‘MI5 grants its informants legal cover to participate in crimes that may extend to murder, torture and sexual assaults, a tribunal has heard.’
The Guardian, 4th October 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man who trafficked three children, including a 14-year-old girl, to use as drug dealers in a “county lines” ring has been jailed for 14 years in a landmark prosecution.’
The Independent, 4th October 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘This talk presents an overview of pseudoscience within therapeutic contexts in the twenty-first century, juxtaposed with the risks posed to public health and the criminal justice system. It identifies the adverse outcomes that may arise from specific psychotherapeutic treatments and popular pseudo-scientific beliefs. The justice response and published cases are briefly explored. This talk concludes by advancing the case for increased therapeutic regulation and justice safeguards.’
Date: 29th January 2019, 6.00-7.30pm
Location: IGLT, Whitehead Building
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
‘Sexual crime remains a matter of deep public concern and has received considerable scrutiny over the years. A pivotal event was the unprecedented reporting of sexual allegations that followed a TV documentary in October 2012 about the late Jimmy Savile leading to the Metropolitan Police forming Operation Yewtree. This talk seeks to place these events in context, to understand the factors that can impact upon the investigation and how it continues to shape the police approach to allegations reported sometimes years after the events. These types of allegation will always raise strong opinions among commentators. Some believe that such a serious crime as child abuse should always go before the courts regardless of time passed. There are others who state it is an affront to natural justice and that such prosecutions are unsafe. We will explore whether delays in reporting can secure safe and ethical prosecutions or inevitably lead to justice denied for the accused or the complainant.’
Date: 15th January 2019, 6.00-7.30pm
Location: IGLT, Whitehead Building
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
‘The Parole Board turned 50 in 2017 but it has recently found itself the subject of high profile stories about what appear to be dangerous and risky decisions to release high profile prisoners convicted of the most serious of crimes. Is this a new issue? How are these decisions made and how on earth can murderers, robbers or rapists ever be safely released to the community? What are the tools to achieve this and how much can Parole assessments be relied upon to predict risk?
In this talk prison lawyer Emma McClure lays out how the Parole Board operates in practice; the way risk assessments are conducted and the problems that exist in the current system in trying to make evidence-based decisions and the management of society’s most dangerous people within a problem-ridden criminal justice system.’
Date: 11th December 2018, 6.00-7.00pm
Location: IGLT, Whitehead Building
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
‘To inform a criminal investigation, police may ask an eyewitness to that crime to try to identify the perpetrator from a lineup. Eyewitnesses, however, have a bad reputation for being unreliable. That reputation is due to, in part, the fact that eyewitness researchers once viewed the relationship between the accuracy of an eyewitness’s initial identification and the confidence expressed in that identification as weak. Lab-based and field studies alike show that identifications made with high confidence are highly accurate whereas identifications made with low confidence are much less so. Confidence expressed during the initial procedure is therefore diagnostic of accuracy. In fact, it is by far the best predictor of accuracy. And when taken into account, the data challenge the longstanding notion that eyewitnesses are unreliable. The data also provide a way for the criminal justice system to improve the probative value of eyewitness evidence.’
Date: 27th November 2018, 6.00-7.30pm
Location: IGLT, Whitehead Building
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
‘A new specialist unit will identify and freeze bank accounts linked to organised crime behind bars, Justice Secretary David Gauke announced today.’
Ministry of Justice, 2nd October 2018
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
‘The world when the Legal Services Act was drawn up “simply does not exist in the same way now” and the inherent tensions in the Act are becoming “increasingly apparent”, the first paper from the independent review of legal regulation has concluded.’
Legal Futures, 4th October 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The ringleader of a gang who sprayed corrosive cleaning fluid in the face of a shopkeeper during a failed robbery has been jailed for ten years, with a further four years on licence.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 3rd October 2018
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘The wife of a foreign banker faces losing UK property worth millions of pounds unless she can explain the source of her wealth, following a judgment at the high court.’
The Guardian, 3rd October 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘”Shortcomings in security” outside the Houses of Parliament contributed to the death of a police officer during the Westminster attack, a coroner has concluded.’
The Independent, 3rd October 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A gossiping chiropractor faced a disciplinary hearing after he told a patient’s mother that her daughter was pregnant.’
Daily Telegraph, 3rd Otober 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘UK child protection organisations have called for Facebook to improve transparency on its site, after a new lawsuit in America claimed that it is being used to lure children into the sex trade. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) said Facebook should be forced to report how many child abusers it identifies online to help measure the scale of the problem.’
Daily Telegraph, 3rd Ocotber 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The government’s decision to cap the number of unaccompanied child refugees who can be brought into the UK has been upheld by the court of appeal. But three senior judges said there had been a breach of the “duty of fairness” in the process because those refused entry were not given any reasons for being denied permission.’
The Guardian, 3rd October 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man who threw acid across a packed London nightclub has lost an appeal against his 20-year jail sentence.’
BBC News, 3rd October 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A murder suspect has been extradited to the UK from Pakistan to face trial over a 2002 Yorkshire house fire that left eight people dead.’
The Independent, 3rd October 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘An effort to encourage lawyers to report on everyday proceedings in the family courts to compensate for lack of press interest is being piloted over the next nine months, it has emerged.’
Legal Futures, 3rd October 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘This case revolves around Carlton Clubs Ltd’s (“Carlton”) claims for repayment of overpaid VAT following the change in VAT treatment of income generated from bingo and gaming machines.’
UKSC Blog, 1st October 2018
Source: ukscblog.com
‘Visit Senate House Library’s Periodicals Room for talks and collection displays marking anniversaries of two important Parliamentary Acts – the centenary allowing women over 21 the right to stand for election as an MP and the 15 year anniversary of the repeal of Section 28, the anti-gay legislation.’
Date: 21st November 2018, 3.00-5.00pm
Location: Senate House Library, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
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