Daily Archives: 2nd August 2016

Police station reps banned over convictions

The Law Gazette Two non-solicitor police station representatives authorised by the Legal Aid Agency have been banned from working in the legal profession after being convicted of criminal offences. The Solicitors Regulation Authority said it would be undesirable for Derek Martin Parker and John Bull to be involved in a legal practice without seeking permission…

We shouldn’t name those accused of sex crimes

The Times With so many innocent men having their reputations ruined, it’s time we went back to a system of automatic anonymity The media searchlight sweeps briefly over the face of the wrongly accused man: cleared of sexual offences; bathed in the light of vindication; the ordeal telling in the hollows and lines of his…