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by Rt Hon Sadiq Khan MP, shadow lord chancellor and justice secretary
In these straitened economic times, savings must be found across the whole criminal justice system. But with the dust barely settled on the advice deserts created by the government’s brutal cuts to civil legal aid, ministers are now seeking further reductions. This time the target is criminal legal aid.
What is most notable about UKIP’s 2013 local ‘manifesto’ is not its brevity, but its banality. We know about the dog-whistle scapegoating of ‘immigrants’ and ‘travellers’. What else is there?
UKIP believes council tax should go down, tax generally should be ‘as low as possible’ (zero, 10%, 20%, what?), and that ‘real decision-making should be given to local communities’. Money should be spent on local services, the greenbelt must be protected, and there must always be honey still for tea.
by Nehal Vasani is a solicitor at west London firm Stringfellow & Co
Chris Grayling’s plans for price-competitive tendering will devalue the rule of law.
If April is the cruellest month, then March 2013 has laid claim to being quite the opposite. There has been a definite whiff of official compassion in the air.
The Home Office a few days ago (26 March) told a grateful nation that it was to relax the rules around criminal records checks, for which more than four million people had to apply in 2011-12. The new spirit of clemency follows a January Court of Appeal ruling that blanket checks for an offender’s lifetime do not comply with human rights law.
It’s almost a decade since the Gazette first reported that Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa had been beaten up and thrown into jail. And now she is behind bars again.
The Law Society and the International Bar Association have both called for her immediate release, but today she still in police custody, charged with ‘obstructing the course of justice’.
After years of international protests against Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s regime, the rule of law is still as remote as ever.
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