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BREACH COURTS LEAD TO JAIL FOR SOME

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 16. Jun. 2010. – 15:31:04  About a month ago a friend who lives a couple of hundred miles away and whose twenty something daughter was know...

SHORT SENTENCES ARE NOT TO BE DISPOSED OF

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  14. Jun. 2010. – 16:05:31 I am somewhat disturbed to read today that Secretary of State for Justice Kenneth Clarke has indicated that he...

JUSTICE SEEN TO BE DONE BY "TIME SERVED"

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  11. Jun. 2010. – 11:13:10 Jacob, whose immigration status was unclear, had arrived here two or three years ago from a central African co...

STUDENT LAW BREAKERS AND VERY SEVERE CONSEQUENCES

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  10. Jun. 2010. – 13:29:27 The notorious Harold Shipman whose name will live alongside Crippen in the annals of rogue medical murderers ....

STAFFORDSHIRE CRIME STATISTICS GOING UP AND DOWN

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 08. Jun. 2010. – 16:00:45  This blog is for the happy cops bringing down the crime rate in Staffordshire and the unhappy cops in Staffords...

JEKYLL AND HYDE PROSECUTIONS

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  07. Jun. 2010. – 10:41:51 When Robert Louis Stevenson published "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" in 1886 little did...

SENTENCING IS AS FASHIONABLE AS WOMENS` HEMLINES

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  06. Jun. 2010. – 13:57:25 "Pleading guilty to the police should be rewarded with a lighter sentence", said Lord Leveson Court...

OFF THE GUIDELINES JUDICIAL SENTENCING

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  05. Jun. 2010. – 14:04:49 The judiciaries` sentencing powers have long been a political dog for the government`s bones. The bones are li...

DANGEROUS DOGS ;TIME FOR THE LAW TO BITE BACK

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  04. Jun. 2010. – 12:58:07 Thankfully most people do not come into contact with the legal process with the possible exception of when the...

HOW MANY POLICE DOES IT TAKE TO ???

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  02. Jun. 2010. – 16:03:59 Are the following statistics for 2009 concerning the numbers of police officers in England and Wales worthy o...

NO MORE ROGUE CAR CLAMPERS IN 2011

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 02. Jun. 2010. – 15:36:39  Every car owner knows about it, tries to avoid it and feels like spitting blood when unfortunately comes face to...

NO USHER; NO COURT; NO JUSTICE

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 29. May. 2010. – 13:45:14  Imagine an athletics meeting where the athletes did not have a schedule of events; chaos would not adequately de...

REGULATION OF INVESTIGATORY POWERS ACT 2000

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 28. May. 2010. – 16:58:43  The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act [2000] is a perfidious and odious part of the all enveloping snooping...

IDENTITY CARDS BURIED WITH LABOUR!

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 27. May. 2010. – 14:06:37  Libertarians and perhaps many others not so single minded about retaining their privacy in an increasingly big b...

NOT ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR

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27. May. 2010. – 12:13:52  Those of us who are literate enough to read and/or write assimilate so much information on a daily basis that our...

POLICE, HUMANISM AND DIVERSITY

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  26. May. 2010. – 12:05:52 It never ceases to amaze me that police forces have moved in a couple of generations from what could loosely b...

DRUGS IN PRISONS

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  24. May. 2010. – 11:20:38 To argue in the negative is always a difficult task. To remember negative thoughts or activities or perhaps th...

SHORT PRISON SENTENCES ARE A NECESSITY

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 23. May. 2010. – 13:35:08  Being a long serving member of an urban bench, meeting and sitting with newly appointed colleagues is usually a ...

MAGISTRATES AND COMMON SENSE

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 18. May. 2010. – 13:17:45  In order to be appointed as Justices of the Peace applicants have to jump through a fair number of hoops and tha...

WHEN A WIFE GIVES EVIDENCE IN HER HUSBAND`S DEFENCE

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 @ 17. May. 2010. – 11:18:41  Most people are aware that, generally speaking, a wife cannot be forced to testify against her husband. Consis...

KENNETH CLARKE and TRULY a C.J.S.S.S.

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 16. May. 2010. – 13:33:17  It`s not often that a government, especially one in the midst of a financial crisis it has been elected to allev...

EMPLOYERS -V - EMPLOYEES

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 15. May. 2010. – 13:41:50  Once upon a time in a far off land there was a boss and there were his workers. And for reasons unknown and not ...

WARNINGS FROM THE BENCH ON FUTURE SENTENCING

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 14. May. 2010. – 11:05:20  Within the Magistrates` Courts system, at least as far as Justices of the Peace are advised by their legal advis...

A NEW BEGINNING WITH A NEW SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE?

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 13. May. 2010. – 17:53:00  It seems a trojan had invaded my cyber fortress when I was last posting on Pagan Police despite the efforts of S...

A MAGISTRATE`S ILL JUDGED RANTS?

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 10. May. 2010. – 18:19:19  Having the luxury of a couple of hours for doing the garden or watching Sky News I chose the latter. Perhaps som...