of his alleged torture during interrogation sessions has been passed to the high court.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Speed limits on most single-carriageway roads in rural areas could be cut from 60mph to 50mph under a Government plan to cut the number of deaths in car accidents.”
The Independent, 9th March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government’s human rights watchdog will take on the MoD in a test case later which could extend human rights law to soldiers on battlefields abroad.”
BBC News, 9th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to examine events leading up to the 24-year-old’s death at the hands of Brian Taylor in October amid claims that officers could have been prevented it.”
The Telegraph, 9th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“New revelations by Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed, claiming that British intelligence played a central role in his torture and interrogation, must be answered by the government, the former shadow home secretary David Davis said last night.”
The Guardian, 8th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Criminals released early from prison under a scheme to end overcrowding have been paid more than £5 million in compensation, official figures show.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“As big firms cut hundreds of transactional lawyers, some have never been busier.”
The Times, 9th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“HMP Grendon is a prison with a mission, a unique high-security facility where inmates face up to their crimes through group therapy, role-playing and psychoanalysis. And studies show this pioneering approach to rehabilitation produces extraordinary results.”
The Independent, 7th March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Victims and witnesses face long delays in criminal trials because of a shortage of courtrooms, the government spending watchdog has warned.”
BBC News, 6th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police are targeting thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations and storing their details on a database for at least seven years, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal.”
The Guardian, 6th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Harriet Harman has been accused of a conflict of interest after it emerged that she once advocated the watering down of child pornography laws.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Shabby solicitor’s office in north London at the centre of an extraordinary transatlantic investigation.”
The Independent, 7th March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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