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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