“Lord Justice Leveson has revealed he will not impose tough Ofcom-style statutory regulation on newspapers, after almost nine months of evidence exposing what the newspaper industry has admitted were ‘appalling’ practices in the press.
The Guardian, 23rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Women who say they were let down by the Metropolitan police when they reported rape and sexual assault, including two who were attacked by the taxi driver John Worboys, are suing the force. The women are attempting to establish that police who fail to investigate such crimes properly are violating victims’ human rights.”
The Guardian, 20th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Fierce opposition in Whitehall to the disclosure of key documents relating to the invasion of Iraq, notably records of discussions between Tony Blair and George Bush, has meant the Chilcot inquiry will not now be able to publish its report for well over a year.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The newspaper industry’s bid to get proposals for a successor to the Press Complaints Commission officially rubber-stamped have been rebuffed by Lord Justice Leveson.The judge told the chairman of the PCC, Lord Hunt of Wirral, that he would not be giving him a ‘green light’ for the proposed new authority as this was not within the remit of the inquiry.”
The Guardian, 10th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“All private investigators in England and Wales should be licensed or at least registered, a committee of MPs has recommended.”
BBC News, 6th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Pressure from former senior Labour figures, including Tony Blair and Jack Straw, as well as Whitehall mandarins, to ‘turn back the clock’ on freedom of information legislation has been decisively rejected by an all-party group of MPs.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Prosecutors aim to decide by the end of this month whether they will bring phone-hacking charges against former News of the World journalists, the director of public prosecutions has told the Guardian.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s most senior law officer has appeared to undermine the government’s own argument that any inquiry into the current banking scandal needed to happen as quickly as possible.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government is to commission an independent review into how interbank lending rates are set, it has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 2nd July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a parliamentary review of the banking sector in the wake of the Barclays inter-bank lending furore.”
BBC News, 2nd July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Pressure was growing yesterday for the bankers involved in interest-rate fixing to face criminal charges.”
The Independent, 2nd July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The number of warnings issued about the behaviour of newspaper journalists harassing and intruding into the privacy of celebrities and members of the public is creeping back to the levels before the Milly Dowler phone hacking scandal erupted.”
The Guardian, 1st July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Nearly half of Britain’s care facilities are failing to provide adequate care for vulnerable adults, an official inquiry has concluded.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th June 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Lord Hunt, the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, risks a confrontation with Lord Justice Leveson next month when he is expected to present proposals for press reform aimed at sidestepping any fresh legislation.”
The Guardian, 17th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Human rights group Liberty is to apply for a judicial review into the inquest of a soldier who hanged herself after alleging two colleagues had raped her.”
BBC News, 11th June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police is reviewing 63 sex-crime investigations dating back more than two years after a detective on its specialist rape-inquiry team was arrested over allegations of falsifying crime records.”
The Independent, 9th June 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Metropolitan Police was not corrupt in its handling of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, an internal report says.”
BBC News, 31st May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“London mayor Boris Johnson has ordered a review of anti-racism reforms within the Metropolitan Police. It will look at measures put in place as a result of the race and faith inquiry – set up by the mayor in 2008.”
BBC News, 31st May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“David Lawley-Wakelin, the 49-year-old intruder, was taken into custody by police following the incident on Monday but released in the afternoon without charge. Resuming the inquiry at 2pm on Tuesday afternoon, Leveson announced that he was now taking the matter into his own hands. The judge’s intervention is exceptionally rare.”
The Guardian, 29th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf has called for the length and cost of public inquiries to be limited.”
The Lawyer, 25th May 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
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