“A selfish estate agent put an innocent client through a terrifying court ordeal after he framed him in a bid to wriggle out of a road ban.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The case of the Cardiff Three – wrongly convicted of murder in 1992 – refuses to go away. Twenty years after a BBC Panorama investigation helped to clear the original men, the same team returns to investigate why the trial against the police officers accused of perverting the course of justice collapsed last year, and asks: is this the biggest scandal in British legal history?”
BBC Panorama, 13th August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The first prosecution under the Bribery Act 2010 to reach the Court of Appeal has arrived. However, it is perhaps not the high-profile scalp that the proponents of the Act might have wanted. I’m not too sure how much can be taken from the case that is of any wider application but nevertheless, it being ‘a first’, it may be of some interest. In any event the facts of the case are less dry than most.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 23rd July 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“A couple who covered up their son’s murder of his girlfriend at their Bournemouth home have been jailed.”
BBC News, 6th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The saga surrounding the former police chief Ali Dizaei has taken another astonishing turn after he was given permission for a second time to challenge his conviction for corruption.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In the immediate aftermath of the decision to prosecute Rebekah Brooks, her co-defendant and husband Charles Brooks has called the proceedings a witch-hunt and questioned his wife’s ability to receive a fair trial. Mrs Brooks has herself challenged the decision to prosecute, and raised issues about impartiality.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 22nd May 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“A wealthy jeweller’s son has been found guilty of murdering his 17-year-old girlfriend in a jealous rage.”
The Guardian, 21st May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A mother has been found guilty of having her 13-year-old daughter’s boyfriend fatally attacked and then persuading her to take the blame.”
The Independent, 21st May 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“If found guilty Rebekah and Charlie Brooks would be likely to face a custodial sentence but average terms are 10 months.”
The Guardian, 15th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ali Dizaei, the Metropolitan Police commander twice jailed for corruption, has been dismissed from the force, it was announced today.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Alison Levitt, QC, Principal Legal Advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions oversees CPS decision making, and all potential prosecutions, in relation to the ongoing phone hacking investigations and other related matters.”
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Crown Prosecution Service, 15th May 2012
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“False reports to the police are rare. Most complaints are truthful and accurate and amount to a proper grievance. However, there are some that are either false or wild exaggerations of the truth. There are yet more that may well be true but amount only to such a trivial complaint that a reasonable person would not think it worthy of the attention of the authorities. The subject of such reporting has hitherto had limited redress in law. Unless the Crown were wiling to prosecute the accuser the chances of retribution were small. The case of Waxman has brought to notice an area of civil redress.”
One Inner Temple Lane, 1st May 2012
Source: www.1itl.com
“The teenager who killed pensioner Richard Mannington Bowes during the summer riots has been sentenced to eight years’ detention.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A mother of four has been jailed for six months for falsely reporting her daughter had been abducted from her backyard.”
The Independent, 11th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Three men were jailed for life today for the ‘calculated and cold-blooded’ murder of a nightclub doorman.”
The Independent, 26th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A former soap opera star who admitted driving the getaway car in a gangland shooting has been cleared of murder, it can now be reported. Brian Regan, 53, who played Terry Sullivan in Channel 4’s Brookside, was found not guilty at Liverpool crown court of the killing of nightclub doorman Bahman Faraji, 44. Regan was convicted of perverting the course of justice by lying to police in the early stages of the murder investigation and disposing of a pair of gloves he had worn on the night of the killing. Regan, who was on bail for supplying cocaine when the murder took place in February 2011, was jailed on 25 January for four years 10 months. The facts of the case can be revealed after Mrs Justice Nicola Davies lifted reporting restrictions put in place to avoid prejudicing the trial of another defendant, Jason Gabbana.”
The Guardian, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It seems remarkable that if a woman tells a lie when living in permanent fear of being attacked and stabbed she would probably be able to put forward the defence of duress (if that lie tended to pervert the course of justice), but it seems such a defence does not apply if the woman is living in fear of being raped.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 19th March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“A woman who was jailed for falsely retracting an accusation of rape against her allegedly violent and abusive husband is to take her case to the supreme court.”
The Guardian, 16th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A solicitor from Swansea jailed for fraud and money laundering has had his conviction quashed and been set free.”
BBC News, 14th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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