“Journalists will be able to anonymously submit evidence under oath as part of proposals set to be introduced by Lord Justice Leveson’s inquiry into phone hacking and press ethics.”
The Guardian, 21st October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The home secretary should lose the power to intervene on human rights grounds in extradition cases, an official judge-led inquiry has recommended.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Leveson inquiry into press regulation and media standards will not start hearing evidence from witnesses until November. It had hoped to get under way in October but will now start ‘before the second week in November’.”
The Guardian, 13th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A two year inquiry will be launched that will investigate gang-related sexual exploitation of British children amid fears more than 10,000 young people are being abused.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Jonathan Djanogly, the justice minister, has admitted for the first time to MPs that inquiries had been launched by his own department and the Cabinet Office following an investigation by the Guardian that revealed he could personally profit from changes he was piloting in the Commons.”
The Guardian, 11th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The editor of Private Eye told peers on Tuesday that the sex lives of well-known figures can be a legitimate subject of journalistic investigation.”
The Guardian, 11th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Not every supreme court justice need be a judge – or even a barrister.”
The Guardian, 11th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lincolnshire police will conduct ‘inquiries’ after a judge criticised a police officer for handling her own case when she fell victim to a flasher.”
BBC News, 10th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Oral evidence in the first part of the inquiry into media ethics and phone hacking could start next month, Lord Leveson said today.”
The Independent, 4th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two experts on banking and financial services law have been invited to make presentations to the Leveson inquiry as part of its bid to come up with a new model for press regulation in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.”
The Guardian, 26th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The new Metropolitan Police commissioner has said the force’s relationship with the media ‘has gone too far’.”
BBC News, 15th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Durham Police have launched a review of the Metropolitan Police’s phone-hacking inquiry, Scotland Yard has announced.”
BBC News, 15th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The parents of Madeleine McCann, actor Hugh Grant and Harry Potter creator JK Rowling were named today as core participants in the first stage of the inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The British soldiers responsible for the death of Baha Mousa must face prosecution in the light of the damning public inquiry findings, lawyers for his family said.”
The Independent, 8th September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Asking detainees if they have any complaints about their treatment and letting prison inspectors visit battlefield holding centres were among the 73 recommendations made by the Baha Mousa inquiry chairman, Sir William Gage.”
The Guardian, 8th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The 1,400 page final report on the inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa has been published today after three years of hearings. The chairman of the inquiry, retired Court of Appeal judge Sir William Gage, has condemned members of the 1st Battalion The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment for their ‘lack of moral courage’ to report abuse and the use of banned interrogation after Mousa died of 93 injuries in British army custody in Basra in 2003.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 8th September 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Related link: The Report of the Baha Mousa Inquiry
“An innocent Iraqi civilian died in British Army custody after suffering ‘an appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence’, a public inquiry concluded today.”
The Independent, 8th September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An unprecedented, two-year public inquiry into the conduct of British soldiers in Iraq is expected to report stinging criticism of senior army officers and their legal advisers, and highlight the failure to pass orders down the chain of command.”
The Guardian, 8th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An urgent review has been ordered into the conduct of police in West Yorkshire who took a murder trial witness to a brothel and allowed him to take drugs.”
BBC News, 8th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks is set to give evidence alongside several key victims of press intrusion as the first witnesses in the judicial inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal.”
The Guardian, 6th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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