Local government

Those brave enough to expose the state's dark underbelly should be celebrated, says Geoffrey Bindman

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.

Proposals to relax fingerprinting restrictions and allow police to question suspects until the time of their trial—even after charges have been made—have been attacked by lawyers and civil rights campaigners.

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.

When are public authority contracts likely to be liable for full disclosure, asks Navdeep Gill

The government’s addiction to stop-go penal politics is destructive and possibly disastrous, says Rod Morgan

Mark Pawlowski considers the court’s power to relieve an unlawful killer from forfeiture of the victim’s estate

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.