“All driving test candidates will have to sit the written theory exam in either English or Welsh after a ban on foreign languages by the UK government.”
BBC News, 11th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two men who pleaded guilty to more than 50 ‘appalling’ child sex offences will not face trial over 14 other allegations, prosecutors have said.”
BBC News, 14th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Magistrates court closes to all other cases as people aged 23 to 71 face conspiracy charges over fraud involving repair garage.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Court of Appeal found the 21 month sentence given to Bernard Collins for conspiracy to defraud unduly lenient and increased it to 3 ½ years.”
Attorney General’s Office, 24th September 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/ago
“A man who admitted driving a gang to a petrol station where a cash machine was blown up has been jailed.”
BBC News, 25th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A court clerk from Liverpool who helped more than 70 motorists falsify their
driving records and escape bans has been jailed for six years.”
BBC News, 13th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A British al-Qaeda suspect still faces extradition to America despite winning a human rights battle, the Home Secretary has vowed.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two members of a family of fraudsters who conned elderly investors in a £4.5 million fine wine scam have been jailed for a total of ten-and-a-half years.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Driving licences are being stripped from dozens of people after an interpreter who gave Chinese theory test candidates the answers.”
BBC News, 8th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Giles Bedloe, who acted as junior counsel in SFO v Williams reviews the recent statements of the Court of Appeal in Attorney General’s Reference Nos. 7 & 8 of 2012 and R v Levene [2013] EWCA 709.”
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Dyers Chambers, 11th July 2013
Source: www.dyerschambers.com
“Four men have been found guilty of causing a series of nail bomb explosions at houses in Staffordshire.”
BBC News, 30th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two brothers have been jailed for their roles in a ‘professionally planned and executed’ million-pound armed raid at Selfridges, in which the gang dressed in burqas.”
The Guardian, 22nd July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Eleven men have been jailed for their roles in a conspiracy to supply cocaine and firearms from a bunker hidden under garden decking in a Somerset village.”
BBC News, 19th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Chinese translator in Birmingham has been jailed for helping 200 learner drivers cheat on theory exams.”
BBC News, 16th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who was involved in a plot to rob and murder soul singer Joss Stone has been jailed for 18 years.”
BBC News, 9th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v Austin (Herbert): [2013] EWCA Crim 1028; [2013] WLR (D) 257
“It was the Crown’s responsibility to carry out the duties of disclosure. Judicial involvement could only properly be triggered by an application under the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 by the prosecutor or by the defence. There was no provision for a trial judge to superintend the decisions of disclosure made by the prosecution on his own motion by inspecting unused material himself.”
WLR Daily, 27th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) has featured prominently in the news in recent weeks, both as regards undercover police officers/’covert human intelligence sources’ and as regards the phone-hacking scandal.”
Panopticon, 28th June 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“Five gang members, including a 15-year-old boy, have been jailed for murdering a painter and decorator in London.”
BBC News, 28th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Members of an Oxford gang who groomed vulnerable young girls for sex, repeatedly raping them and threatening to kill them if they told anyone, have been jailed for life.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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“Key members of one of Merseyside’s most notorious crime families are behind bars after admitting to running a multi-million pound drug smuggling and money-laundering racket.”
The Guardian, 14th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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