There is a very interesting article in Inside Time regarding difficulties faced by ex prisoners in obtaining insurance. Thanks largely to the efforts of Sale Insurance Services (SIS) insurance discrimination against ex prisoners is soon to be a thing of the past. “Things are improving year on year and this month (April 2013) a change [...]
Duty of disclosure to be eased for ex-prisoners with convictions seeking insurance cover
May 3, 2013 from Leave a Comment
Cleaning up the Act – Inside Time Article
February 18, 2013 from Leave a Comment
Our attention has been drwan to an article entitled Cleaning Up the Act by Stanley Best, a barrister and former Chairman of the British Legal Association, in Inside Time February issue 2013 in which he casts a practised eye over recent legal stories
Criminal defence lawyers against the media – a lost battle
January 7, 2013 from Leave a Comment
There is a very interesting and thought provoking article by Joseph Kotrie-Monson, in the January Inside Time newspaper (here) in which he argues that Press reporting of criminal cases has become massively biased and anti-defendant in recent years and, in some instances, makes it very difficult to obtain a fair trial. In the article Joseph Kotrie-Monson of Mary Monson Solicitors [...]
Leading investigative journalist Bob Woffinden looks at media hysteria and the misleading of the public
December 2, 2012 from Leave a Comment
This is an extract taken from Insidetime magazine. A growing number of people in Britain firmly believe that thiscountry would be fairer and more just, as well as more prosperous,were it not for the consistently malignant influence of the tabloid press. It is, however, of some importance to note that, as Richard Webster pointed out in his book The [...]
The Mysterious MAPPA
May 3, 2012 from Leave a Comment
There is a very good article by Emma Davies and Lucy Batten, solicitors from Hine Solicitors in this months Insidetime issue. The mysterious MAPPA… MAPPA applies to a large number of inmates in England and Wales and you may therefore have previously heard the term or seen it referred to in reports compiled by the Probation [...]