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Brown and May join renewed calls for Hillsborough Law

Gordon Brown and Theresa May have given their support for key changes to the legal system to prevent others going through what the bereaved families of Britain’s worst sporting disaster experienced over decades. Ninety-seven men, women and children died in the tragedy at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in Sheffield on […] […]

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Report published on use of covert powers

Mistakes made around Internet Protocol (IP) addresses continue to pose the greatest risk of a “serious error” by law enforcement agencies, according to the latest report on the use of covert powers in the UK. The annual report by the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, Sir Brian Leveson, says these errors can result in “significant harm” with […] […]

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Crisis of confidence: can Britain’s police recover public trust?

In a square outside Barking town hall, east London, a sombre-faced Helen Ball, assistant commissioner in the Metropolitan Police, on Friday walked nervously up to a bank of microphones and cameras. She had come to apologise, minutes after an inquest jury had delivered their verdict on what they called “fundamental failings” in the force’s investigation […] […]