“Prison staff bugged conversations between a convicted killer and his solicitor without authorisation, Jack Straw admitted yesterday.”
The Times, 16th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Phone and internet companies will soon be forced to keep logs of internet usage to be made available to the police under a new law announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown this week.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th May 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“An Army veteran has been fitted with an electronic tag and subjected to a curfew for failing to report a road accident.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th May 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An official report has warned that the government’s plans for ID cards may put poorer people at greater risk of fraud, and that ministers are failing to coordinate implementation of the 10-year programme.”
The Guardian, 16th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Fathers have been urged to make use of new rights to work part-time when the Government extends the law on flexible employment in April.”
The Times, 16th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The supermarket chain Budgens has installed face recognition cameras in one of its stores to stop children buying alcohol and cigarettes.”
BBC News, 13th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Hugh Grant, Liz Hurley and her husband Arun Nayar have accepted £58,000 damages for invasion of privacy over photographs taken of them on holiday.”
BBC News, 15th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Prison sentences would be set nationally by an independent body depending on the amount of space in jails, under government plans.”
BBC News, 15th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The following guidance is aimed at people working in central government departments who deal with freedom of information requests. It may also be a useful reference tool for those working in other public authorities.”
Ministry of Justice, 14th May 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, is likely to be told that he will never be freed when he is given the minimum term he must serve for the murder of 13 women. He has instructed lawyers to apply to the High Court for a tariff – the minimum term – to be set for the first time since he was jailed in 1981.”
The Times, 15th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Record labels are losing their battle with digital piracy as the number of people who regularly download songs legally falls back, research will claim today.”
The Guardian, 15th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The right to request flexible working is to be extended to about 4.5 million parents of children aged up to 16.”
BBC News, 15th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two brothers were yesterday found guilty of murdering a father-of-two after trying to steal his radio. Balbir Matharu saw one of the men breaking his van window and tried to stop him. But the thieves, Albert and Tommy Willett, drove off in their car, dragging Matharu under it for 40 metres along the road, then ran over him.”
The Guardian, 15th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Ministry of Defence bowed to pressure yesterday by agreeing to hold a public inquiry into the death of an Iraqi hotel worker in British custody in Basra. ”
The Times, 15th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The banking reform bill announced by Gordon Brown today (14 May) was prompted by the collapse of Northern Rock, which exposed significant problems with the current system.”
The Guardian, 14th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The number of crimes committed by girls in England and Wales has gone up by 25% in three years, according to figures.”
BBC News, 15th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service and West Midlands Police will apologise in the High Court today for wrongly accusing a Channel 4 film of faking an exposé of Islamic extremism.”
The Times, 15th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Gordon Brown should abandon plans to take the ‘extraordinary step’ of detaining terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days because the proposals are fundamentally flawed, a committee of MPs and peers advised yesterday.”
The Guardian, 15th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“High-profile teenage killings over the past 12 months have pushed knife crime to the top of the political agenda, but the true scale of the problem is difficult to assess.”
The Guardian, 14th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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