“One in 10 emergency calls to police are categorised as domestic violence related, rising in some areas to a fifth of all 999 alerts.”
The Guardian, 24th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Statistics published by the Ministry of Justice today look at women and the Criminal Justice System.”
The Guardian, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Fewer than one in four UK internet users that engaged in copyright infringing activity during a three month period earlier this year said they would be put off from repeating the offence if they knew they would receive a letter to tell them that their internet access was to be suspended as a result of the behaviour, according to a new study commissioned by Ofcom.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th November 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Thousands of children are raped and abused each year, with many more cases going unreported by victims and unrecorded by the authorities, according to an official study presented as the most comprehensive inquiry to date of the scale and prevalence of child sexual exploitation in England.”
The Guardian, 21st November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government wants to restrict judicial review cases. But how common are they anyway?”
The Guardian, 19th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“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
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“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
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