Law & Enforcement
Below are our 9 articles in the law & enforcement' category:
The UK lawbooks are stuffed to overflowing with new laws that have been passed to make our lives better, easier or safer. The Human Rights Act is...
Anyone convicted of a crime in the UK, or being held on remand pending trial, will not be able to avail themselves of the full extent of the rights...
When people think of slavery they think in terms of early American History, of slave ships and press-gangs. But slavery is a real problem even in...
The spectre of terrorism is something that we have all had to learn to live with in recent years. From the atrocities of 9/11 and 7/7 to suicide...
Pick up any dictionary and you will find something along these lines: ‘To cause extreme physical pain esp. To extract information. To give mental...
As we all know, just because a person is charged with a crime it does not mean that they are guilty. The principle of innocent until proven guilty...
The word ‘detainee’ tends to evoke media pictures of inmates at Guantanamo Bay or remind us of articles about supposed secret internment camps for...
The rights of suspects before, during and after arrest are the subject of endless volumes of case-law, articles and debate. This is due, in part,...
Nobody ever wants to be a victim, and hopefully we will never be faced with the pain or trauma of a crime being committed against us, or the...
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