by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | May 31, 2022 | Crime
The Home Office has reported that their ‘whole-system’ approach to violent crime is working while also announcing further funding to tackle serious violence. The press release states that Violence Reduction Units and ‘hotspot policing’...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | May 31, 2022 | Information
The Home Office has published a report that summarises information from domestic homicide reviews (DHR) from October 2019 to 2020. The reviews are multi-agency reviews that are commissioned by community safety partnerships. They look into the deaths of adults that may...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | May 31, 2022 | Information
The Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, has announced a reform package for the parole system. A “Root and Branch” review focussed on the following areas: • An evaluation of the parole reforms to date – looking at overall performance, the response to the...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | May 31, 2022 | Information
The College of Policing has published a guide to the use of live facial recognition technology. The guide is intended to ensure a consistent approach across forces with a clear legal and ethical framework. The College sets out five aims for the guidance: • live facial...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | May 28, 2022 | Information
For the first time, the Justice Secretary has intervened and overruled a decision of the Parole Board to move a prisoner to an open prison. In 1998 Stephen Ling was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Joanne Tulip on Christmas Day 1997. Ling had met Ms...
