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Welcome to the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site
This site provides an online resource to UK criminal solicitors and includes a forum area to discuss the ever changing world of criminal law, and criminal contracting.
There are several important features of this site that cannot be accessed unless you have registered as a member and logged in to the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net site:
- Case Law Updater - the Case Law updater contains cases that the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net team consider to be important/relevant to criminal practitioners. The Case Law Updater does not contain every new case, but it does contain on cases that are of paramount importance.
- Legislation Updater - the Legislation Updater covers legislation created since April 2004 that is relevant to criminal law and includes items such as Statutory Instruments, Bills and Acts. The Legislation Updater allows you to peruse relevant legislation with summaries and view the full content of the legislation as published on the Office of Public Sector Information web site.
- Newsletter - web site members who opt to receive the weekly Criminal Solicitor Dot Net Newsletter receive by e-mail a newsletter containing legal news, contracting news, case law updates, and legislation updates. The newsletter contains links to reports and updates contained within the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site.
- Free CPD - The Solicitors Regulation Authority has approved the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site to provide CPD credits through distance learning courses.
- Download Centre - this contains documents that are relevant to all areas of criminal practice and includes consultation documents and responses.
We would like to encourage all users to post questions, answers, messages in the forums sections - by sharing your knowledge you could be helping another user.
If you would like to know more about this site then please look at the FAQ section .
Recommend this site
If you find the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net site useful then please recommend it to a friend or colleague.
Questions or comments ?
If you have any questions or comments to make then please use the forums.
The Criminal Solicitor Dot Net Team.
Why is this web site here?
The Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site was established to provide an open forum for users to discuss UK criminal law. There are several resources available to criminal solicitors on the internet but none were seen as being open or user friendly in the way that the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net portal is. Criminal Solicitor Dot Net is not affiliated with any professional organisation and has no agenda to serve - it exists as it does for the purpose of open discussion.
Who runs the web site
The Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site is run by Gavin Burrell with the assistance of two others. Gavin Burrell is a solicitor who works for a firm in Southend, Essex, practicing solely in criminal work.
Who pays for the web site?
The portal is not operated for profit or gain and no membership fees/subscription fees are charged. The costs in operating this portal are generally absorbed by the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net team if income generated from advertising does not meet the hosting costs. The biggest cost in running the portal is time spent ensuring that up to date information is delivered to our registered users.
Discussion forums
The Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site provides registered users the ability to read and post messages in the discussion forums. The forums are arranged in appropriate sections where a user can engage in discussion with other users about any given topic.
Criminal law
The forums are particularly useful for discussing criminal law. Requests are often made for opinions on legal scenarios, and guidance given on new or established legislation. The forums are not to be used by people seeking legal advice on their own case.
Criminal contracting
Criminal contracting is at the heart of many UK crime practices and the discussion forums allow our registered users to interact and discuss impending changes to criminal contracting.
Updater
The Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site provides an updater service to ensure that our registered users are informed of changes to case law and legislation. The updater service is split in to two areas.
Case law
We provide a case law updater service. We endeavour to post updates to the web site on a daily basis. We report on case law that we believe to be of paramount importance to UK criminal law. We provide summaries for the cases in the updater and where judgments are freely available online for the cases a copy of the judgment also appears in the updater.
Legislation
We check legislation on a daily basis to ensure that our registered users are aware of new Acts, proposed Bills, Statutory Instruments and Draft Statutory Instruments. Without taking advantage of an updater service a criminal practitioner cannot expect to keep up to date with legislative changes. The legislative updater provides a summary of the important parts of that legislation and copies of the full text of the legislation in question.
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A pioneering police unit aimed at taking the most dangerous dogs off the streets has seized more than 1,000 animals in its first year.
The Metropolitan Police's status dog unit was formed to tackle the growing problem of violent animals in the capital.
The team, made up of a sergeant, five constables and civilian worker, is responsible for targeting those who breed, sell and fight dogs. |
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Violent attacks are estimated to be 44 per cent higher than they were in 1998 after research on the way police record them allowed comparisons for the first time.
