‘The introduction of the next generation of GPS tracking of offenders, including convicted paedophiles, has been delayed for at least another 12 months, the Ministry of Justice has announced.’
The Guardian, 14th July 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (Coll) v Secretary of State for Justice [2015] EWCA Civ 328; [2015] WLR (D) 157
‘In providing approved premises for women released from prison on licence, the Secretary of State for Justice had not discriminated directly under section 13 of the Equality Act 2010 or indirectly under section 19.’
WLR Daily, 31st March 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, gave guidance in respect of the effect of changes in the law upon the sentencing of dangerous offenders.’
WLR Daily, 4th March 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Five murderers who were released on licence from their life sentences have killed again in the past four years.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Murderers, rapists and other life prisoners are being allowed out on day release without being properly risk assessed, two watchdogs have warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“This month we saw eight-month sentences handed out to Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce for perverting the course of justice. Both had been warned to ‘be under no illusion as to the likely sentence’ – the judicial way of saying, ‘expect a custodial sentence’. Of course, the lawyers would tell you that this was inevitable as the courts treat such crimes severely.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has upheld the principle of whole life sentences for the most dangerous of offenders, saying it does not breach human rights.”
BBC News, 21st November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Five leading judges are to rule on appeals by four convicted criminals against their whole-life tariffs.”
BBC News, 21st November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 published
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“Judges will not have to impose new ‘two strikes and you’re out’ mandatory life jail terms on all dangerous repeat criminals because of human rights laws, the Government has admitted.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A senior judge has railed at the UK border system asking ‘do we let anyone in?’ after a dangerous Lithuanian sex offender was able to enter the country and then rape a woman.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Home Office was plunged into crisis last night after it wrongly allowed violent foreign prisoners to be freed into the community.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th August 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Hundreds of dangerous offenders, including those assessed as likely killers, are being released into society under a scheme condemned by the probation service as ‘scandalous’.”
The Guardian, 8th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Thousands of dangerous criminals are handed community sentences every year despite being a high risk to the public, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th January 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“For the first time, numbers relating to the MAPPA status and management levels of all MAPPA offenders living in England and Wales can now be viewed online.”
Ministry of Justice, 27th October 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Fresh concerns about the way dangerous offenders are monitored in the community were raised today by a damning investigation into probation service failings after the torture and murder of two French students in London last year.”
The Guardian, 2nd November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Blunders in the supervision of violent drug addict Dano Sonnex meant he was free to kill French students Gabriel Ferez and Laurent Bonomo last year.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th October 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Suspects released on bail committed more than 30,000 crimes in one year, including murders and rapes, it can be disclosed.”
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Daily Telegraph, 15th September 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Specification of Particularly Serious Crimes) Order 2004, which was made under s 72(4)(a) of the 2002 Act and listed a number of criminal offences which would be presumed, irrespective of the sentence which had been imposed by the court, to fulfil the requirements of art 33(2) of the Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, thereby allowing the United Kingdom to refoule someone who had been convicted of one of the offences despite there being a risk to his life or freedom on his return, was ultra vires and unlawful.”
WLR Daily, 29th June 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The parents of murdered French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez are to sue British authorities over systematic failures in the justice system that contributed to their sons’ deaths.”
The Guardian, 5th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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