“Ken Clarke’s sentencing reforms could still fuel a 2,000-strong cut in the record prison population in England and Wales, according to official projections.”
The Guardian, 1st November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Market impacts of the Legal Services Act 2007 – Baseline Report (Final) 2012 (PDF)
Legal Services Board, 25th October 2012
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
“There has been a rise in the number of people unhappy with how police in England and Wales handled complaints.”
BBC News, 24th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A murder is committed by a criminal out on bail every ten days, new statistics have revealed.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government is seeking views on whether the way crime outcomes are recorded should be broadened to better reflect the work police officers do.”
Home Office, 19th October 2012
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Crimes against adults fell 6% in England and Wales for the year ending in June, compared with the previous year, official statistics show.”
BBC News, 18th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Increasing numbers of hate-crime prosecutions are collapsing because victims are backing out or their stories unravel in court, a new report from the Crown Prosecution Service reveals today.”
The Independent, 18th October 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Greece, Bulgaria, Poland and Romania are the worst European Union countries at delivering justice through criminal trials, according to an independent survey of the union’s courts.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related link: Human rights violations in Europe, broken down by country, article violated and judgment
“The plight of a man who had to be rushed to hospital hours after arriving in jail highlights the limitations of prison care.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Another defeat for the United Kingdom in Strasbourg yesterday. In James, Wells and Lee v. the United Kingdom, a chamber of the Court’s Fourth Section held that indeterminate sentences of imprisonment for public protection infringed Article 5 of the Convention.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th September 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Youths caught carrying knives are less likely to be jailed than a year ago, official figures have shown, putting immediate pressure on the new Justice Secretary to make sentences tougher.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Some English and Welsh jails hold twice as many people as they should, according to figures from Prison Reform Trust.”
The Guardian, 28th 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
“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
“The number of children in custody has hit a record low five years after the start of a programme designed to limit the use of prison, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Justice today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 16th July 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Legalising assisted dying does not lead to more people opting to end their lives early, claim academics who have looked at the situation in The Netherlands.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Attorney General’s Office has today released its unduly lenient sentence statistics for 2011. 117 sentences, from 78 cases, were referred to the Court of Appeal by the Law Officers. The Court considered 97 of them were unduly lenient (83%) and 94 sentences were increased (80% of the 117 referred).”
Attorney General’s Office, 5th July 2012
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
Related link: Judicial response to the publication of the Attorney General’s unduly lenient referral statistics
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