“The prisons system in England and Wales is in crisis, reformers said today, as they called for drastic cuts in the number of criminals jailed.”
The Independent, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An estimated 1,000 children are imprisoned on remand every year but later found innocent at trial, despite guidance which states that children should only be jailed in exceptional circumstances.”
The Guardian, 17th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Why are we asking this now?
In the past few days, the issue of sentencing has come to the fore in three high-profile cases, culminating in an announcement yesterday by the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, that the sentences handed down to Baby P’s killers were not unduly lenient and therefore she would not be referring the case to Court of Appeal.”
The Independent, 17th June 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
(HR) (Portugal) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Court of Appeal
“Time spent in jail in the United Kingdom by a national of the European Economic Area was not counted when calculating whether he had live in the country continuously for at least ten years before the decision to deport him.”
Times Law Reports, 15th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A British man who spent more than two years in an Iraqi jail has told the Guardian that he was abandoned by the British government and feared it would leave him to die.”
The Guardian, 29th May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
HR (Portugal) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 371; [2009] WLR(D) 144
“The time during which an European Economic Area national was serving a sentence of imprisonment in the United Kingdom was not to be included when calculating whether he had resided for a continuous period of at least ten years prior to a decision to deport him.”
WLR Daily, 6th May 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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