Finance & Divorce Update – Family Law Week
‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor of Mills & Reeve LLP analyses the financial remedies and divorce news and cases from February 2015.’
Family Law Week, 22nd March 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Category: statistics
The true statistics behind judicial review’s success rates – UK Human Rights Blog
‘Avid readers of the legal press may have spotted the eye-catching statistic that in 2014 a meagre 1% of claims for judicial review were successful.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Tom Hickman and Maurice Sunkin: Success in Judicial Review: The Current Position – UK Constitutional Law Association
‘Avid readers of the legal press may have spotted the eye-catching statistic that in 2014 a meagre 1% of claims for judicial review were successful.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 20th March 2015
Source: www.constitutionallaw.org
No convictions over 500 black and Asian deaths in custody – The Guardian
‘More than 500 black and ethnic minority individuals have died in suspicious circumstances while in state detention over the past 24 years, but not a single official has been successfully prosecuted, a report examining institutional racism has revealed.’
The Guardian, 21st March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
A Point of View: Do parliament’s select committees wield too much power? – BBC News
‘Parliamentary select committees have seen their profile grow over the past few years, but are they the right way of holding power to account, asks Tom Shakespeare.’
BBC News, 22nd March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
No evidence of regulatory risks from online divorce, research finds – Legal Futures
‘There is no evidence of online divorce leading to regulatory risks, joint research by the Legal Services Board (LSB) and Legal Services Consumer Panel has concluded.’
Legal Futures, 19th March 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Paedophile cases may need to be streamlined, warns top officer – Daily Telegraph
‘National Crime Agency chief hints at possible updates to the way child pornography offences are prosecuted, as it emerges more than 260 people have been charged in new investigation.’
Daily Telegraph, 20th March 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Lord Woolf: Conditions in prisons are as bad now as they were 25 years ago
‘Conditions in prisons are as bad now as they were at the time of one of Britain’s worst jail riots, a former lord chief justice has warned.’
The Independent, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Police use stop and search powers on 300 toddlers – Daily Telegraph
‘Research shows hundreds of under-fives have been frisked by officers in the last five years, often because of fears they have been forced to carry drugs or guns.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th March 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
MPs criticise ‘chasm’ between FGM prosecutions and reports – BBC News
‘MPs have criticised the “chasm” between the number of reported cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK and the number of prosecutions.’
BBC News, 14th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
£1,200 tribunal fee prompts 40 per cent fall in pregnancy-discrimination claims – The Independent
‘The number of women lodging pregnancy-discrimination claims has fallen by 40 per cent since the Government introduced fees of £1,200 to go to a tribunal, new figures have revealed.’
The Independent, 15th March 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Historic abuse blamed for rise in child rape cases – BBC News
‘Historic sexual abuse is fuelling the rise in the number of child rape cases being recorded in some parts of Wales, say two police forces.’
BBC News, 12th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Are race discrimination laws still needed in the workplace? – BBC News
‘UKIP leader Nigel Farage has claimed that concerns over race discrimination in the workplace are outdated, and no longer relevant to his “colour-blind” party.
Mr Farage said the laws “would probably have been valid” 40 years ago, but that he would scrap many of them today.’
BBC News, 12th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Number of judicial review applications falls from 15,600 to 4,000 – Litigation Futures
‘The number of judicial review applications lodged at the High Court fell from 15,600 to just 4,062 last year – caused mainly, but not entirely by the transfer of immigration and asylum cases to the Upper Tribunal.’
Litigation Futures, 10th March 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Default judgments soar as defences plummet – Law Society’s Gazette
‘The number of civil court judgments leapt by 25% last year as more claims went undefended, official statistics have revealed.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 9th March 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Hundreds of convicted sex offenders are missing, new figures show – The Guardian
‘A total of 396 registered sex offenders – who are supposed to be monitored by police and inform authorities if they change address – are missing across the UK, with some out of contact with police for more than a decade, according to freedom of information responses to the Press Association.’
The Guardian, 10th March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Police tackle serious crimes with ‘slap on wrist’, MPs warn – BBC News
‘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
Their crimes provoke repulsion but it is our duty to rehabilitate sex offenders – The Guadian
‘In the wake of Stoke Mandeville’s report on Jimmy Savile, an award-winning project that works with prisoners has cut reoffending rates by 83%.’
The Guardian, 1st March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Sixty five young adults and teenagers have died in prison in last four years, report finds – The Independent
‘Sixty five young adults and teenagers have died in prison in four years, a new report reveals.’
The Independent, 2nd March 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Serious case review slams police failure in serial abuse of Oxford girls – The Guardian
‘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
