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The Justice Gap

• Queen’s Speech: ‘making may subjects easier to seck’
  There was much pomp and ceremony at Westminster as the Queen set out her Government’s legislative programme for the forthcoming parliamentary session earlier this month.  As expected, the Queen’s Speech more...
  
  
• Welcome to Britain
  After arriving at Gatwick Airport at midnight, I spent an hour queuing at passport control. It was inconvenient but hardly life-threatening. For the many young children, and for the elderly more...
  
  
• Sam Hallam, and the death penalty
  Now here’s something to make you think, especially those who support the return of capital punishment in the UK. Yesterday the prosecution in the case of Sam Hallam announced in more...
  
  
• Very evil demonic card (anag.)
  Chilling out on a decidedly chilly May bank holiday Monday with a fabulous, Leveson-themed cryptic crossword in the Independent, I was amused to learn that one anagram of News of more...
  
  
• Autistic teenager ‘failed by agencies’
  Last month the deputy coroner for West Yorkshire, Professor Paul Marks, announced the outcome of an inquest into the death of Gareth Oates. Gareth died on March 2nd 2010, less more...
  
  
• Are legal aid clients second class citizens?
  It is not often that I read something that makes my blood boil. When I do, it usually relates to some new proposal by our Government (of whatever political persuasion) more...
  
  
• Why we lose our homes needlessly
  Three years ago my job description was amended, from dealing with cases of private landlord harassment and illegal eviction, to include defending mortgage borrower’s in financial difficulty from repossession by more...
  
  
• More ‘elf & safety madness
  On 10 April, the Sun newspaper carried (under an ‘exclusive’ banner) a news story entitled ‘Hair Hitlers: EU rules to ban hairdressers from wearing rings and heels’. Under a photo of more...
  
  
• How experts missed rickets
  The Al-Alas Wray case centred around care proceedings brought by the local authority, the London Borough of Islington, in respect of the parents’ new born baby Jayda Wray, following the more...
  
  
• Wrong questions, soft targets
  ANALYSIS. Kim Evans on three important events looking at the investigation of miscarriages of justice in the last three weeks. ‘Whilst there are problems with the Criminal Case Review Commission more...