Legal aid in England five times as generous as rest of Europe – Daily Telegraph
“Legal aid in England and Wales is five times as generous as the average in Europe, figures show.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Tony Blair’s ‘disastrous’ wars to blame for secret courts, says Ken Clarke – The Guardian
“Ken Clarke has blamed Tony Blair’s ‘disastrous war on terror’ for the need to introduce secret courts to protect sensitive intelligence material.”
The Guardian, 19th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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Man with locked-in syndrome prepares to appeal for right to assisted death – The Guardian
“Lawyers for a man with locked-in syndrome, who says his life is intolerable and wants help to die, are to take his case to the appeal court within weeks and are then prepared to go to the highest court in the land, the supreme court, if necessary.”
The Guardian, 20th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
HRH the Prince of Wales: advocacy of an ordinary man – Panopticon
“The Upper Tribunal’s judgment in Evans v IC and Others (Seven Government Departments) [2012] UKUT 313 (AAC) (Mr Justice Walker, Professor John Angel and Suzanne Cosgrave), handed down yesterday, has received extensive media coverage – unsurprisingly so, given the subject matter (Prince Charles’ correspondence with government departments) and the requester (Rob Evans of the Guardian). The judgment is stupendously long (65 pages, plus 3 open annexes). Here are the salient points.”
Panopticon, 19th September 2012
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
The Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property: Where next? – House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
The Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property: Where next? (PDF)
House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, September 2012
Source: www.parliament.uk
Facing Up To Offending: Use of restorative justice in the criminal justice system – Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary
“The aim of this review was to identify the benefits of restorative justice practices across the criminal justice system. It was a joint inspection, carried out by HMIC, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation, Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons.”
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, 18th September 2012
Source: www.hmic.gov.uk
Command Papers – official-documents.gov.uk
Evaluation: How can we measure access to justice for individual consumers? – Legal Services Board
Evaluation: How can we measure access to justice for individual consumers? (PDF)
Presentation made by LSB Research Project Manager at the LSRC conference.
Legal Services Board, September 2012
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
Access to transactional justice: A comparison of consumer responses to transactional and justiciable problems – Legal Services Board
Presentation made by LSB Head of Development and Research at the LSRC conference
Legal Services Board, September 2012
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
Disabled prisoners’ lives put at risk by poor care and treatment in jail – The Guardian
“The plight of a man who had to be rushed to hospital hours after arriving in jail highlights the limitations of prison care.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The UK and Strasbourg: a victim fantasy – UK Human Rights Blog
“Another defeat for the United Kingdom in Strasbourg yesterday. In James, Wells and Lee v. the United Kingdom, a chamber of the Court’s Fourth Section held that indeterminate sentences of imprisonment for public protection infringed Article 5 of the Convention.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th September 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Teenage victims of domestic violence targeted as definition is extended – The Guardian
“The official definition of domestic violence is to be changed from March to ensure that thousands of teenage victims who are abused while in a relationship get the help and support they need, ministers are to announce today. It is also to be widened to explicitly include ‘coercive control’, which is defined as complex patterns of abuse by one partner using power and psychological control over another, such as financial, verbal abuse or enforced social isolation.”
The Guardian, 19th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The disappeared’: prisoners on indeterminate sentences – The Guardian
“The European court of human rights has ruled that indeterminate prison sentences (IPPs) breached prisoner’s human rights. There are over 6,000 IPP prisoners in England and Wales currently without a release date, leading a senior high court judge to describe them as ‘the disappeared’. 3,500 of these prisoners have already served their time but have no idea when they will leave prison.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Prince Charles’s letters to ministers should be disclosed, judges rule – The Guardian
“The government has for the first time been ordered to disclose copies of confidential letters that Prince Charles wrote to ministers.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Man jailed over extremist documents – The Independent
“A Muslim man with extremist literature on his computer was jailed for a year today.”
The Independent, 18th September 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Strasbourg court orders payout to woman evicted from Welsh caravan site – The Guardian
“The European court of human rights has ordered the government to pay £6,500 in compensation to a mother who was forced to leave a council’s Gypsy site in Wales.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Indefinite sentences ruled unlawful – The Independent
“Jailing dangerous prisoners indefinitely on the grounds of risk without giving them access to rehabilitation courses breaches their human rights, European judges ruled today.”
The Independent, 18th September 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
