“Thousands more teenagers are being dragged into the criminal justice system for petty offences, threatening to set them on the path to adult crime, ministers are warned today. The numbers of under-18s being convicted or formally cautioned has almost doubled in some parts of the country, the Institute for Public Policy Research has disclosed.”
The Independent, 23rd June 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Louise Casey has put forward drastic proposals to improve our justice system – but are they too radical?”
The Independent, 19th June 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Changes must be made to the criminal justice system because it is perceived by the public as ‘distant, unaccountable and unanswerable’, a year-long Government review has concluded.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A shakeup of the youth justice system is being planned by ministers that would see a failing punitive policy replaced by a more welfare-oriented, early-intervention approach to dealing with children in trouble. As part of a youth crime action plan to be published this summer, the Home Office has recommended that responsibility and funding for tackling youth crime – including local youth offending teams – should be moved to new, local authority-run ‘children’s trusts’.”
The Guardian, 17th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The aim of this study was to analyse what determines citizens’ confidence in the justice system, by framing levels of confidence in the wider European context. It asks whether levels of confidence reflect simply the performance of the justice system, or are shaped by other factors, such as personal characteristics or attitudes towards public institutions. This research therefore focuses on the broader societal context of these attitudes, and on the opinions of citizens in general, rather than just those of users of the justice system.”
Ministry of Justice, 11th June 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Law Reform, Victims and Witnesses Bill aims to deliver a more effective, transparent and responsive justice system for victims, witnesses and the wider public.”
Ministry of Justice, 9th June 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A new approach to youth justice was promised by ministers yesterday in which equal weight would be given to prevention, enforcement and the rehabilitation of young offenders.”
The Times, 9th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Ministerial Champion for Women in the Criminal Justice System, Maria Eagle MP, today launched a framework setting out the national strategy for delivering services to female offenders.”
Ministry of Justice, 30th May 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Cherie Blair has attacked the government’s handling of the criminal justice system by accusing Britain’s jails of failing to protect the public. In an outspoken speech that has drawn a strong rebuttal from the Ministry of Justice, Blair, a judge and QC, said at a human rights seminar that Britain had a ‘factory farm attitude to imprisonment’.”
The Guardian, 11th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
” The criminal justice system was condemned for its ‘culture of complacency’ tonight (28th April).”
The Independent, 28th April 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
” A woman who saw her husband kicked to death by a gang of teenagers outside their house in Cheshire told MPs that the courts system was ‘utterly disgraceful’.”
The Times, 22nd April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Justice and the public interest seem to come a poor second to targets that the Director of Public Prosecutions is insisting on.”
The Times, 22nd April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Regina (Corner House Research and Another) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office
Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
“The rule of law required that an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office into bribery and corruption should be discontinued only by the independent judgment of the director of that office and not in response to a threat by a foreign power.”
The Times, 16th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Eighteen months after the Serious Fraud Office abandoned the BAE inquiry, two high court judges yesterday ruled the decision unlawful in a judgment that was stinging in its criticism of both the SFO and the British government for caving in to pressure from Saudi Arabia. The legal action was brought by the anti-bribery pressure group Corner House Research and the Campaign Against Arms Trade. Here are edited extracts from the summary judgment published yesterday.”
The Guardian, 11th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Bar Council, which represents over 15,000 barristers in England and Wales, has today urged members of the House of Lords to amend further a key provision of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, which is currently being considered in the Upper House.”
The Bar Council, 2nd April 2008
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“Jack Straw has given a lecture at the Royal Society of Arts on public confidence in the criminal justice system.”
Ministry of Justice, 26th March 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Further fundamental reform of the criminal justice system is crucial if the government is to overcome a lack of public confidence, Gordon Brown has been warned by his own strategy unit.”
The Guardian, 24th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The former lord chief justice, Lord Woolf, has launched a stinging attack on the government’s criminal justice and prison policy, blaming it for allowing prisons to get so crowded that offenders have little chance to reform and abandon crime.”
The Guardian, 17th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Ministry of Justice has released a draft report that was prepared in 2003/04 by three criminal justice inspectorates following a joint inspection of the Crown Court … Although the report was not published at the time, and remains in draft format, a recent decision by the Information Commissioner has identified a genuine public interest in the disclosure of the report.”
Ministry of Justice, 4th March 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
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