“The Chilcot inquiry is incapable of addressing the key issue of whether the invasion of Iraq was legal, senior judicial figures have said, adding to the controversy surrounding the inquiry’s legitimacy.”
The Guardian, 23rd November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A parliamentary inquiry into phone hacking by tabloid journalists may have been seriously misled, it emerged yesterday when lawyers acting for a Scotland Yard detective denied that he had ever claimed that messages to 6,000 people had been intercepted.”
The Independent, 16th November 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Tony Blair is set to give evidence in public to the Iraq war inquiry in the run-up to the next election, it was announced last night.”
The Guardian, 13th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The first public hearings at the long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war will take place next month, the panel’s chairman has announced.”
The Guardian, 29th October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A review into a hammer attack on a Wiltshire schoolboy was so flawed that it must be quashed, a judge has ruled.”
BBC News, 22nd October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A powerful committee of MPs is likely to hold a formal hearing into allegations that a government anti-extremism programme is being used to gather information on innocent Muslims.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Tony Blair will be called to give evidence to the Iraq war inquiry, its chairman confirmed today.”
The Independent, 30th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Opposition parties are set to press for the Iraq war inquiry to be held largely in public when the long-awaited probe is officially launched later.”
BBC News, 30th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (P) v Secretary of State for Justice
Court of Appeal
“A real and immediate risk to life was required to justify a self-harming young man’s request that the State investigate treatment he received while detained in a young offenders institution.”
The Times, 23rd July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The criminal justice system is ‘broken’ and ‘failing’ because decision-making is excessively centralised, according to a thinktank report published today.”
The Guardian, 20th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A major public inquiry into the death of an Iraqi civilian called Baha Mousa in British military custody with the former Queen’s Lancashire Regiment will begin on Monday.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The mother of a soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq has won the first round of a legal battle for an investigation into the use of the lightly armoured Snatch Land Rovers.”
The Times, 10th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The mother of a soldier killed in a Snatch Land Rover in Iraq will launch a legal challenge on Friday over the Government’s refusal to hold a public inquiry into the continued use of the lightly-armoured vehicles.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“News International was facing three fresh inquiries into the conduct of its journalists and executives following the Guardian’s disclosures that Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire paid £1m to keep secret the use of criminal methods to get stories.”
The Guardian, 10th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A paedophile housemaster recruited by another child molester abused pupils undetected for years, an inquiry found.”
BBC News, 9th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Directors will be legally forced to ensure good health and safety management and gangmaster licensing will be extended to the construction industry as the centrepiece of a hard-hitting government inquiry into the high number of fatalities on Britain’s building sites published today.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An official inquiry into the way the G20 demonstrations were policed is expected to call for urgent reform today, amid concerns that police are failing in their duty to facilitate lawful protest. ”
The Guardian, 7th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The defence secretary, Bob Ainsworth, has conceded the need for a fresh independent inquiry into the deaths of Iraqis in Basra in 2004 after allegations they were tortured and killed by British troops, the high court was told today.”
The Guardian, 6th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lord Mandelson will tell Parliament today that he has asked the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to investigate the collapse of MG Rover, the Midlands carmaker, four years ago.”
The Times, 6th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The government has given its strongest indication yet that it may back down over plans to hold the forthcoming Iraq inquiry in secret.”
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The Guardian, 21st June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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