Thanks to the Jeremy Vine Show over lunch: Spitting, swearing and aggressive behaviour will be BANNED from ‘Proud Preston’. … Anyone who flouts the tough new code could be arrested or fined by patrolling police officers or council enforcers. Council officers can fine people £75 for offences like littering, while […]
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Bill to allow Commons searches with no warrant — The Independent
From The Independent: The vow by Commons Speaker Michael Martin to prevent “unauthorised” raids on MPs’ offices in the wake of the Damian Green affair was seriously undermined last night as it emerged that the Government is preparing new laws to allow investigators to mount parliamentary searches without a warrant. […]
Read MoreWhy the Damian Green affair vacillates between tragedy and farce: the law is a mess
A key problem underlying the Green affair may be that no one really knows what powers the police have of entry and seizure, or ought to have, in Parliament or anywhere else. The CPS paper “Crossing the Threshold” is rather long, but it precisely identifies this problem and proposes a […]
Read MoreUpdated and brought forward: “Am I a criminal?”
Excellent comment from The Times: This Government has relentlessly undermined the rule of law by its vague legislation and constant meddling. And, after explaining that the first erosion of the rule of law is passing “laws so vague that you cannot know, prior to the decision of the relevant authority, […]
Read MoreLie detector tests to catch benefit cheats
The Guardian reports proposals for an increase in automated summary justice in combination with cries for “fair rules”: Benefit claimants will face lie detector tests and will lose benefits for a month if found guilty of fiddling the system under proposals unveiled by Gordon Brown on the eve of today’s […]
Read More“The Speaker has let us down in something of incalculable importance”
Richard Bacon MP on conservativehome.com: The right to oppose the government of the day is vastly more important than which political party happens to hold office. It is the cardinal fact which defines us as a free country. read more
Read MoreMandelson plans list of firms to save from bankruptcy – Guardian
Lord Mandelson is drawing up plans to choose which businesses and industries are important enough to be saved in the event of their going bankrupt as the recession bites, the Guardian can reveal. In his first newspaper interview since returning to the cabinet, the business secretary said he planned a […]
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