“The Government is looking at using ‘coercion’ tactics as a way of introducing the controversial ID card scheme, a leaked memo suggests.”
The Times, 28th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An official review of internet sites which encourage suicide is expected to include an examination of a recent cluster of deaths in south Wales.”
BBC News, 27th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government’s attempt to reform the system for choosing judges to create a more diverse judiciary is failing to break the stranglehold of privately-educated white males over the high court bench.”
The Guardian, 28th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Violent crime committed by children and teenagers has gone up by a third in only three years, an investigation by The Sunday Telegraph revealed last week. Total offences climbed steadily from 184,474 in 2003 to 222,750 in 2006. Most of these are dealt with by overstretched youth courts in possession of limited sentencing powers. Patrick Sawer reports from the ‘frontline’ of youth justice, as magistrates, lawyers and officials struggle to cope with rising levels of youth crime.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th January 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Murders of children by other children have tripled in three years, as more of the nation’s youth get drawn into a deadly world of guns and knives.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th January 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A court hearing tomorrow, being described by lawyers as unprecedented in UK legal history, will decide whether the death of the man who took the last photograph of George Bernard Shaw must remain a mystery.”
The Independent, 27th January 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The UK’s first family drug and alcohol court is due to open in London with the aim of helping parents beat addictions so they can keep their children.”
BBC News, 28th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government was last night accused of squandering more than £1.5bn taxpayers’ money after it emerged that it is to dismantle its flagship body set up to reduce reoffending, as part of a wide-ranging review of the criminal justice system.”
The Observer, 27th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jack Straw, the Secretary of State for Justice, is to unveil plans to merge the prison and probation services into a US-style ‘Department of Corrections’ to try to get to grips with sentencing and the management of offenders in custody and in the community.”
The Independent, 27th January 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Gordon Brown is facing a revolt by cabinet ministers who are demanding a free vote over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, claiming that the ethical issues it raises are matters of conscience.”
The Observer, 27th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Thousands of asylum-seekers who are routinely detained in fast-track removal centres while their claims are being considered by the Home Office could win the right to freedom when judges in Europe deliver a landmark ruling tomorrow.”
The Independent, 28th January 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Extensive coverage last week of the suspected ‘copycat’ suicides of seven young people in Bridgend, south Wales – and the publication in one paper earlier this month of the picture of a young City banker as he leapt to his death from a hotel window – have reignited concerns about how suicide is reported.”
The Guardian, 28th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hundreds of people with mental health problems are dying while detained in hospital but their deaths are not being fully investigated.”
The Independent, 27th Janaury 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Concerns about data security have been raised after it emerged celebrities, Royals and MPs are blocked from submitting income tax returns online.”
BBC News, 26th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Labour Party has repeatedly failed to declare donations totalling more than £2.8 million to electoral regulators within the legal time limit, it emerged last night.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th January 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A high court judge today condemned the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, for her failure to follow the law in the ‘shocking’ handling of the case of a detained sex offender.”
The Guardian, 25th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ministers ordered a review into open prisons yesterday amid public outcry over the rape of a 16-year-old schoolgirl by a prisoner on the run.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th January 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The UK legal profession and leading human rights groups are calling on the Pakistani authorities to release and reinstate lawyers and judges imprisoned in Pakistan in the recent constitutional upheaval.”
The Times, 25th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Government’s new powers to force the handover of encryption keys could be vulnerable to a legal challenge under the Human Rights Act’s guarantee to a fair trial. People who refuse keys or passwords face up to five years in jail.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th January 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Court of Appeal has upheld the BBC’s right not to disclose an internal report about the broadcaster’s coverage of Israel.”
The Times, 25th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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