Victoria ATKINS – New health secretary
Victoria Atkins is a British politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Conservative Party. She has been associated with the Louth and Horncastle constituency since the 2015 general election. Victoria Atkins has also been involved in various roles within the government, particularly in the area of Home Continue Reading
Malkinson criticises compensation & to pay for his imprisonment
Andrew Malkinson has criticized the maximum amount of compensation payable under the miscarriage of justice compensation scheme, which capped £1 million for more than 10 years’ imprisonment. The 57-year-old’s conviction was quashed on July 26 after DNA linked another man to the crime. Malkinson believes that the £1 million compensation Continue Reading
Legal Weekly Human Rights Roundup
A report by Baroness Casey has revealed that 20% of Metropolitan Police officers facing allegations of sexual misconduct, misogyny, racism and homophobia had more than one complaint raised against them. Only less than 1% of officers facing multiple allegations had been dismissed from the force. Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Continue Reading
Court Sharing System Puts Justice System At Risk, say Solicitors
An IT program launched by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to facilitate information sharing between courts, solicitors, and police has been criticised for putting the justice system “at danger.” In the last several years, the Common Platform software system for the UK courts was implemented to give legal practitioners a Continue Reading
109 Civil Liberty Groups opose The Bill of Rights Bill
Statewatch, along with 122 other human rights, civil society and community organisations, are calling on MPs to vote against the proposed ‘Bill of Rights’, which would replace the Human Rights Act. The Bill of Rights Bill must be withdrawn and the Human Rights Act 1998 must be retained, as it Continue Reading
Lack of Diversity Will Hamper the Legal Profession
In 2022, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom had only one female judge, after the retirements of Lady Jill Black, Lady Mary Arden and Lady Brenda Hale. Despite the efforts of the current president, Lord Reed, to increase diversity, the court itself has stated that “there is no simple Continue Reading
