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Duty Solicitor Lists for July 2012 to January 2012
Last Updated: 18/05/2012 08:52:22
The Duty Solicitor membership lists for July 2012 to January 2012 have been published by the Legal Services Commission today and are available for their website...
Is The Criminal Bar Moribund?
Last Updated: 18/05/2012 08:46:46
According to reports, the head of the Criminal Bar Association is to raise the spectre of strike action by criminal barristers across England and Wales in protest at cuts in fees and legal aid reforms but has the horse already bolted?
24 yr old released in miscarriage of justice
Last Updated: 17/05/2012 09:25:22
David Hannon QC for the Crown refused to opposes an appeal where police were deemed to have witheld evidence.
Tweeters who named Ched Evan's victim face police investigation
Last Updated: 25/04/2012 09:04:10
Police plan to make arrests as part of an investigation into the naming on Twitter of a 19-year-old woman raped by Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans, and have launched an investigation into Sky News after it broadcast her name in a report.
Suspects right to legal advice secured following Law Society intervention
Last Updated: 25/04/2012 08:46:49
The Law Society has welcomed an assurance from the Home Office that police should make it clear to any suspect who speaks voluntarily to the police, that free legal advice is available to him or her at any place, and not just at a police station.
Police officers 'denying suspects their right to consult a solicitor'
Last Updated: 19/04/2012 10:23:14
The Law Society has raised concerns with the Home Office about police officers denying suspects their right to consult a solicitor by exploiting a clever loophole in PACE.
Radio broadcast on joint enterprise today
Last Updated: 18/04/2012 09:13:50
In the first of a new series, Clive Anderson and guests discuss the controversial law of joint enterprise under which people can be convicted of murder even if they didn't physically participate in an assault or strike the fatal blow. Solicitor Simon Natas calls for the law to be changed to make it necessary to prove that a defendant intended that someone should be killed or seriously injured. Hear on I player.
First person to get Olympics asbo
Last Updated: 18/04/2012 09:10:02
An activist who took part in a protest against the construction of an Olympic basketball facility says he has been handed a court order banning him from approaching any Olympic venue, activity or official.
Televised courts are not quite the precedent we think
Last Updated: 18/04/2012 08:59:56
The decision to allow the sentencing of David Gilroy at the High Court in Edinburgh to be filmed and shown on TV news is not quite the presedent we all think.
Waging legal war against the malpractice of phone hacking
Last Updated: 17/04/2012 17:41:24
Freedom of Speech & brave journalism are the sine qua non (pre-requisite conditions) in a democratic society, if freedom is to flourish. The News of the World (NoW), which always took pride for practicing brave journalism in the British Media broken our trust and fallen from grace by their recent phone-hacking scandals.....
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