Law

Clampdown on websites promoting suicide

Ministers want to rewrite Suicide Act to clarify it also applies to internet after spate of deaths in Bridgend, south Wales

Rachel Stevenson and agencies

17, Sep, 2008 @2:36 PM

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Trial begins of Briton charged with Vukovar massacre

Corby locksmith Milorad Pejic appears in war crimes court accused of murdering more than 200 people during Balkan conflict

Audrey Gillan

15, Sep, 2008 @3:16 PM

Lawyers' drive for diversity hindered by multiple rows

Attempts to attract applicants from diverse backgrounds undermined by claims of racial discrimination

Afua Hirsch

14, Sep, 2008 @11:01 PM

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Fears over privacy as police expand surveillance project

National network of roadside cameras will 'read' 50m licence plates a day, with data kept for five years

Paul Lewis

14, Sep, 2008 @11:01 PM

Home Office consultants pay price after prisoner data loss

Firm who lost data stick containing details of 84,000 inmates sacked by Home Office

Alan Travis, home affairs editor

10, Sep, 2008 @11:01 PM

Letter: The courts are for justice, not profits

Letter: Now it seems that justice has its price, and the system can only work if it pays for itself

07, Sep, 2008 @11:01 PM

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Hindu seeks court ruling on open-air cremations

A Hindu man is to ask the high court to overturn a ban on open-air cremations to allow the ancient religious ritual to take place in Britain

Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent

05, Sep, 2008 @3:20 PM

Leaked letter warns of courts crisis over £90m 'black hole' in budget

Court sittings could be cancelled, trials delayed and magistrates made redundant

Alan Travis, home affairs editor

03, Sep, 2008 @11:01 PM

Letter: Croatian singer's right to free speech

Letter: Slavenka Drakulic seems miffed that the HHO has supported pop singer Marko Perkovic Thompson's 'right to perform'

01, Sep, 2008 @11:01 PM

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Home Office crime warning blindingly obvious, says minister

Tony McNulty says there is nothing unusual about leaked letter warning of effects of economic downturn on crime and extremism

Nicholas Watt and Andrew Sparrow

01, Sep, 2008 @9:35 AM

Police may be given powers to question child suspects alone

Ministers also announce their intention to push ahead with plans for 'shopping centre jails'

Alan Travis, home affairs editor

28, Aug, 2008 @11:01 PM

Tories call for data loss prosecutions

Government urged to criminalise 'knowingly or recklessly' losing information after latest security breach fiasco

Jamie Doward, home affairs editor

23, Aug, 2008 @11:01 PM

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