Fee hikes for settlement applications and required tests for applicants will have a "disproportionate impact" on poor and excluded groups, a campaign group is warning.
Legislating for Sarah's Law is unnecessary and will not make our children any safer, says Alisdair Gillespie
Parents and teachers will be able to access information about paedophiles in their area as part of a pilot scheme to be announced by John Reid, the Home Secretary.
Michael Zander QC considers whether the new Home Office review of PACE is good news
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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