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...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | May 26, 2022 | Crime
The common law has long had a concept of “reasonable chastisement” when it comes to disciplining children. A parent or person in loco parentis may administer reasonable corporal punishment, although concepts of “reasonableness” have narrowed....
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | May 13, 2022 | Information
The government has announced further projects as part of the Prison Leavers Project, which is a cross-government initiative helping offenders released from prison. Statistics demonstrate that offenders who are released from prison without an address are approximately...
