‘More than 1,000 former senior police officers are seeking compensation after being forced to retire under the controversial regulation A19.’
BBC News, 10th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘R (Catt) and R (T) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2015] UKSC 9. A majority of the Supreme Court has held that the retention by police of information on the Domestic Extremism Database about a 91 year-old activist’s presence at political protests was (1) in accordance with the law and (2) a proportionate interference with his right to a private life under Article 8(1) of the ECHR.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th March 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The prevalence of racist and misogynistic abuse online has become firmly established as a matter that now warrants considerable political attention. As legislators pick between the differences in “real world” and online forms of abuse, as well as judicial borders of the internet, Rhory Robertson, partner at Collyer Bristow LLP, outlines the many questions that must be addressed in any new lawmaking.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 6th March 2015
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘A committee of MPs has condemned police for continuing to upload custody photographs, including of people never charged, to a face recognition database, despite a high court judgement that ruled the practice was unlawful.’
The Guardian, 7th March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A police officer who Tasered a petrol-soaked man who then caught fire and died has been cleared of misconduct.’
BBC News, 7th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Too many offenders in England and Wales are given “just a slap on the wrist” for serious crimes, MPs have argued.’
BBC News, 6th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The code provides guidance and sets out considerations that apply to the exercise of powers of entry including, where appropriate, the need to minimise disruption to business. It will ensure greater consistency in the exercise of powers of entry, and greater clarity for those affected by them, while upholding effective enforcement.’
Home Office, 4th March 2015
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘Police chiefs have won a court battle against a 90-year-old peace activist fighting to have his personal details removed from an extremism database.’
BBC News, 4th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Met Police’s handling of a child’s disappearance on the way home from Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s wedding in 1981 is to be investigated.’
BBC News, 3rd March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘As magistrate numbers continue to fall Joshua Rozenberg goes to Bradford to meet one of 300 who sit on the bench there. Would the system of lay magistrates – with no legal qualifications – be invented today? The answer is an intriguing one.’
BBC Law in Action, 24th February 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A former City banker has won nearly £70,000 in damages from Essex Police after he was named on a “most wanted list” as a suspected rapist on the run – despite phoning the force on his own initiative and offering to fly from Dubai to explain his innocence.’
The Independent, 2nd March 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Nearly 50 Metropolitan police officers and 26 staff members have been suspended for alleged corruption in the past two years, figures show.’
BBC News, 3rd March 2015
Source:www.bbc.co.uk
‘Overriding lawyer-client & confidential communications is incompatible with the rule of law, as Nicholas Griffin QC, Robert O’Sullivan QC & Gordon Nardell QC explain.’
New Law Journal, 27th February 2015
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
‘In a recent judgment, the Court of Appeal held that where a criminal suspect is remanded in custody, Article 5 of the Convention requires the police to notify the court as soon as possible if there is no longer a reasonable basis for suspecting them. It also held that the police and CPS must aid the court in observing its duty to show ‘special diligence’ in managing a suspect’s detention, by investigating the case conscientiously and by promptly bringing relevant material to the court’s attention.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 27th February 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘More than 300 young people have been groomed and sexually exploited by gangs of men in Oxfordshire in the past 15 years, a damning report into the failures of police and social services to stop years of sexual torture, trafficking and rape will reveal, the Guardian has learned.’
The Guardian, 1st March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A QC-led investigation into the collapse of a police trial following the wrongful conviction of three people for the murder of Lynette White.’
Home Office, 26th February 2015
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘An environmental activist has been jailed for two years for putting the lives of police officers in danger by targeting patrol cars with homemade tyre-deflation spikes to “give them a taste of their own medicine”.’
The Guardian, 24th February 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A damning report has alleged that ‘incompetent’ police chiefs violated Sir Cliff Richard’s privacy by disclosing details of a raid on his home to the BBC’
Daily Telegraph, 23rd February 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Police to be told they need to obtain the permission of a judge if they want to obtain details of a journalist’s phone calls or emails.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st February 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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