“The independent inquiry into phone hacking will have the power to summon newspaper proprietors, journalists, police and politicians to give evidence under oath and in public, Prime Minister David Cameron said today.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Who will be appointed to head the inquiry into how the police investigated the phone-hacking scandal?”
The Guardian, 11th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“More than 900 police personnel were disciplined for unlawful data protection practices in the past three years, privacy campaigners have said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“An unexpected ruling by a judge six years ago effectively covered up the chance to publicly expose evidence of the illegal targeting of Gordon Brown, which had been unearthed by a startled team of provincial detectives.”
The Guardian, 11th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Summary Justice In and Out of Court: The Police Foundation’s John Harris Memorial Lecture (PDF)
Speech by Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Judiciary of England and Wales, 8th July 2011
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Prime Minister David Cameron today promised action to ‘get to the bottom’ of the phone hacking scandal but said it was not just about the press but about the police and ‘about how politics works too’. ”
The Independent, 8th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“David Cameron will meet Ed Miliband next Wednesday to agree terms of two official inquiries into the phone-hacking scandal, including a judge-led inquiry into the conduct of the original police investigation, and an inquiry into the future of the media and its regulation.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Lord Chief Justice yesterday attacked the ‘widespread’ use of out of court penalties amid fears one in three are being inappropriately handed out.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Three police investigations involving a Bedfordshire man who was murdered, decapitated and dumped in a lake were ‘flawed’, the police watchdog has said.”
BBC News, 7th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The home secretary, Theresa May, is to ask MPs to pass an emergency bill to resolve the police bail crisis amid warnings from defence lawyers that it amounts to a ‘smash and grab raid’ to boost police powers.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Law Society has urged the home secretary to consider safeguards to the emergency bail legislation about to go through Parliament to prevent abuse of the bail system by police.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 6th July 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Metropolitan police officers illegally detained children as young as 11 for more than six hours during a ‘kettling’ operation against tuition fee protesters, the high court has been told.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Public authorities should have to publish annual reports that prove they comply with new UK equality laws from 2012, proposed new regulations say.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Activists accused of occupying the luxury London food retailer Fortnum & Mason during tax avoidance protests in March are expected to plead not guilty to charges of aggravated trespass on Tuesday.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Pryor v Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police [2011] EWCA Civ 749; [2011] WLR (D) 214
“Where the police exercised powers to seize the vehicle of a driver who was driving a friend’s car, but who was in fact insured to drive the vehicle in question and had the written permission of the owner to do so, the seizure could found liability in tort.”
WLR Daily, 30th June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Emergency legislation designed to reverse a controversial judgement on police bail will go before MPs on Thursday.”
BBC News, 4th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Many vital police services – from witness protection to fingerprint databasing – could collapse as a result a shake-up of crime-fighting, the president of the Association of Police Chief Officers (Acpo) will warn today.”
The Independent, 4th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The contentious police tactic of ‘kettling’ demonstrators is to face a series of legal challenges that could result in it being outlawed – starting with a case tomorrow brought by three teenagers.”
The Independent, 4th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Emergency legislation is to be introduced to overturn a court ruling that has severely restricted police powers to detain suspects for questioning and plunged police bail laws into chaos.”
The Guardian, 30th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A police force has launched an inquiry to discover why two of its officers went to the home of a 13-year-old schoolboy at nearly midnight to question him about throwing an apple at a fellow pupil.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th June 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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