New Labour's legal aid folly
You ‘fat-cat’ solicitors are in reality doing more for less. Did you know that selling a grey squirrel is now against the law? There is gallows (sic) humour in the fact that New Labour has created 3,600 new criminal offences since it came to power 11 years ago. We choked over this statistic all over again while digesting Jack Straw’s l...
Joshua Rozenberg
Life on the inside
A scathing report of Paddington Green police station deals a blow to the 42-day lobby. The prospect of Parliament backing 42 days’ pre-charge detention in terrorist cases seems to have receded even further this week with the publication of an inside account of conditions at the police station where terrorist suspects are normally held. La...President's Podium
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