“A wealthy accountant shot dead his wife and son following a campaign of threats after police failed to meet basic standards of investigating and record keeping, an inquiry has found.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Sir Ian Blair will escape possible disciplinary action over the award of Metropolitan Police contracts to a friend when he leaves his job this week.”
The Times, 24th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
E v Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and Another
House of Lords
“The positive obligation imposed on the state by article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights to prevent the infliction by third parties of inhuman or degrading treatment was not unqualified and absolute. It was an obligation to do all that was reasonably to be expected to avoid a real or immediate risk to an individual once the existence of that risk was known or ought to have been known.”
The Times, 19th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“A policeman who posted abusive comments on a website, which appeared to condone the use of violence, has been fined by his force.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police yesterday claimed a limited success in the fight against knife crime, citing a 12% fall in incidents since May, but at the price of long-term resentment over the widespread use of stop-and-search needed to achieve it.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Rank-and-file police officers have said Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s desire for them to visit every victim of crime in person is ‘laudable’ but cannot be achieved without slashing red tape.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Binge drinkers arrested for alcohol related offences in nine police force areas across the country will be compelled to face up to the consequences of their drinking, Home Office Minister Alan Campbell announced today.”
Home Office, 13th November 2008
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The positive obligation imposed on the state and its emanations by art 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms to prevent the infliction by third parties of inhuman or degrading treatment was not unqualified, and was an obligation to do all that was reasonably to be expected to avoid a real or immediate risk to an individual once the existence of that risk was known or ought to have been known.”
WLR Daily, 12th November 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The brother of a pilot falsely accused of involvement in the September 11 terror attacks today fought off a police attempt to overturn a ruling that he is entitled to damages arising out of his own arrest.”
The Independent, 12th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Files on up to 300 unsolved murders from the 1980s and 1990s could be reopened as part of a nationwide cold case review, it has been disclosed.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Britain’s security agencies and police would be given unprecedented and legally binding powers to ban the media from reporting matters of national security, under proposals being discussed in Whitehall.”
The Independent, 10th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A police officer who admitted having sex with one woman while on duty and propositioning another after she had been arrested was today jailed for four months.”
The Independent, 7th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Jacqui Smith has laid down her authority over the appointment of the next Commissioner of Scotland Yard by insisting that the successful candidate must be an ‘outstanding’ national leader.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina (Reynolds) v Independent Police Complaints Commission
Court of Appeal
“Where a man who had been arrested for being drunk and disorderly was found, while in custody, to be in a coma and was later shown to be suffering from a serious injury which might have been caused during or before he was taken into custody, the Independent Police Complaints Commission had a power and a duty to investigate independently the cause of the injury even if that meant that it had to investigate events which occurred before the man had come into contact with the police.”
The Times, 6th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Britain’s highest-ranking Asian police officer, Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, is due to reach an out-of-court settlement with the Metropolitan police over his employment tribunal claim for racial discrimination before Commissioner Sir Ian Blair leaves office next month, a source has told the Guardian.”
The Guardian, 5th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Electronic crime is becoming more common and more sophisticated, partly because the UK police response is inadequate, large firms have said. Most do not report e-crime because they do not have faith in investigating authorities, a survey has found.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th November 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Ms Saunders, 26, still cannot comprehend why her brother, a brilliant barrister and seemingly stable, barricaded himself inside his £2.2 million Chelsea flat five months ago; still less why he started firing a shotgun out of a window to set off a sequence of events that ended with his death. ”
The Times, 31st October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A woman who punched a police officer has been spared jail after a judge heard that she bought him a box of chocolates to apologise.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Where a man who had been arrested for being drunk and disorderly was found, while in custody, to be in a coma and was later shown to be suffering from a serious injury which might have been caused during or before he was taken into custody, the Independent Police Complaints Commission had a power and a duty independently to investigate the cause of the injury even if that meant that it had to investigate events which occurred before the man had come into contact with the police.”
WLR Daily, 23rd October 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Police have been under-recording the most serious violent crimes for up to a decade, the Home Office admitted, as figures revealed an apparent 22 per cent increase in incidents this year. Conservatives said the Government’s claims to have cut crime were ‘fatally undermined’ as reports of violent crimes from murders to grievous bodily harm leapt during the year to June, after officials discovered hundreds of incidents had been wrongly recorded by a string of police forces. As many as 13 forces had been recording offences of grievous bodily harm with intent in a lower category, when they should have been included in figures for the most serious offences.”
The Independent, 24th October 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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