23 March 2012
The House of Lords concluded report stage of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill with three votes on Tuesday. The session on this fifth day went on until past midnight. Lord Beecham (Labour) moved an amendment on referral fees. He said: “The amendment deals with the position of not-for-profit organisations. We are [...]
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16 March 2012
The government’s controversial legal aid bill has suffered its ninth defeat in the House of Lords. The bill has now suffered more defeats in the Lords than either the health or welfare reform bills. On Monday, the third day of Report, the government seemed to have hit on a strategy to reduce potential defeats by [...]
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09 March 2012
Wednesday was the second day of Report stage for the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill in the Lords. Four divisions took place during the debate, resulting in three government defeats and one government win. Baroness Doocey (Liberal Democrat) moved amendment 11. She said: “The amendment concerns the proposals in the Bill to [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Criminal Justice, General, Judiciary, Legal AidComments (0)
07 March 2012
The government suffered three defeats on the first day of Report stage of its legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill in the Lords on Monday. Despite almost universal hostility during the ten days of Committee stage, ministers had hoped that it would not translate into parliamentary defeats. The bill now seems destined to [...]
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06 March 2012
West Midlands and Surrey police forces have invited bids from G4S and other major security companies to take over the delivery of a wide range of services previously carried out by the police. According to the ‘Guardian’, “the breathtaking list of policing activities up for grabs includes investigating crimes, detaining suspects, developing cases, responding to [...]
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01 March 2012
A joint review by the inspectorates of police and crown prosecutors has found that intelligence failings lead to police missing evidence of serial rapists, who may be escaping justice as a result. The review, published on Tuesday, says that rape problem profiles, tracking all attacks in a particular area, are only being kept up to [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice, JudiciaryComments (0)
21 February 2012
The ninth and tenth days of line-by-line consideration of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment bill brought the Committee stage in the House of Lords to a conclusion last week. In general the pattern was the same as the first eight days of the Committee stage. Subjects discussed included bail, remand, electronic monitoring, life sentences, [...]
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17 February 2012
The ninth day of line-by-line consideration of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment bill at Committee stage in the House of Lords last week, which was midwife to the birth of Jane’s Law, might also lead to Clare’s Law. Baroness Gale moved an amendment to the bill which would insert a new clause providing for [...]
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17 February 2012
There was rare consensus between the government and the opposition at the start of the ninth day of line-by-line consideration of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment bill at Committee stage in the House of Lords last week. The occasion was an amendment to the bill, proposed by Lord Beecham, to insert a clause allowing [...]
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16 February 2012
Home Secretary Theresa May has announced a new initiative aimed at ending gang and youth violence. She said: “Gangs and youth violence have been a serious problem in some of our cities for several years now. This fact is widely known, but we need to accept that over the years not enough was done to [...]
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