International Law

Exclusive: Jacqui Smith commits bigamy

Posted on December 21, 2008
Exclusive: Jacqui Smith commits bigamybr /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/12/20/article-0-02DD5AE4000005DC-467_233x423.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 233px; height: 423px;" src="http://i...

Christmas

Posted on December 21, 2008
Christmasbr /br /a title="View Christmas 1 document on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/9264958/Christmas-1" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;"Christmas 1/a object codebase="http://download...

Thousands of criminals spared prison go on to offend again

Posted on December 21, 2008
Thousands of criminals spared prison go on to offend againbr /br /More than 21,000 offenders serving non-custodial sentences committed further crimes last year, casting doubt over Labour's pledge to make the punishments a tough alternative to jail. br /br /a href="http://www...

Mother flees abroad with her son to escape social workers

Posted on December 21, 2008
Mother flees abroad with her son to escape social workersbr /br /Social workers have been accused of trying to seize a six-year-old boy from his mother despite having no evidence that she has ever harmed him.br /br /a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3868100/Mother-flees-abroad-with-her-son-to-escape-social-workers...

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More than 300 lifers out within ten years

Posted on December 20, 2008
More than 300 lifers out within ten yearsbr /br /More than 300 murderers, rapists and other serious offenders handed life sentences under Labour are already back on the streets.br /br /a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3850971/More-than-300-lifers-out-within-ten-years...

One law for the common people and one law for a peer of the realm

Posted on December 20, 2008
One law for the common people and one law for a peer of the realmbr /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45314000/jpg/_45314409_f76e7ecc-13db-4809-b4c6-0fa1835980f9.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 170px;" src="http://newsimg...

Pentagon draws up plans for Guantanamo closure

Posted on December 19, 2008
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Pc jailed over blackmail attempts

Posted on December 19, 2008
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Tory peer accused of going berserk in road rage attack

Posted on December 19, 2008
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Prisoners to record bedtime stories for children

Posted on December 19, 2008
Prisoners to record bedtime stories for childrenbr /br /Prisoners will soon be able to video themselves reading bedtime stories to send home to their children. br /br /a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/3833723/Prisoners-to-record-bedtime-stories-for-children...

Sex offenders win rights ruling

Posted on December 19, 2008
Sex offenders win rights rulingbr /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45124000/jpg/_45124544_scales_pa226b.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 170px;" src="http://newsimg...

TV licence fee costs more than fine for evading payment

Posted on December 18, 2008
TV licence fee costs more than fine for evading paymentbr /br /Law-abiding viewers are being charged more for their annual television licence than the average fine issued in the magistrates' courts to those who evade payment.br /br /a href="http://www...

Hong Kong ruling on prisoner voting rights is part of the modern liberal trend

Posted on December 18, 2008
a href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2008/12/hong-kong-ruling-on-prisoner-voting.php"Hong Kong ruling on prisoner voting rights is part of the modern liberal trendbr //abr /11:20 AM ETbr /br /Pui-yin Lo [Deputy Chairman, Special Committee on Constitutional Affairs and Human Rights, Hong Kong Bar Association]: "The judgment of Mr...

Cigarette chewing dog killed on way to tobacconists

Posted on December 18, 2008
a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3831918/Cigarette-chewing-dog-killed-on-way-to-tobacconists.html"Cigarette chewing dog killed on way to tobacconists/abr /br /A 10-a-day cigarette chewing 24-year-old Dachshund has been knocked down and killed ? on his way to the tobacconist's shop...

Parking fine paid with bog roll

Posted on December 17, 2008
Parking fine paid with bog rollbr /br /a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3813599/Motorist-who-paid-overzealous-parking-fine-with-toilet-paper-escapes-further-penalty.html"Motorist who paid 'overzealous' parking fine with toilet paper escapes further penaltybr /br /A motorist who paid an "overzealous" parking fine with a cheque written on toilet paper has claimed a victory for common sense after he escaped a further penalty...

Met Commander begins race claim

Posted on December 17, 2008
Met Commander begins race claimbr /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45031000/jpg/_45031636_4acd6f5f-ae85-4f2f-b9f8-e02549f4f7c5.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 170px;" src="http://newsimg...

