During Committee stage of LASPO in the House of Lords, Baroness Gale moved an amendment to the bill which would insert a new clause providing for ‘disclosure of information about convictions etc. of violent abusers to members of the public’. It quickly became known as Clare’s Law, after the case of Clare Wood. Read the full story

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 deal with the underlying drivers of the violence.”

In the immediate aftermath of the August riots the Prime Minister called for a report into Britain’s street gangs, even though only one in five of those arrested in connection with the riots were known gang members. Read the full story

Emergency powers to forcibly relocate terror suspects without consent are being planned by the Government in new emergency legislation, just months after it pledged to scrap the existing measure.

In January, home secretary Theresa May went to the House of Commons to announce the results of the counter terrorism review which was one of the main commitments of the coalition government. The headline announcement was the proposal to scrap the controversial control order regime. Control orders were to be replaced by “a new package of measures that is better focused and has more targeted restrictions,” to be known officially as Read the full story

In April, district Judge Feinstein, at Salford Magistrates’ Court, made a ruling that set a substantial cat amongst a large flock of pigeons.
The case concerned a murder suspect, Paul Hookway, who was arrested last November. Police had been given permission to detain him for 36 hours. Five months later, Read the full story

Out will go the existing Serious and Organised Crime Agency, and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, and in will come the National Crime Agency (NCA) under plans announced by the Home Office. The NCA will become fully operational from December 2013. Read the full story

Once again the peace of Westminster was disturbed by the sound of screeching brakes and the smell of burning rubber as yet another major policy revision was thrown into reverse. 

By my reckoning the reported shelving of justice secretary Ken Clarke’s sentencing plans is Read the full story

The Home Office has launched plans to tackle violence against women and girls. Spouses and partners of UK residents who are forced to flee their relationships as a result of domestic violence will now be able to access vital support services.
The UN declaration on violence against women defines such violence as Read the full story

Home Secretary Theresa May went to the House of Commons on Wednesday to announce the results of the counter terrorism review which was one of the main commitments of the coalition government. The headline announcement was the proposal to scrap the very controversial control order regime. Read the full story

Black people are 26 times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by police in England and Wales. The figures relate to stop and searches under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which was introduced to deal with football hooligans and the threat of serious violence. It allows police to search anyone in a designated area without specific grounds for suspicion. Read the full story

Yesterday Home Secretary Theresa May told Parliament that a rapid review of key counter-terrorism and security powers is underway. The review, a commitment in the coalition agreement, published on 20 May 2010, will look at what counter-terrorism powers and measures could be rolled back in order to restore the balance of civil liberties and counter-terrorism powers Read the full story