“Two men – Patrick Smith and Joseph Merceica – have been cleared of luring a businesman into a trap and killing him, following the conclusion of their fourth trial.
The House of Lords had initially ordered the men’s retrial after a juror at their second trial complained of being ‘badgered and intimidated’ by other jurors into delivering a guilty verdict. So what are the rules of the jury room?”
BBC News, 18th June 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
R (Pereira) v. HM Coroner for Inner South London and others
“A coroner’s power to adjourn an inquest under s 16(1)(b) of the Coroner’s Act 1988 was discretionary. Where a reason not to adjourn had been established, a decision to do so made in the exercise of that discretion could not be impugned by way of judicial review provided that the decision had been made rationally, taking into account all relevant matters and in the light of the state’s duty to investigate a death under art 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
WLR Daily, 14th June 2007
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
“The attorney general is to face a Commons select committee over his role in the BAE corruption controversy, the Guardian has learned. Lord Goldsmith will be questioned by the constitutional affairs committee over the decision to halt a Serious Fraud Office investigation into allegations the firm paid bribes to secure arms deals with Saudi Arabia.”
The Guardian, 18th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A giant electronic database containing sensitive information on all 11 million children in England will be open to at least 330,000 users when it launches next year, according to government guidance.”
The Guardian, 18th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Schools are to get the go-ahead to fingerprint pupils as young as five, in new measures to be approved by the Government.”
The Independent, 17th June 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Urgent talks between Ministry of Justice officials and chief constables are under way to use hundreds more police cells as emergency prison accommodation as the jail crisis intensifies.”
The Guardian, 18th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A government U-turn tomorrow will herald huge improvements in mental health treatment for young people. In a series of compromise changes to its controversial Mental Health Bill, the Government will curb the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on teenagers and ensure they do not have to share wards with adults, who are often disturbed and dangerous.”
The Independent, 17th June 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Britain’s highest court is to hear a case which could force the government to hold an independent inquiry into the way the attorney general reached his conclusion that the war in Iraq would be lawful. The law lords have agreed to hear an appeal by the mothers of two soldiers killed in Iraq, who argue that the government violated their sons’ right to life by rushing into war on inadequate legal grounds.”
The Guardian, 18th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government is to press ahead with plans to reform the rape laws in an attempt to increase the low conviction rate, despite strong opposition from the judges who will have to put them into effect, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 18th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government will agin try to push through powers to detain mentally ill people in England and Wales who have not committed crimes.”
BBC News, 17th June 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Fathers who fail to register their name on their child’s birth certificates should be fined, a think tank said on Saturday.”
Reuters, 16th June 2007
Source: www.reuters.com
“A ‘disastrous’ rift exists between the Government and the judiciary over anti-terrorism laws, a senior High Court judge has warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th June 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Making arrangements to obtain legal authority to deal with the financial affairs of a loved one suffering from mental incapacity will become much more complicated following a change in the law later this year, a leading solicitor said yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th June 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“One of Britain’s longest- running murder cases ended yesterday after five trials and two appeals with the acquittal of two men who faced charges of killing the television presenter Mark Levy.”
The Independent, 16th June 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Lord Woolf, the former lord chief justice of England and Wales, yesterday defended his £6,000 a day role as chairman of an independent committee set up to review arms maker BAE Systems’ business ethics, pledging a vigorous inquiry and dismissing any suggestion he had been appointed as ‘window dressing’.”
The Guardina, 16th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Dedicated teams of senior prosecutors are to be deployed in the UK’s honour killing hotspots in the wake of the failings exposed this week by the case of a young Kurdish woman murdered by her family.”
The Guardian, 16th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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