“The Home Office clashed openly with judges on Monday when it criticised a decision to free on bail within days the radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada, who is accused of posing a grave threat to British national security.”
The Guardian, 6th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Prosecutors will be able to challenge crown court decisions to release suspected serious offenders out on bail after David Cameron announced a change in the law yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A woman who microwaved a 10-week-old kitten to death has been found guilty of causing it unnecessary suffering.”
BBC News, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The director of public prosecutions has said he would welcome a right to appeal against crown court judges’ decisions to grant bail. Keir Starmer last week met the parents of nurse Jane Clough, who was stabbed to death by her ex-partner, to discuss their campaign to amend bail laws.”
The Guardian, 23rd October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A barber shaved the word ‘fool’ in 1in letters on the back of the head of a man with severe learning difficulties, a court has been told.”
The Guardian, 14th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“More than 1,400 people have appeared in court in connection with the riots that spread across England’s towns and cities two weeks ago, new figures show.”
BBC News, 23rd August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Senior Metropolitan police officers devised a policy of holding all people arrested on riot-related offences in custody and recommending that the courts also refuse bail after they were charged, according to a leaked ‘prisoner processing strategy’ that lawyers argue could pave the way for a mass legal challenge.”
The Guardian, 22nd August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related link: Operation Withern’s prisoner processing strategy
“Much controversy has been raised by the sentencing meted out to some of those charged with offences committed during the recent disorder. Many cases have already been sentenced either in the Magistrates’ Court. A lesser number of cases have been dealt with by the Crown Court. (Given the short time between committal to Crown Court and sentence, the latter would be guilty pleas).”
Legal Week, 22nd August 2011
Source: www.legalweek.com
“Many of those charged with riot offences from last week have been refused bail by magistrates.”
The Guardian, 12th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Amid the present – understandably febrile – state of public opinion we are hearing, as we often do in these circumstances, calls to short-circuit the cumbersome processes of the law in order to bring the rampaging rioters and looters to justice. The prime minister is reported as saying that a ‘major police operation’ is under way to track down looters caught on CCTV ‘picture by picture’, and that ‘phony concerns about human rights’ issues won’t stop them being published. He wants anyone convicted of violent disorder to be sent to prison.”
The Guardian, 11th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (BB) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission [2011] EWHC 2129 (Admin); [2011] WLR (D) 272
“Proceedings before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission to determine the immigration bail conditions of a person subject to a deportation order were interim proceedings in the deportation proceedings or ancillary to them. Article 6.1 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms did not apply to the bail proceedings.”
WLR Daily, 2nd August 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (BB) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission [2011] EWHC 2129 (Admin); [2011] WLR (D) 272
“Proceedings before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission to determine the immigration bail conditions of a person subject to a deportation order were interim proceedings in the deportation proceedings or ancillary to them. Article 6.1 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms did not apply to the bail proceedings.”
WLR Daily, 2nd August 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“An appeal judge has said a leading Israeli Arab activist, who was detained in London on the home secretary’s orders, should remain on bail pending the outcome of legal proceedings.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The home secretary, Theresa May, is to ask MPs to pass an emergency bill to resolve the police bail crisis amid warnings from defence lawyers that it amounts to a ‘smash and grab raid’ to boost police powers.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The supreme court seemed to be exercising powers it does not have when it offered to consider suspending the bail ruling”
The Guardian, 6th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Law Society has urged the home secretary to consider safeguards to the emergency bail legislation about to go through Parliament to prevent abuse of the bail system by police.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 6th July 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The supreme court has dismissed an application from the police to suspend a ruling that triggered a bail crisis, leaving the legal position of 85,000 suspects in doubt.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Emergency legislation designed to reverse a controversial judgement on police bail will go before MPs on Thursday.”
BBC News, 4th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Suspected paedophiles, rapists and violent offenders will have their bail conditions dropped as early as this week, unless the police are successful in suspending a high court ruling.”
The Guardian, 2nd July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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