Police & Prisons

Articles

30 Mar 2016

ECtHR: Police should not be prosecuted for Jean Charles de Menezes shooting

CPS decision not to prosecute armed police vindicated by Strasbourg court ruling

22 Mar 2016

'Kafkaesque' Turkey shows 'extreme contempt' for the rule of law

Turkish authorities breaches international law with arrest of human rights lawyers

8 Mar 2016

Court of Appeal overturns state prison smoking ban

Health Act does not apply to public sector prisons in England and Wales

7 Mar 2016

Government up to its 'old tricks' with prison service compensation audit

BLM announce personal injury audit to support MoJ's crackdown on 'spurious' claims

7 Mar 2016

New criminal offence for senior bankers is a 'paper tiger'

New law marks biggest regulatory change for the financial industry since the 2008 crisis

25 Feb 2016

'Principled' Heathrow 13 avoid jail after airport trespass

Protest was 'a matter of life and death'. The impact of air pollution is a 'ticking time bomb', says Hodge Jones & Allen partner

23 Feb 2016

'Elementary, my dear Watson': The duty to investigate in article 2 inquests

Matthew Waszak discusses a recent case on the scope of coroners' investigative duties in an inquest into a death in police custody

11 Feb 2016

Sentence reduction for guilty pleas draft guideline published

New rules aim to incentivise offenders while sparing victims and witnesses court appearances