Arrest of Damian Green and search of his office lawful

Posted on December 17, 2008
Arrest of Damian Green and search of his office lawfulbr /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45248000/jpg/_45248154_green226b.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 170px;" src="http://newsimg...

Asbo chief arrested over disorder

Posted on December 17, 2008
a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7787574.stm"Asbo chief arrested over disorder/abr /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"Nottingham's chief anti-social behaviour officer has been arrested over an incident of "violent disorder"/span...

Facebook first as lawyers use site to track debt-dodgers

Posted on December 17, 2008
Facebook first as lawyers use site to track debt-dodgersbr /br /a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-first-as-lawyers-use-site-to-track-debtdodgers-1135999.html"A Canberra lawyer who won the right to serve legal documents on two defendants via Facebook says courts around the country will follow his lead...

Town halls banned from using spy laws for petty offences

Posted on December 16, 2008
Town halls banned from using spy laws for petty offencesTown halls are to be banned from using anti-terror laws to spy on the public for petty offences, the Home Secretary is due to announce. Jacqui Smith is to order an overhaul of the use of the controversial powers which have seen councils target the public for trivial offences such as dog fouling, littering or "bin crimes"...

Bush dodges shoes and bullets

Posted on December 16, 2008
Bush dodges shoes and bullets

Iran's bloggers thrive despite blocks

Posted on December 15, 2008
Iran's bloggers thrive despite blocksIran has one of the most vibrant blogging communities in the world - despite government boasts that it blocks five million websites. The BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran is spending the day with bloggers to see what makes them tick...

Rights and responsibilities bill is all wrong

Posted on December 15, 2008
Rights and responsibilities bill is all wrongBy Marcel BerlinsWhen the Queen's speech failed to mention the government's long-trailed plans for a "bill of rights and responsibilities", I felt a short burst of relief that this misguided measure had finally been laid to rest...

Terrorism adviser to Met is on wanted list

Posted on December 15, 2008
Terrorism adviser to Met is on wanted listInterpol notice urges arrest of Islam TV chiefA man wanted by Interpol for his links to an alleged terrorist organisation has been advising Scotland Yard on countering Muslim extremism, a Times investigation has discovered...

A unique and effective mechanism

Posted on December 15, 2008
A unique and effective mechanismIntroductionThe European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (?the Convention?) is the concrete expression at European level of a collective guarantee for some of the rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 10 December 1948...

Forget naked jam makers - prisons are the surprise calendar hit for 2009

Posted on December 15, 2008
Forget naked jam makers - prisons are the surprise calendar hit for 2009Forget naked Women's Institute groups or scantily clad fire crews, a calendar featuring the drab walls of Britain's prisons has become a surprise best-seller.

Blind man's guide dog barred from restaurant for offending Muslims

Posted on December 15, 2008
Blind man's guide dog barred from restaurant for offending MuslimsA blind man has been turned away from a fashionable Indian restaurant because his guide dog offended Muslim staff. Dirty fucking Muslims worried about the hygiene of a clean dog?Cynical Chatter From The Underworld has a more politically correct post on this story here.

Home Office to send family to be butchered by Mugabe's regime

Posted on December 14, 2008
Home Office to send family to be butchered by Mugabe's regimeWoman whose husband was killed for his links to the opposition has claim for asylum rejected after eight years in UKSo, criminals can stay but innocent victims must be deported just to keep the stats looking good?

Urban otters join foxes and squirrels in Britain's towns and cities

Posted on December 14, 2008
Urban otters join foxes and squirrels in Britain's towns and citiesThey were driven to the edge of extinction by pollution, but now otters are staging a comeback that is seeing them even move into Britain's towns and cities.

£130 million refurbishment bill for Jack Straw's new offices

Posted on December 14, 2008
£130 million refurbishment bill for Jack Straw's new officesThe Ministry of Justice has been accused of wasting a "colossal" amount of taxpayers' money after spending more than £130 million refurbishing an old office block for its new headquarters.At around a £1,000 per square foot to refurbish, and almost 20 times more expensive than it needed to be (more dodgy contracts?), I feel that genuine questions can be raised...

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