“The European Court of Human Rights is to consider later whether an England football fan should be extradited to Portugal to serve a prison sentence.”
BBC News, 2nd February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An England fan has lost his latest fight to avoid being extradited to Portugal to serve a jail term for his involvement in a riot during Euro 2004.”
BBC News, 19th January 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A deal to ensure proper funding for representation in the most complex criminal trials has today been threatened by a last-minute change of heart by the Government, the Bar said today.”
The Bar Council, 2nd December 2009
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“The Chief Executive of the Bar Council of England and Wales, the Chairman of the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales and the President of the Law Society of England and Wales express their deep concern at reports of mass trials being held in Iran following the political unrest after the disputed June presidential elections.”
The Bar Council, 26th August 2009
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“The records, published in a collaboration between the website and the National Archives, include every criminal trial in England and Wales that was reported to the Home Office between 1791 and 1892.”
The Times, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The £1.75 million Heathrow robbery trial was abandoned for the third time at the Old Bailey today, at a cost to the public of £22m.”
The Times, 9th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Police and prosecutors were locked in crisis meetings last night after what they believed to be the strongest terrorism case ever presented to a court was rejected by a jury.”
The Times, 9th September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A law student accused of killing the doctor acting as his guardian ‘snapped’ because of exam pressure, a jury heard.”
BBC News, 21st July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A doctor’s practice manager helped herself to nearly £100,000 from surgery accounts to pay for cars, holidays and beauty treatments before blaming an innocent GP, a court has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A nanny shook a three-month-old baby so forcefully that he suffered severe brain damage and died almost eleven months later, a jury at Liverpool Crown Court was told yesterday.”
The Times, 24th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“It is a question to excite the repressed student in every lawyer: which cases have most shaped British law over the past 200 years?”
The Times, 19th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Unseen files from some of the most sensational criminal trials in history are to be made available to the public today.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A £100,000 cannabis-dealing trial, launched following a high-profile police raid on a Rastafarian temple in south London, has collapsed in legal confusion.”
The Guardian, 8th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A pensioner who was accused of killing his partner and then confessing to his pet cats was cleared of murder and manslaughter today – and then hugged by members of the jury before leaving the courtroom.”
The Times, 14th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The trial of a man charged with murdering a pregnant 22-year-old woman on her doorstep began at the Old Bailey in London today.”
The Guardian, 27th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The former Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, tells Law in Action that archived internet stories bearing on pending criminal cases should be removed from the web.”
BBC Law in Action, 19th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Britain is having secret talks with Washington in a final attempt to stop a UK resident being charged with terror offences and brought before what has been described as a ‘show trial’ at Guantanamo Bay.”
The Independent, 16th February 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The foreign secretary, David Miliband, today opened a rift with the Bush administration by raising doubts about the fairness of US military tribunals for the six men charged in connection with the September 11 attacks.”
The Guardian, 12th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A sixth of all prisoners held in England and Wales have not been found guilty of any offence or are waiting to be sentenced, says the first report to investigate pre-trial detention across the world.”
The Independent, 23rd January 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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