“Courts should have the power to punish people breaching the Data Protection Act with prison sentences, MPs on the justice select committee have said.”
BBC News, 27th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Automatic jail sentences will be introduced for 16 and 17-year-olds who commit knife crimes in a sweeping law and order package announced last night by Kenneth Clarke, the Justice Secretary.”
The Independent, 27th October 2011
Souce: www.independent.co.uk
“The separation of judiciary and legislature will bring about a more confrontational relationship between judges and ministers.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Drug dealers from Liverpool and London who plotted to flood the UK with £4bn of cocaine have been jailed.”
BBC News, 26th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The number of foreign prisoners who have come to the end of their sentences but cannot be deported has passed the 5,000 mark, despite repeated pledges by Home Office ministers to speed up removals.”
The Guardian, 27th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three senior judges have granted permission to the Guardian to challenge a court’s decision to keep secret a set of documents.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Morrissey spoke of his ‘delight’ after a judge ruled yesterday that he had the right to sue the music magazine NME over an article which he claims branded him as a racist.”
The Independent, 27th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two years after its founding, five supreme court justices explain how they reach judgments of national significance.”
The Guardian, 25th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A teenage mother has lost her fight to be allowed to bring up the daughter she gave birth to when she was just 14 years old.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Ken Clarke, the justice secretary, is heading for a fresh clash with his cabinet colleague, Theresa May and Tory backbenchers after publicly criticising moves to impose mandatory prison sentences on teenagers found with a knife.”
The Guardian, 25th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal is being urged to overturn the convictions of three men who killed their wives in the first appeals after a change to murder laws.”
BBC News, 25th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The supreme court, the highest court of appeal in the UK, is two years old. The Guardian’s legal affairs correspondent, Owen Bowcott, gained exclusive access to the court and questioned the justices about their decisions, their democratic credentials, and whether or not they represent modern British society.”
The Guardian, 25th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A High Court test case has been launched to tackle the ‘biggest robbery’ from the pension payouts to British pensioners, unions have claimed. The head of Britain’s largest civil service union sets out the case against the change in pension indexation from the retail price index to the consumer price index.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The need for a free press has been proved over and over again by the revelation of major public scandals which would not otherwise have come to light. The disclosure by the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian of dishonest expenses claims by members of parliament and the hacking of telephones and emails are two egregious examples.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 25th October 2011
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Legal aid cuts aimed at saving £350m a year will result in courts being deluged by people without lawyers and will restrict access to justice, some of the country’s most senior judges have told the Guardian.”
The Guardian, 25th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A north London woman who stabbed her husband during a row over what to watch on TV has been cleared of his murder.”
BBC News, 25th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lady Hale is the only woman justice to sit in the supreme court. She longs for female company – perhaps another three women judges, and is tired of being told that it is only ‘a matter of time’.”
The Guardian, 25th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Cambridge student was ordered to pay thousands of pounds in compensation to a female undergraduate after he fell while carrying her and crushed her pelvis while drunk.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A mother of four who admitted biting her boyfriend’s testicles during a drunken row has been warned she is facing jail.”
BBC News, 25th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Too many babies have been killed or seriously injured through child abuse because of failings by the authorities that are repeated across the country, a report has found.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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