Jack Straw

Bill will see expert witnesses identified in family courts

Justice minister hopes measure will restore confidence Expert witnesses in family courts will be identified under new legislation the government is proposing to put through the last parliament before a general election next...

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Rowan Williams prepares to meet the Pope

Some say the Archbishop of Canterbury is not muscular enough in his condemnations of sin, but to his defenders he is a prelate of rare warmth and humility who can connect with a public disinclined to listen to the Church

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Focus on knife carriers not just killers says dad

THE father of a murdered Harry Potter actor has cautiously welcomed plans to increase the minimum term for knife murders from 15 to 25 years. Colin Knox, of Ingress Park, Greenhithe, whose son Rob Knox, 18, was knifed to death...

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A turning point for the constitution | Peter Facey

From Cromwell to Cameron, the system has been defined by the rot at its centre. Now at last people can see how deep it goes Whisper it, but there is something very silly indeed about the UK's famously uncodified constitution....

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Scientologists' volcanic reply

The attack on the Church of Scientology as a ''criminal organisation'' by the South Australian senator Nick Xenophon this week has sent the anti-Scientology movement into a spin but not for the obvious reason. Apart from...

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Two-thirds of women found with firearms escape prosecution

Almost two out of three women caught with firearms are not prosecuted, according to police figures revealed today. The Metropolitan Police said 88 out of 140 women caught carrying a weapon were given cautions in the year...

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Still extreme

Spectator 19 November 2009 By Melanie Phillips As has been pointed out here before, the idea that the Muslim Council of Britain spokesman Inayat Bunglawala is a reformed character who now espouses moderate and liberal attitudes...

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Anger at ‘cloak of secrecy’ for Freemason judges

Independent | Nov 10, 2009 By Ben Padley Jack Straw’s decision to no longer force applicants for the judiciary to declare if they are Freemasons was today branded a “disgrace” by a Labour MP. Gordon Prentice (Pendle) said there...

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Queen's Speech: leading lady let down by a dunking script

How the Queen must despair. There she is, making a huge effort, all dressed up in her white gown with a scarlet velvet train so unwieldy that it is the ceremonial dress equivalent of the bendy-bus and requires four pageboys to...

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Caught in a place of fantasy

I've been going to state openings for decades, and they get weirder. Obviously the Queen is a little older each year, and today she seemed to have a sore throat, so her catchphrase, "my lords, pray be seated", was almost...

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