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The police service is to be reviewed, ‘hard-core’ criminals will be targeted, and greater use made of community punishments under government proposals for the criminal justice system.

The House of Lords’ ruling that two men must pay living expenses for the time they spent in jail for crimes they did not commit “added insult to injury”, says the solicitor for the men.

It seems that, as the demands on local authority housing stock increase, more disabled people are looking to community care legislation to meet their housing needs.

R (Binomugisha) v Southwark LBC [2006] EWHC 2254 (Admin), [2006] All ER (D) 83 (Sep)

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Hugh James—Phil Edwards

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DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

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David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
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