“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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.”
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The Times, 24th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“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.”
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The Guardian, 23rd September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“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
“Despite being in use in British courts for more than a 100 years, the ‘without prejudice’ rule is well known but not necessarily well understood.”
The Times, 24th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Internet campaigners whose advice on how to take your own life is used in an assisted suicide face possible prosecution, according to the new guidance published yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th September 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Keir Starmer has made the best of a difficult job. First, as widely trailed, he has decided that his assisted suicide guidelines must apply to England and Wales as well as to behaviour abroad. This is surely right: there is no moral difference between an act committed in Geneva and its replica in Hull.”
The Times, 24th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A controversial broadband tax ‘will be law before the next election’, according to Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms.”
BBC News, 23rd September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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