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Articles tagged with: Crime, Justice & Rights
Betting shops and money laundering - are high street bookmakers safe? Partner content
Culture
By Association of British Bookmakers
Betting shops and money laundering - are high street bookmakers safe?
CEO of the Association of British Bookmakers, Malcolm George, explains why high street bookmakers are "the safest places to gamble in the UK."
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Home affairs
By Solicitors Regulation Authority
A Question of Trust campaign attracted thousands of responses from solicitors
The SRA has now closed one of the biggest consultations it has ever run, putting the views of the profession and the public at the heart of regulation.
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Home affairs
By Bar Council
Fixed costs proposal raises questions on access to justice
Bar Council Chair Chantal-Aime Doerries QC has responded to Lord Justice Jacksons speech on 28 January 2016 to the Insolvency Practitioners Association, Fixed Costs The Time has come, calling for recoverable costs to be fixed in all claims valued at up to 250,000.
Safer in Somalia? It's time to end London's street violence
Home affairs
By Chuka Umunna
Safer in Somalia? It's time to end London's street violence
Chuka Umunna MP says the continued violence experienced by vulnerable youth in the capital is ‘a damming indictment of the situation on London’s streets’ and calls for more to be done to prevent ‘these tragic deaths.’
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Home affairs
By National Audit Office
Accounts of the Office of Legal Complaints 2014-15
The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has today qualified his opinion on the 2014-15 Accounts of the Office for Legal Complaints (OLC) on the grounds of regularity.
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Home affairs
By Road Haulage Association
Using a hand-mobile phone while driving costs lives says RHA
The Road Haulage Association (@RHANews) welcomes the Department of Transport consultation proposing increased fixed noticed fines and penalty points for the drivers of heavy goods vehicles and other motorists caught using a hand-held mobile phone while driving.
Perverse culture of 'lawfare' profoundly affecting troop morale
Foreign affairs
By Richard Benyon
Perverse culture of 'lawfare' profoundly affecting troop morale
Former Government Minister and retired Army Officer, Richard Benyon MP, writes ahead of his Westminster Hall debate on: 'the Iraq Historic Allegations Team'.
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Economy
By Solicitors Regulation Authority
Complaints about SRA work drop again
The number of complaints about the work of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has dropped for the second year running.
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Education
By Association of Teachers and Lecturers
ATL comment on protecting children from radicalisation
Commenting on Government plans to help protect children against radicalisation, Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said:
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Education
By Solicitors Regulation Authority
Have your say on the proposed Solicitors Qualifying Examination
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is inviting solicitors, education and training providers and students to a series of consultation events on the proposed Solicitors Qualifying Examination.
SRA begins review of legal support for asylum seekers Partner content
Home affairs
By Solicitors Regulation Authority
SRA begins review of legal support for asylum seekers
The SRA has unveiled a programme of work to better understand how the legal service market serves asylum seekers.
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Home affairs
By Solicitors Regulation Authority
SRA welcomes CMA study into legal services
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has welcomed the announcement by the Competition and Markets Authority that the CMA will launch a market study into legal services.
Law Commission: Fitness-to-plead rules ‘out of date’ Partner content
Home affairs
By Law Commission
Law Commission: Fitness-to-plead rules ‘out of date’

New tests should be implemented to determine whether a defendant facing criminal charges is mentally fit to stand trial, according to the Law Commission.
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Home affairs
By Law Commission
Law Commission calls for a modern approach to unfitness to plead
A new test is needed to establish who is unfit to plead according to the Law Commission.
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Home affairs
By Police Federation of England and Wales
Police and Fire Services 'different', says Police Federation - we must not change status quo just to cut costs
PFEW Chair urges caution over 'radical transformation' of how police, fire and rescue services would co-operate, following Home Office announcement that it is taking control of fire and rescue policy in England.
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Home affairs
By Solicitors Regulation Authority
Research projects to inform the work of the SRA
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has set out its research programme for 2016, and has put protecting the public interest at its heart.
It's time to end Khartoum's 'blatant record' of human rights abuse
Foreign affairs
By Lord Chidgey
It's time to end Khartoum's 'blatant record' of human rights abuse
Lord Chidgey warns that millions of children are facing 'certain death' in Darfur and are being denied access lifesaving intervention by humanitarian agencies.
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Home affairs
By Police Federation of England and Wales
Limited increase of police force budgets dependent on increase of council precept
Police Federation responds to Police Grant Report 2016/17
Regulator launches plans for standardised solicitors test Partner content
Home affairs
By Solicitors Regulation Authority
Regulator launches plans for standardised solicitors test
The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s Director of Education and Training, Julia Brannan, tells PoliticsHome why the absence of a common bar for solicitors in the UK is harming the industry.
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Home affairs
By Solicitors Regulation Authority
Thousands have their say on solicitors' standards
More than 4,000 people have already had their say in a national campaign looking at what should happen when solicitors fall short of expected standards.
5 children per constituency: UK must protect 'vulnerable' unaccompanied refugee children Partner content
Foreign affairs
By Save the Children
5 children per constituency: UK must protect 'vulnerable' unaccompanied refugee children
CEO of Save the Children, Justin Forsyth, warns that unaccompanied refugee children are being targeted for exploitation and abuse, and calls upon the UK to do its 'fair share' in offering them asylum. 
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Home affairs
By College of Policing
Direct Entry at inspector rank to be introduced
The College of Policing today announced plans to launch a new programme for Direct Entry at inspector rank.
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Home affairs
By Law Society
Proposals to widen access to the legal profession could have the opposite effect, warns Law Society
Social mobility and the global competitiveness of UK law could be damaged bythe removal ofcurrentapproved routes to qualifying as a solicitor, the Law Society warned today.
Give willing UK families a chance to foster refugee children
Foreign affairs
By Tim Farron MP
Give willing UK families a chance to foster refugee children
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron calls for the Government to provide a sanctuary for unaccompanied migrant children already in Europe.