“Abuses connected with undercover police activities show that an urgent review is
needed of laws covering such work in England and Wales, MPs have said.”
BBC News, 1st March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Sun did not breach rules on subterfuge when it obtained details of a police evidence list at the scene of the Norfolk Broads deaths, the press watchdog has ruled.”
The Guardian, 27th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The police watchdog has written to a chief constable expressing concern over comments in an email about the Hillsborough disaster that were ‘at best ill-judged and at worst offensive and upsetting’.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A police officer at a sex crime unit encouraged a woman to drop a rape claim against a man who went on to murder his two children, a report has said.”
BBC News, 26th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The High Court will hear a legal challenge to the practice of treating 17-year-olds detained in police custody as adults, in a judicial review being brought by Just For Kids Law next week.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“An investigation has been launched into the behaviour of five police call handlers following the death of a man with mental health problems.”
The Guardian, 19th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Police and prosecutors are studying a damning report into ‘appalling’ failures of care at an NHS hospital where hundreds of patients needlessly died, to examine whether any criminal charges need to be brought against those involved.”
The Guardian, 15th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Kelvin MacKenzie, the former editor of the Sun, faces being sued for malfeasance over his newspaper’s coverage of the Hillsborough football disaster.”
The Guardian, 16th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former Tory peer who was jailed over the parliamentary expenses scandal has won £3,500 damages from Essex Police.”
The Independent, 15th February 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The court of appeal has rejected an attempt by the Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe to overturn an award of £28,250 in damages to a severely autistic teenager who was put in handcuffs and leg restraints and held in a police van after jumping into a swimming pool.”
The Guardian, 14th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The former Scotland Yard commander Ali Dizaei has lost his appeal against a conviction which ended the career of one of the most controversial police officers in recent times.”
The Guardian, 14th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has rejected a bid to overturn a damages award made to a teenager with autism restrained by police after jumping fully-clothed into a swimming pool.”
BBC News, 14th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government is proposing to make it easier for the police to seize confidential material from journalists, it emerged on Wednesday night. Legal experts warned that the plans risked trampling on long-standing protections from the state.”
The Guardian, 13th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to be expanded to deal with all serious complaints against the police, the Home Secretary announced today.”
Home Office, 12th February 2013
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“An investigation into undercover policing at the Metropolitan Police is to be
overseen by another force.”
BBC News, 11th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A lack of skilled workers is hampering the UK’s fight against cyber crime, the
National Audit Office (NAO) has warned.”
BBC News, 12th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A video journalist is fighting a court application by police to force him to hand over footage he shot of the English Defence League.”
The Guardian, 11th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An intimate sexual relationship instigated by an undercover police officer with a member of the public for the purposes of obtaining information fell within the scope of ‘personal or other relationship with a person’ for the purposes of section 26(8) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 so that, by section 65, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal had exclusive jurisdiction to hear a claim brought against the police under the Human Rights Act 1998.”
WLR Daily, 18th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) should be replaced with a new body that can hold the police to account when something goes wrong, says the former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Lord Stevens.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Anti-war protesters who were prevented by police from attending a mass rally outside an RAF airbase have been awarded more than £4,000 each in compensation.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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