I'm just back from my hols in Scotland and was listening on the radio to the interviews over the collusion between the RUC, UK Govt and Catholic Church to prevent a Catholic Priest being handled by the criminal justice system. Listening it strikes me that modern day commentators seem incapable of putting themselves into the mind set of 1972, and the fact that unpalatable decisions have to be ...
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ManInAShed on 24th Aug 2010 (via atoryblog.blogspot.com)
SCOTLAND always has had its own legal system. The criminal law, among other areas, is unique to Scotland.
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Scotsman on 1st Jun 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
The government must take a fresh look at policy if over-representation of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities in the criminal justice system is to be addressed, according to a new study published today. Less Equal Than Others: Ethnic Minorities and the Criminal Justice System, carried out by Race for Justice, a new coalition of voluntary organisations working with BME offenders...
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Guardian on 17th Nov 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
The bus contractors such as Arriva and Stagecoach? The private schools? The private health insurance companies? Or the institutions that the sort of middle-class Scots who wind up at Holyrood rather than Westminster hold in the same awe as they held the unquestionable Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of Scotland: the Church of Scotland, the Scottish educational system, the Scottish legal system? Al...
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DavidLindsay on 15th Oct 2008 (via davidaslindsay.blogspot.com)
THE Cadder judgment represented a seismic shift for everyone involved in the criminal justice system, and resulted in emergency legislation giving suspects the right to seek l
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Scotsman on 6th Oct 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
AROW has been rumbling within the scientific community that services Scotland's criminal justice system that seems bound for the UK Supreme Court unless peace breaks out.
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Scotsman on 24th Jul 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
Wrong system So the ultimate Man of System blames The System. According to Gordo, The System governing MPs' pay and rations is a failed system. It is A System that has failed to prevent MPs systematically fleecing us for their own personal profit. So his solution is - yes - A New System. And the key element of his new system is that MPs' pay and rations will henceforth be determined and ...
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BurningOurMoney on 19th May 2009 (via burningourmoney.blogspot.com)
Jack Straw today says that the government needs to "get tough" with criminals. Find me a Home Secretary who hasn't talked tough on crime over the past twenty years. But it's always precisely that. Just talk. The criminal justice system...
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CentreRight on 27th Oct 2008 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Politics is a rough business no matter where it is practiced; and we in the UK have far to many holes in the voting system to cast aspirations about how other nations go about it. Not least because are own system has been fine tuned over centuries to benefit a privileged elite. Our politician's often pontificate to all who are foolish enough to listen that the UK’s political system is t...
When I first heard that Norfolk Police were introducing “sentencing circles” as a way of processing young people through the criminal justice system, my first thought was, surely things can’t be that bad. Peter Merry, head of criminal justice for the force, said, “We have been looking at a system which is based on the traditions of aboriginal tribes, but in a more modern context has been w...
The Commission on English Prisons Today- presided over by Cherie Booth QC- launched its final report yesterday - with a demand to cut prison numbers and reinvest money in communities. It is unequivocal. Our criminal justice system is in crisis. A decade and a half of penal excess means that we lock up too
