Once again the possibility of an increase in the national speed limit has hit the public debate circuit. Since 1965 the national speed limit has been 70 mph on otherwise unrestricted motorways and dual carriageways. The clear connection between speed and accidents appears to have somehow slipped under the radar however. The higher the driven speed the higher the risk of […]
Although the Home Secretary may have been slightly hyperbolic, if not histrionic, when she compared coercive control as being ‘tantamount to torture’, her general point that the issue is one for the criminal justice system, as well as the family justice system, is well made. Therefore, a new offence of domestic abuse will soon be on our […]
Police Bail has been the subject of public and political scrutiny recently. On the one hand our police need a ‘mechanism’ which allows them to investigate allegations thoroughly and in a way that is proportionate to the nature of the allegation, commensurate with available resources; on the other hand suspects need to know, sooner rather […]
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