‘The Countryside Alliance says 80 per cent of registered hunts have held on to their supporters or recruited new ones since the ban.’
Daily Telegraph, 20th December 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Changes to the animal protection charity’s prosecution policy will not mean a final end to cases brought against members of fox hunts.’
Daily Telegraph, 13th December 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘It began in December 2005 when the Metropolitan police started an investigation into the hacking of Prince William’s phone and has ended exactly 10 years later. In the intervening period, hundreds lost their jobs and many more reputations were both shredded and made, mainly on the legal benches.’
The Guardian, 11th December 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘No more prosecutions will be brought over alleged phone hacking at newspapers owned by the Mirror Group or News Group Newspapers, prosecutors say.’
BBC News, 11th December 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The number of offenders punished for carrying a knife has risen by 7% in the last year as the police and courts take a tougher approach, especially to teenage offenders, new figures show.’
The Guardian, 10th December 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The neutrality of Professor Stephen Harris, one of the UK’s leading authorities on foxes, has been called into question.’
Daily Telegraph, 4th December 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Disability rights campaigners who say the assisted suicide policy in England and Wales is too “liberal” have lost a High Court legal challenge.’
BBC News, 4th December 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘High Court case disputes decision by Sir Keir Starmer, the former DPP turned Labour MP, not to bring charges after Telegraph exposé.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th November 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Teenager is youngest person convicted of so-called revenge porn after posting explicit pictures of girlfriend on Instagram.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th November 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Speech by HHJ Edmund QC at the Criminal Bar Association Ann Goddard Memorial Lecture on 3 November 2015 entitled ”All Change: What you need to know about Better Case Management and the Plea and Trial Preparation Hearing”.
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 17th November 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘City Link did not breach laws requiring them to notify the government that they were “proposing to dismiss” thousands of employees who were made redundant when the business became insolvent last year, a court has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 16th November 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A former warehouse worker and his brother-in-law have been cleared of murdering a young mother who disappeared in 1991.’
The Guardian, 16th November 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The former foreign secretary Jack Straw and Sir Mark Allen, a former senior MI6 officer, could avoid prosecution over complicity in the rendition and torture of two Libyan dissidents by claiming immunity, the supreme court has been told.’
The Guardian, 11th November 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Legal experts have called for an overhaul of UK corporate laws to hold companies to account after the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) dropped its prosecution of Japanese optical giant Olympus Corporation.’
The Independent, 11th November 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The proportion of rape reports to police that led to a charge fell sharply in 2014/15, according to new official figures.’
The Guardian, 5th November 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Legal experts have criticised the prosecution of a protester who was arrested when a fellow activist placed a sticker on a window of a block of luxury flats.’
The Guardian, 22nd October 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The trust at the centre of the worst ever NHS scandal is facing criminal charges over the deaths of four patients .’
Daily Telegraph, 15th October 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Sun journalists Chris Pharo and Jamie Pyatt have been cleared of aiding and abetting a police officer to commit misconduct in a public office.’
BBC News, 15th October 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘More than 2,000 suspected criminals avoided prosecution in England and Wales last year because of their ill-health or age, figures have shown.’
BBC News, 9th October 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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