‘Hundreds of potentially unwell children in England and Wales have been placed in police cells after being detained under the Mental Health Act as officers had no place else to take them.’
The Independent, 26th January 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Businesses have become more willing to challenge tax decisions against them that appear to be unlawful, an expert has said, after a 31% increase in the number of judicial review applications made against HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).’
OUT-LAW.com, 24th January 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The public does not believe it and ministers privately admit they do not fully understand the reasons for it – but crime is continuing to fall sharply.’
The Independent, 23rd January 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Last week, the UK Statistics Authority, the watchdog that oversees the publication of official data, said it could no longer approve crime figures based on information recorded by the police in England and Wales.’
BBC News, 21st January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The number of suicides at prisons in England in Wales in 2013 was the highest for six years, the Howard League for Penal Reform has said.’
BBC News, 20th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Rory Stewart, the Tory MP who served as deputy governor of an Iraqi province after the 2003 war, is to lead a government review to improve the rehabilitation of ex-service personnel who are jailed.’
The Guardian, 11th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Recorded sex crimes against children under 11 in England and Wales went up by 16% last year, research suggests. There were 5,547 incidents, against the previous year’s 4,772, according to data from 41 police forces obtained by children’s charity, the NSPCC.’
BBC News, 14th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Senior officer tells MPs that practice of holding children overnight before court appearance is big concern for police.’
The Guardian, 13th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘It is the moment that the convicted criminal cares about most: how long are they going to get?’
BBC News, 8th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Confiscation orders designed to ensure crime does not pay provide neither value for money nor a credible deterrent as perpetrators keep all but 26p in every £100 generated by the criminal economy, according to a damning report.’
The Guardian, 17th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Banks are failing to refund some victims of a phone scam that involves people being duped into transferring money from their own bank account to one that is accessible to a fraudster.’
BBC News, 14th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for rape after his victim worked up the courage to tell police the day after serving on the jury of another abuse trial.’
BBC News, 13th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A senior High Court judge has argued that couples should not have children until they are ready to wed.’
The Independent, 8th December 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘John Timpson hopes more employers will follow in his footsteps and give ex-offenders a second chance.’
Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, 29th November 2013
Source: www.criminallawandjustice.co.uk
‘David Cameron made a fresh effort to assuage public concern about a wave of migration from Bulgaria and Romania on Tuesday when he announced a series of benefit restrictions on all EU migrant workers, including a ban on access to housing benefit for all new arrivals and a three-month ban before jobseeker’s allowance can be claimed.’
The Guardian, 27th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Black people are more likely to be charged and sent to prison than white people – and to receive longer custodial sentences, according to official Ministry of Justice statistics.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 25th November 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The number of gambling commercials on British TV has rocketed from 234,000 a year to nearly 1.4m annually since the deregulation of the sector six years ago, according to new research.”
The Guardian, 19th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Emotional cruelty to children should be made illegal, according to almost 70 per cent of police officers in England and Wales.”
The Independent, 17th November 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Bob Jones has criticised the posts, saying they have done nothing for police accountability.”
BBC News, 10th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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