‘A London charity says only 3.9% of sexual assaults are reported by male victims due to a lack of specialist help and perceived stigma.’
BBC News, 17th November 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The proportion of rape reports to police that led to a charge fell sharply in 2014/15, according to new official figures.’
The Guardian, 5th November 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
”Archaic’ language on violent crime dating back more than 150 years must be updated, says Law Commission.’
Daily Telegraph, 3rd November 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The 2015 statutory onslaught on criminal lawyers continued through the summer. On 17 July, section 28 and schedule 5 to the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 were brought into force.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 26th October 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The first substantial increase in the murder rate for some years – up by 44 to 569 in the year to June in England and Wales – lies buried in a set of statistics that illustrate the changing nature of crime in an increasingly digital world.’
The Guardian, 15th October 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘There were more than five million incidents of fraud in England and Wales in the last year, estimates suggest.’
BBC News, 15th October 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Legalising cannabis would raise taxes worth hundreds of millions of pounds and produce large savings for the criminal justice system, a private analysis for the Treasury has concluded.’
The Independent, 13th October 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Anti-Muslim hate crimes will be recorded as a separate category by all police forces in England and Wales, the prime minister has said.’
BBC News, 13th October 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Gambling operators would face practical difficulties in adhering to new anti-crime controls proposed by the British Gambling Commission, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 7th October 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Part 3 of the Immigration Bill gives a host of new, wide powers to immigration officers.
A person with leave to enter arrives in at the airport. Schedule 19(1) and (2) – the first section of Part 3 – gives immigration officers the power to curtail leave, rather to simply determine whether leave has been given and act accordingly. So someone arriving in the UK even with the appropriate leave will now have a lingering uncertainty as to whether they will be allowed in. This is likely to affect few migrants, but is indicative of the greater powers given to immigration officers throughout the Bill.’
Free Movement, 1st October 2015
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
‘More than 30,000 alleged crimes linked to schools were reported to police in 2014, a BBC investigation has found. The figure – for England, Wales and Northern Ireland -is equivalent to 160 allegations per school day. Theft and violent crime were the most common types of offence to be reported.’
BBC News, 24th September 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Drones operated by organised crime gangs pose an increasing threat to security in Britain’s prisons by offering a new route to smuggle drugs and potentially firearms into the hands of criminals, senior officials have admitted.’
The Guardian, 16th September 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina v Bell [2015] EWCA Crim 1426; [2015] WLR (D) 371
‘Where a defendant was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for an offence of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility which had taken place 14 years earlier (and before the coming into force of the Criminal Justice Act 2003), article 7.1 of the Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms did not prohibit the minimum term imposed from being a heavier penalty than the one that was applicable at the time the criminal offence was committed.’
WLR Daily, 27th August 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘In the wake of the Ashley Madison hacking affair, Matthew Richardson, a barrister at Henderson Chambers, considers the criminal law implications and looks at how computer crime legislation is developing to deal with these types of issues.’
Full story
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 4th September 2015
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for 16 weeks for posting sexually explicit photographs of a woman on social media.’
Full story
BBC News, 19th August 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Taking drugs is a human right, according to a cross-party group of MPs and peers who want to legalise the possession, purchase and growing of drugs.’
The Independent, 19th August 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘This case concerned the application of the law in relation to future conduct, in particular, the role of the judicial review procedure in determining what precisely is meant by the prohibition on the selling of live animals under the Pet Animals Act 1951.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 4th August 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Prostitution should be fully decriminalised because attempts to control the sex trade are ineffective and a waste of money, an academic report published today argues.’
The Independent, 6th August 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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