“A civilian police worker has been jailed for three years for throwing scalding water over a prisoner in a police station cell.”
The Guardian, 8th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Planned reforms to sentencing policy could lead to criminals spending too little time behind bars, according to several top judges.”
BBC News, 7th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A lawyer at a leading civil liberties firm has expressed fears for the future of direct action protest after the mass arrest of UK Uncut activists during last Saturday’s anti-cuts demonstrations in London.”
The Guardian, 30th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Drug runners and small–scale dealers could escape prison even if caught with a 50–gram bag of cocaine or heroin or dozens of Ecstasy pills, under planned new guidance for courts.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th March 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The unlawful exercise by the Secretary of State of the power to detain foreign national prisoners gave rise to a private law action for the tort of false imprisonment without the need for proof of damage on the part of the prisoners, even though it could be demonstrated that they could and would still have been detained if the power had been lawfully exercised. However, in those circumstances the prisoners had suffered no loss or damage and were entitled to no more than nominal damages.”
WLR Daily, 23rd March 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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“The routine use of full searches will stop across the secure estate, there will be a review of the criteria used to separate young people in custody to manage problems that arise, complaints will be handled more fairly and effectively and work will be undertaken with the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and the Samaritans to improve the young people’s access to helpline services.”
Youth Justice Board, 1st March 2011
Source: www.yjb.gov.uk
“MPs are to debate the government’s Protection of Freedoms bill later, which ministers claim will protect millions of people in England and Wales ‘from unwarranted state intrusion in their private lives’.”
BBC News, 1st March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Hundreds of foreign prisoners are held indefinitely after they have served their criminal sentences. Harriet Grant investigates.”
The Guardian, 25th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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“The continued holding of the last British resident at Guantanamo Bay is making a ‘mockery of justice’, human rights campaigners have said.”
BBC News, 12th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Minister confirms government will not extend power to detain terror suspects for up to 28 days without charge when it lapses on Monday after urgent question by Ed Balls.”
The Guardian, 20th January 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The home secretary, Theresa May, faces fresh embarrassment over the much-delayed review of counter-terrorism powers after the Home Office confirmed that the police power to detain terror suspects for up to 28 days without charge will lapse on midnight on Monday.”
The Guardian, 19th January 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman who went on hunger strike in protest at her detention in the Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre claims she has been silenced by the state after being held in a prison without charge for almost a year.”
The Guardian, 16th January 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A high court judge has ruled that two mothers and their children were unlawfully detained at Yarl’s Wood immigration centre after dawn raids on their homes last year.”
The Guardian, 11th January 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre will close to children with immediate effect today, following a review of the detention of children and family returns by the government working with key partners.”
UK Border Agency, 16th December 2010
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The Coalition government is preparing to cut the limit for terrorism suspects to be held before charge to 14 days — against the advice of senior lawyers — it can be disclosed.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th November 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“More than half of young offenders believe detention does nothing to stop them going back to crime, a study has revealed.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th November 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The power of detention contained in s 139(1) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 was not limited to cases in which the goods in question were goods on which duty had not in fact been paid, but also covered cases in which there were reasonable grounds for suspecting that duty might not have been paid on the goods.”
WLR Daily, 5th November 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A high court challenge to bring to an immediate end the detention of children in immigration removal centres was launched today.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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