Are UK Police using Palantir technologies?
By Cicero’s Newsroom Palantir’s Shadow?: UK Police Use of Controversial Data Software Shrouded in Secrecy The Metropolitan Police has refused to confirm or deny whether it has used software developed by Palantir Technologies, the controversial U.S. data analytics company increasingly embedded in law enforcement and public services worldwide. In response Continue Reading
PETER SULLIVAN: LONGEST MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
Peter Sullivan spent over 38 years in jail for the murder of 21-year-old Diane Sindall in Birkenhead in 1986, which is considered the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history. Sindall was due to be married and worked behind the bar at the Wellington pub in Bebington. She was walking Continue Reading
Worldwide Legal News June 2024
Representatives from Liberty, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Inclusion London held a press briefing in Westminster to urge politicians and the public to remain vigilant about human rights issues during the election campaign. They warned about the reduction in worker’s and migrant’s rights in recent years and called for Continue Reading
Liberty wins legal opposition to IPA
Human rights organisation Liberty has won a landmark victory in a legal challenge against government bodies’ powers to spy on the UK population. The High Court of Justice ruled that it is unlawful for security services, including MI5, MI6, and GCHQ, to obtain individuals’ communications data from telecom providers without 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
