“HM Revenue & Customs has suffered seven ‘significant’ breaches of security involving the loss of personal data in the past 2½ years, the organisation’s new acting chairman disclosed yesterday.”
The Times, 6th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Young Muslims are being convicted of thought crimes and branded as terrorists for life, the country’s most prominent Islamic leader has told The Times.”
The Times, 6th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“MPs will be given a vote on whether to trigger emergency powers that would allow terrorist suspects to be held beyond 28 days, under plans to be announced by the Home Secretary within days.”
The Times, 6th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The length and cost of mammoth commercial trials is set to be drastically curbed under proposed reforms seen by The Times.”
The Times, 6th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Government is to build three huge new prisons as part of a package of measures designed to ease over-crowding by creating 10,500 extra places.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th December 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Health and safety laws may be standing in the way of police officers showing bravery, according to the chief constable of Merseyside.”
BBC News, 5th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Christian group has lost its High Court battle to prosecute the BBC’s director general over the screening of Jerry Springer – The Opera, in 2005.”
BBC News, 5th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teenager has been given an antisocial behaviour order that bans him from promoting his criminal behaviour online.”
The Guardian, 5th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Court of Appeal rules that Wendy Haines does not have to give up her share of the matrimonial home proceeds to pay off ex-husband’s creditors.”
The Times, 5th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The government needs to review the scale of its plans for identity cards in the wake of the release of 25 million names and addresses on government child benefit records, the information commissioner, Richard Thomas, told the justice select committee yesterday.”
The Guardian, 5th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A corrupt solicitor who was at the heart of a criminal network that made multimillion-pound profits from the heroin trade will be jailed today.”
The Times, 5th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Private security firms have criticised the UK government for ‘dithering’ over the introduction of tighter rules.”
BBC News, 4th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The reoffend rate for convicts could be cut if the government did more to support the children and families of those in jail, campaigners say.”
BBC News, 5th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The scale of the problem of British girls being lured into prostitution in their own country is being examined by the Home Office.”
BBC News, 5th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Women could have abortions in doctors’ surgeries under proposals being considered by the Department of Health, it has emerged.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th December 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Criminals should be sentenced according to the spaces available in jail for them, a wide-ranging review of the prison service is expected to recommend.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th December 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Controversial paediatrician Dr David Southall has been struck off the medical register after being found guilty of serious misconduct.”
The Times, 5th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Britain’s high street banks have raised billions of pounds in funds through complex financial deals that use supposedly charitable trusts which are not donating a penny to good causes, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 5th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Twenty babies born to British surrogate mothers have been taken abroad unlawfully by the foreign couples who commissioned them because of an oversight by British courts, it emerged yesterday.”
The Guardian, 5th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ministers are braced for a new wave of ‘Datagate’ scandals after the Government’s information watchdog said he was investigating several possible breaches of data protection laws.”
The Independent, 5th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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