“South Yorkshire Police is reopening investigations into the force’s conduct over the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. The force is considering referring itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).”
BBC News, 14th September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“What is the next step legally? Joshua Rozenberg explores the options for a new inquest, public inquiry or criminal proceedings.”
The Guardian, 12th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A council will take no further action against protesters arrested during the clearance of Europe’s largest illegal travellers’ site. The protesters were among those arrested as they clashed with police and bailiffs as travellers were removed from Dale Farm, Essex, last October.”
The Guardian, 23rd August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Data Protection Act 1998 is increasingly being deployed as part of a claimant’s arsenal in defamation claims. The Information Commissioner has historically resisted policing DPA breaches in the context of allegedly defamatory expressions of opinion by one person about another.”
Panopticon, 20th August 2012
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“Around one in five rioters jailed after last year’s summer rampages have been tagged and let out of prison early.”
The Guardian, 18th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The link-sharing website’s demise at the hands of the content industry’s pitbull has set more than one precedent.”
The Guardian, 19th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The number of rapes being reported to Scotland Yard has fallen significantly amid claims of crumbling confidence among victims towards the Met’s specialist sex crimes operation, Sapphire.”
The Guardian, 19th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There were 1,942 recorded incidents of disability hate crime in England and Wales in 2011, an increase of more than 25% on the total for 2010 and the highest since this data was first recorded in April 2010.”
The Guardian, 14th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.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
“Directors within Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation could face corporate charges and prosecution for neglect of their duties, in plans that are being examined by the Crown Prosecution Service.”
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The Guardian, 31st July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“John Terry has been acquitted of racially aggravated causing harassment, alarm or distress under s 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 and s 31 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 31st July 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Two Metropolitan police officers are to stand trial accused of making racist remarks to their colleagues, prosecutors have announced.”
The Guardian, 26th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Crime victims in England and Wales are to get the right to a review in cases when it has been decided that no one will be charged.”
BBC News, 27th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Statement from Alison Levitt QC, Principal Legal Advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP): This statement is made in the interests of transparency and accountability to explain the decisions reached in relation to Operation Weeting.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 24th July 2012
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Kier Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has said that a review into child sexual exploitation would focus on the failure to listen to victims rather than the ethnicity of the perpetrators.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The CPS has tried to find ways of assessing the impact it has on improving the safety of the victims in cases of violence against women and girls.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 23rd July 2012
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Domestic violence conviction rates are at their highest after a four-year campaign by prosecutors to tackle violence against women and girls, the director of public prosecutions will announce on Monday.”
The Guardian, 22nd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, will reveal that convictions for rape are now at record levels but it is only the tip of the iceberg. Just ten per cent of victims of serious sexual assault will go to the police, mainly because they do not believe the criminal justice system will help them, he will say.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, has today launched a consultation on a proposed new edition of the Code for Crown Prosecutors (the Code). The Code is the overarching document that all prosecutors follow in deciding whether or not a suspect should be charged.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 19th July 2012
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Criminals arrested for offences such as minor assaults, theft and fraud could escape prosecution in the biggest shake-up of charging guidelines for 20 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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