Doubts over DNA profile timing – BBC News
“Fresh doubts have emerged over proposals to limit how long the DNA profiles of innocent people can be held on the national database.”
BBC News, 25th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Metropolitan Police chief says fixed penalties undermine courts – The Times
“The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Britain’s most senior police officer, has criticised the increasing use of on-the-spot penalties, saying they undermine the authority of magistrates’ courts.”
The Times, 25th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Press regulator hints at less privacy protection for publicity-seeking celebs – OUT-LAW.com
“The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) will take into account how much of a celebrity’s private life they have chosen to expose in the past when ruling on new allegations of invasion of privacy, it has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th September 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
Lawyer for freed terrror suspect demands repeal of control orders – The Guardian
“Lawyers for a terror suspect set free this week by the home secretary called for the immediate repeal of the entire control order system today, saying his three-and-a-half year ordeal had done him and his family lasting psychological harm.”
The Guardian, 24th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Mabey & Johnson to be sentenced in bribery case – The Times
“A British company that bribed foreign officials to win business contracts and breached United Nations (UN) sanctions in Iraq is due to be sentenced tomorrow in the first prosecution of its kind in the UK.”
The Times, 24th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
‘I just want the truth’ – BBC News
“In April 2005 an unarmed man was shot dead by police as he sat in the back of a car in north London. Four years later Azelle Rodney’s mother is still waiting for an inquest to be held.”
BBC News, 25th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Law chief: too many people are locked up – The Independent
“Controversial public protection sentences and inadequate penal funding have combined to drive up the record numbers of people being kept in prisons, the president of the new Supreme Court has warned.”
The Independent, 25th September 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Revealed: the hidden army in UK prisons – The Guardian
“The number of former servicemen in prison or on probation or parole is now more than double the total British deployment in Afghanistan, according to a new survey. An estimated 20,000 veterans are in the criminal justice system, with 8,500 behind bars, almost one in 10 of the prison population.”
The Guardian, 24th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
New blow to terror control orders as second suspect released – The Times
“Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, has allowed a second terror suspect to be released from virtual house arrest rather than disclose ‘secret’ evidence against him.”
The Times, 24th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
£400,000 damages for family of woman who died in childbirth – The Independent
“The family of a woman who died in labour and never saw the son she had conceived after IVF treatment was awarded £410,000 damages today.”
The Independent, 24th September 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Police fined £40,000 for shooting ‘disaster’
“Thames Valley police force has been fined £40,000 after a firearms instructor, Pc David Micklethwaite, accidentally shot and nearly killed a former rifle marksman.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th September 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Three sent for trial in insider-dealing case – The Times
“An accountant and two lawyers accused of insider dealing by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) have been committed to stand trial at Southwark Crown Court.”
The Times, 23rd September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Punch death sentence ‘too short’ – BBC News
“The sister of a man who died after being punched by a 15-year-old boy in South Yorkshire has attacked the two-year sentence given to the teenager.”
BBC News, 23rd September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
The Business Rate Supplements (Rateable Value Condition) (England) Regulations 2009
The Business Rate Supplements (Transfers to Revenue Accounts) (England) Regulations 2009
The Energy Information (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009
The Ecodesign for Energy-Using Products (Amendment) Regulations 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
File sharing: how can the music industry get the public to pay up? – The Times
“Rock god versus pop diva — the music rights debate is producing some unexpected spectacles. Is file sharing creating a generation of people who expect never to pay for music or is it opening up a whole new audience who will save the industry?”
The Times, 24th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Food firm boss sold Tesco pies to Fortnum & Mason as organic – The Times
“The director of a food company that provided pies to Fortnum & Mason has been jailed for re-packaging cheap supermarket goods and claiming that they were organic.”
Full story
The Times, 24th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Coroner condemns Rye Hill jail where prisoner on suicide watch bled to death – The Guardian
“A coroner today (23 September) condemned ‘appalling and unacceptable conditions’ at a privately-run prison where an inmate on suicide watch was allowed to bleed to death. Aleksey Baranovsky, 33, a Ukrainian national, died in a blood-covered cell at HMP Rye Hill, Warwickshire, in June 2006.”
Full story
The Guardian, 23rd September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Since my son died we aren’t allowed to see our grandchildren – The Times
“A retired judge went to court over contact with his family. The hearing descended into a shouting match. He explains why the system is flawed.”
The Times, 24th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
