Law

Jimmy Tarbuck

Jimmy Tarbuck case highlights concerns over secret arrests

From the people that brought you secret courts…please welcome to the stage..secret arrests. Sounds like the header for a bad comedy doesn’t it? But this latest scandal over Jimmy Tarbuck has proved to be no laughing matter. Less than a week after UK MPs effectively voted away the right to fair trial in Britain by paving the way for secret[Read More…]

Secret court hits headlines after raiding family assets

Secret court hits headlines after raiding family assets

Secret courts have carried out raids on the homes of British people all over the UK whilst seizing family assets it has been revealed. The Court of Protection is currently in control of £2 billion worth of assets belonging to thousands of elderly and vulnerable people in the country. The interest rate – currently much less than they would receive[Read More…]

CIA and MI6 in bribery row

CIA and MI6 in bribery row

  MI6 and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)  is at the centre of a bribery row after it emerged that that they have given tens of millions of dollars in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to Afghan President Hamid Karzai for more than ten years. The so-called “ghost money” was reportedly given to buy ‘influence’ in the country and[Read More…]

Police plan to fit elderly with tracking devices

Police plan to fit elderly with tracking devices

  Police have announced plans to fit tracking devices into elderly dementia sufferers to avoid “costly call-outs” to search for patients who go missing. Sussex Police have purchased 15 of the devices and said that it would prevent the time spent on searching for elderly people who go missing. They have estimated that one-in-four of more than 300 missing persons[Read More…]

“Kids for cash” judge jailed prison bribes

“Kids for cash” judge jailed prison bribes

  A US judge has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for taking bribes from a prison developer after years of sending young teenagers to jail for minor crimes. In a bitter twist of irony, former Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was jailed and ordered to pay nearly $1.2 million for his part in a “kids for cash scheme”.[Read More…]