Criminal record checks system still broken, say campaigners – The Guardian
‘Legal rights campaign groups have described as a “disgrace” the government’s delay in reforming the criminal record checks system.’ Full StoryThe Guardian, 30th January 2020Source: www.theguardian.com
View ArticleStrasbourg Court rules against UK on police retention of data – UK Human...
‘Can the police indefinitely retain an individual’s DNA profile, fingerprints and photograph after they have been convicted? That was the question before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in...
View ArticleEXE v Governors of the Royal Naval School [2020] EWHC 596 QB – 39 Essex Chambers
‘The Defendants employed a 30 year old man “Hughes” as a kitchen porter from 15 October 1990 to 10 July 1991 at their school for girls. He was provided with accommodation on the school premises. The...
View ArticleHome Office barred from deporting Zimbabwean with HIV – The Guardian
‘UK Home Office efforts to deport an HIV-positive Zimbabwean man because of his lengthy criminal record have been blocked after the supreme court ruled removing him would breach his human rights.’ Full...
View ArticleDavid Lammy: ‘Ex-offenders should have the chance of a clean slate’ – The...
‘There are currently more than 11 million people in the UK with a criminal record. The latest research suggests that nearly three-quarters of ex-offenders are unemployed on release from prison, with...
View ArticleBrexit: UK to ban more EU citizens with criminal records – BBC News
‘Many more EU citizens with criminal records will be barred from entering the UK from January, the Home Office has said.’ Full StoryBBC News, 22nd October 2020Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticleNew criminal record disclosure rules take effect – UK Human Rights Blog
‘On the 28th November 2020, The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Record Certificates: Relevant Matters) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 (“the Order”) came into force, implementing important changes...
View ArticleGreater Manchester Police ‘failed to record 80,000 crimes in a year’– BBC News
‘England’s second-largest police force failed to record more than 80,000 crimes in a year and closed cases without proper investigation, a watchdog has found.’ Full StoryBBC News, 10th December...
View ArticleTechnical issue resolved after ‘150,000 police records lost – BBC News
‘The government is assessing the impact of a “technical issue” that led to 150,000 records being deleted from police databases.’ Full StoryBBC News, 15th January 2021Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticlePriti Patel publishes new strategy to protect children from sexual abuse –...
‘The Home Secretary has today published a first-of-its-kind national strategy to protect children from all forms of child sexual abuse. The Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy sets out how the...
View ArticleA thousand young, black men removed from Met gang violence prediction...
‘One thousand young, black men have been removed from an allegedly discriminatory gangs database used by police in London, after a review found they posed no or little risk of committing violence, the...
View ArticleHome Office admits 15,000 people deleted from police records – The Guardian
‘A blunder led to the records of more than 15,000 people being deleted in their entirety from the Police National Computer, the Home Office has admitted. News of the data loss emerged last month, but...
View ArticleGovernment urged to ensure convicted sex offenders cannot work as tutors –...
‘The government is being urged to close a legal loophole to stop convicted sex offenders working with children as private tutors.’ Full StoryBBC News, 25th February 2021Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticleUK failed to inform EU countries about almost 200 killers and rapists – The...
‘The conviction of 109 killers, 81 rapists and a man found guilty of both crimes in UK courts was not passed on to the criminals’ home EU countries due to a massive computer failure and subsequent...
View ArticleWomen ‘almost twice as likely’ to have criminal records disclosed when...
‘Women are almost twice as likely as men to have their criminal records disclosed when applying for a job, and to suffer “sustained stigma” from employers, a new study has found.’ Full StoryThe...
View ArticleHome Office unlawfully refused Windrush citizens status over minor criminal...
‘Windrush victims have been unlawfully denied British citizenship on the grounds of minor criminal records, the High Court has ruled. In a judgement handed down on Friday, the Home Office was found to...
View ArticleDropping of stalkers’ register from bill an ‘insult to victims’ – The Guardian
‘Ministers have been accused of misleading and insulting victims after a push by a cross-party group of peers to create an automatic register of dangerous domestic abusers and stalkers was dropped.’...
View ArticleDeleted police records were on outdated 1970s IT system – BBC News
‘Urgent reforms are needed after thousands of crime records were wrongly deleted from an outdated IT system developed in the 1970s, a report says.’ Full StoryBBC News, 24th May 2021Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticleMisogyny as a hate crime – what it means and why it’s needed – Family Law
‘In recent weeks, the government announced that it will instruct all police forces across the UK to start recording crimes motivated by sex or gender on an experimental basis- effectively making...
View ArticleNew Judgment: R (on the application of A) v Secretary of State for the Home...
‘The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed this appeal concerning the standards to be applied by a court on judicial review of the contents of a policy document or statement of practice issued by a...
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