The study, by the independent House of Commons Library, shows violence against the person increased from 618,417 to 887,942 last year.
The devastating review comes despite repeated claims by the Government that violent crime has come down substantially since it took power. |
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If Jon Venables appears in the dock in a magistrates’ court, few will know his true identity. Even his Liverpudlian accent will be barely discernible as he confirms his false name to the court.
Now 27 years old, he is one of four criminals whose anonymity is enshrined in law. In January 2001, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss imposed a lifetime order guaranteeing him and Robert Thompson, his accomplice in the James Bulger murder, anonymity. It was an attempt to protect the 20th century’s youngest convicted killers from attempts on their life.
In her ruling, then the President of the Family Division of the High Court noted that there was still “a sense of moral outrage” surrounding the murder of the two-year-old boy. That outrage has not dimmed. |
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Viewers of television programmes such as Crimewatch, Waking the Dead and Cold Case could be forgiven for believing that DNA is integral to solving almost every grisly crime.
But according to a report released by MPs tonight as few as one in every 1,300 crimes reported to the police is solved by the Government's Big Brother DNA database.
The research shows that - despite the massive expansion in the database - only 3,666 crimes are detected every year with links to an existing DNA profile. |
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"Serious questions" need to be answered about the supervision by the probation service of Jon Venables, one of the murderers of toddler James Bulger, the Conservatives warned yesterday after a report claimed the killer's recall to prison was due to suspicion of child pornography offences.
Chris Grayling, the shadow Home Secretary, said something had "gone wrong" in the care of Venables, now 27, after claims that he had been abusing drugs and alcohol, broken an order banning him from visiting Liverpool by attending an Everton match, and revealing his true identity, after a new one was created for him when he was freed on lifetime licence.
Ministers refused to be drawn into the growing row over the nature of the allegations faced by Venables after a Sunday newspaper reported that his recall 12 days ago was due to claims relating to pornographic images of children. Other reports claimed Venables had been working as a nightclub bouncer and has already disclosed his identity to officers and inmates in prison. |
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Kerb-crawlers can be arrested on their first offence under new laws designed to tackle the demand for prostitution, Home Office minister Alan Campbell has announced.
And a poster campaign launched to coincide with International Women's Day will warn potential 'punters' of new criminal fines of up to £1,000 for having sex with a woman forced into prostitution against her will.
Changes to the law coming into effect on April 1 will remove a requirement for police to establish that a man is 'persistently' kerb-crawling before arresting him. |
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Jon Venables, one of the killers of James Bulger, was recalled to custody over a claim about child pornography.
Ministers have refused to confirm allegations that he is in prison on suspicion of committing child-porn offences. It has also been claimed that probation officers were concerned that he had been disclosing his real name.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said: “We cannot confirm or deny anything with regard to this.” |
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A Conservative government could find itself at war with police chiefs amid accusations that some are too close to the Labour Party.
A Tory briefing document, seen by The Times, attacks the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), which represents the 350 most senior officers in England and Wales.
The note, written in Conservative campaign headquarters, accuses the association’s leaders of giving “political cover to the Labour Government repeatedly and consistently” and engaging in “gratuitous photocalls” with Gordon Brown and other ministers. |
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The Director of Public Prosecutions today said new guidelines on assisted suicide would not have "too many hard edges".
Keir Starmer QC will issue the directions this morning after a Law Lords ruling that the law be clarified.
But speaking ahead of the release Mr Starmer said the rules will not be rigid, or attempt to give a definitive answer for every situation. |
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Gordon Brown today spared his Attorney-General the sack for employing an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper, but ordered her to apologise "profusely" over the affair.
Baroness Scotland of Asthal, the Government's top law officer, was fined £5,000 for breaching UK Border Agency rules on employing migrant workers after the agency found that she had employed a Tongan woman who did not have the right to work in the UK.
Although Lady Scotland carried out the immigration status checks required by the Act, which she helped to pilot through Parliament, she failed to keep photocopies as proof that the checks had been made. |
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