Law - new material (39)
01 August 2001
Annuario sociale 2001. Gruppo Abele, (Feltrinelli, Milan), pp955, Lit. 37,000.
An essential guide that includes detailed statistics and analytical essays and features concerning social issues. It is made up of nine sections: AIDS, Environment, Youth and children (including abuse, adoption, family rights, schooling, national service, etc.), Prison and the justice system, Crime and Mafia, Drugs, Immigration, Social issues (such as housing, the elderly, disabilities and mental health, traffic accidents, work, non-profit organisations and volunteers, population, poverty, prostitution, social protection, mental problems, suicides, violence and gypsies), International rights and conflicts. Contains excellent tables and exhaustive information for the meticulous researcher. Available from: Redazione - Ufficio Stampa & Comunicazione, Gruppo Abele, via Giolitti 21, 10123 Torino, Italy.
Reviewing Crown Prosecution Service decisions not to prosecute, M Burton. Criminal Law Review May 2001, pp374?384.
In recent years a number of ethnic minority families have sought judicial review of CPS decisions not to prosecute police officers and prison officers following the death of their relatives whilst in custody. This article examines the issues surrounding these cases and considers implications for judicial review of prosecutorial discretion more generally.
The Terrorism Act 2000, J Rowe. Criminal Law Review July 2001, pp527?542.
This article examines how the operation of the Act will affect human rights and how the principle of the European Convention on Human Rights may affect the exercise of powers under the Act.
List to the Right, C Fauset. Index on Censorship vol 30 no 3 2001, pp17?19.
This article looks at the Terrorism Act 2000 in conjunction with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001. The Act, the author concludes, is further evidence of the erosion of fundamental freedoms that produces a two-tier criminal justice system.
Trial by jury, Michael Mansfield. Socialist Lawyer no 33 (Summer) 2001, pp4-7.
This is an edited version of a talk to the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers in which Mansfield defends trial by jury and argues that the Mode of Trial Bills and the Auld report will "create a more expensive process." He argues that the Bar Council, the Law Society and large law firms will "have to start putting their money where their mouth is because this is going to be the last opportunity to make a stand".