The Home Secretary, Teresa May recently said “We need to make anti-social behaviour what it once was, unusual, abnormal and something to stand up to, instead of what it has become frequent, normal and tolerated…it is time to move beyond the ASBO.” Read more...
The government has announced plans to try and reduce the prison population by reviewing sentencing policy and stopping short custodial sentences. Coupled with this will be a reduction in funding for the probation service whilst at the same time paying private firms and groups according to how many prisoners they rehabilitate. The aim they say is to turn criminals into law abiding citizens.
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Convicted defendants (and their partners) are facing higher, in some cases ruinous, legal costs. But what about those acquitted? Naturally, they do not have to meet the costs of their prosecution, but what of their own costs?
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