Wednesday, 13 November 2024

Assisted Dying - Two Bills before Parliament

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Updated 14 November 2024 Previous post -  Law and Lawyers: Assisted Dying Bills ~ Background information . This post takes a brief look at t...
Friday, 25 October 2024

Sentencing Review ~ some of the issues

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On 21 October 2024, the prison population of England and Wales stood at 87,465 against a Useable Operational Capacity of 89,136 -  Prison po...
Tuesday, 22 October 2024

Review of Sentencing

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The government has announced a review of sentencing to be led by former Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor Mr David Gauke -...
Thursday, 17 October 2024

Assisted Dying Bills ~ Background information

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Update 11 November 2024 - Addendum with link to text of Leadbeater MP's Bill and explanatory notes The term "Assisted Dying"  ...
Thursday, 3 October 2024

British Indian Ocean Territory

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The UK government has agreed with Mauritius - (a nation within the Commonwealth) - to settle historic sovereignty claims over British Indian...
Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Some recent new material

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The Supreme Court of the UK has been operational for 15 years. See the report from the House of Commons LIbrary  The UK Supreme Court - Hous...
Saturday, 28 September 2024

R v Plummer and Holland ~ Criminal Damage at the National Gallery

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On 14 October 2022, "Just Stop Oil" protesters, Phoebe Plummer (age 23) and Anna Holland (age 22) committed criminal damage at the...
Tuesday, 17 September 2024

R v Hugh Edwards - Sentencing Remarks

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Mr Hugh Edwards  (63) has been sentenced by a court to a sentence of imprisonment - 6 months suspended for 2 years. He resigned from the BBC...

Inquiries - House of Lords committee calls for reform

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The  House of Lords Statutory Inquiries Committee has published a report urging a  major overhaul of the way public inquiries are set up an...
Monday, 9 September 2024

Winter Fuel Regulations

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Politically, the new (Labour) government made a choice to remove Winter Fuel payments from all the elderly apart from those who qualify for ...
Friday, 6 September 2024

House of Lords Reform ~ Hereditary Peers to be completely excluded

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On 5 September 2024 the government introduced the  House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament See also th...
Wednesday, 4 September 2024

Grenfell Tower Fire 14 June 2017 ~ Final Report and earlier reports

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With updates - 5, 6, 7 and 8 September Grenfell Tower Inquiry Grenfell Tower Inquiry - YouTube On 14 June 2017, a fire occurred in Flat 16 a...
Friday, 16 August 2024

Prosecutions for rail fare avoidance ~ use of Single Justice Procedure ~ Ruling by Chief Magistrate

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Senior District Judge Goldspring (Chief Magistrate) has issued an 18 page ruling (dated 15 August 2024) relating to private prosecutions by...
Sunday, 11 August 2024

Free speech has limits

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19 October 2022 - House of Lords Library - Freedom of expression online: Communications and Digital Committee report - House of Lords Librar...
Friday, 9 August 2024

Serious Violence Reduction Orders

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On 8 August 2024, in the Crown Court at Liverpool, two men were sentenced to imprisonment for offences connected to recent public disorder. ...
Wednesday, 7 August 2024

DPP says CPS will consider terrorism in disorder cases

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Mr Stephen Parkinson has been Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) since 1 November 2023. He is the 17th holder of the office which dates ...
Monday, 5 August 2024

A note on compensation for riot damage ~ the Riot Compensation Act 2016

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One of the consequences of the disorder experienced over recent days will be claims for compensation but what can be claimed? Compensation u...
Friday, 2 August 2024

R v Axel Muganwa Rudakubana ~ Southport attack, Serious Disorder

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At Liverpool on 1 August 2024, Axel Muganwa Rudakubana (aged 17) was remanded to youth detention accommodation . He is charged with the murd...
Friday, 19 July 2024

R v Hallam ~ M25 protests ~ conspiracy to intentionally commit public nuisance

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A  Law Commission report in 2015  recommended the replacement of the common law offence of public nuisance. Government took no action on thi...
Thursday, 18 July 2024

Covid-19 Inquiry - First report

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The UK Covid-19 Inquiry , chaired by Baroness Heather Hallett, has issued its first report which deals with Module 1 - Resilience and Prepar...