The worst benefit cheats could face up to ten years in jail under tough new guidelines announced by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Scotland Yard has said in a statement that their nine-hour detention of David Miranda, the boyfriend on Glenn Greenwald, was legally sound under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, but was it a misuse or abuse of powers?
Government plans to cut £220 million from the annual criminal case legal aid budget in England and Wales by putting contracts out to tender has come under fire from barristers who say it promoted the “lowest possible quality of service”.
The DWP has introduced “emergency legislation” in an attempt to avoid the Court of Appeal’s “Poundland ruling” which found almost all the government’s “work-for-your-benefit” employment schemes unlawful.
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