Policing and criminal justice system in United Kingdom
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Big gains for BNP in local elections
In the May municipal elections, the BNP increased its total number of local authority seats from twenty to fifty-two - on eighteen councils.
1 June 2006 (77 words)
'Moral panic' over foreign nationals released from prison
The home secretary, Charles Clarke, has lost his cabinet post after revelations that around 1,000 foreign nationals were released from prison following a prison sentence without being considered for deportation.
26 May 2006 (593 words)
Medical profession angry over new immigration regulations for overseas doctors
The British Medical Association (BMA) has criticised new immigration regulations which state that NHS trusts cannot recruit junior doctors from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) if there are suitable candidates from the UK or the EEA.
9 May 2006 (190 words)
Historians ridicule government citizenship guide
A number of historians have attacked the new 146-page government booklet on citizenship for containing a confusing array of historical errors, questionable suppositions and glaring misquotes.
29 April 2006 (95 words)
Home Office marriage regulations face legal challenge
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) is taking a test case against a provision of the 2004 Asylum and Immigration Act which states that citizens wishing to marry a foreign partner must address themselves to a specially designated register office where they have to meet strict eligibility criteria before their notice to marry is accepted.
19 January 2006 (275 words)
Anti-immigrant pressure group highlights 'arranged marriages'
The right-wing pressure group Migration Watch argues that strict limits on arranged marriages should be introduced to protect Britain from the creation of racial ghettos.
8 January 2006 (147 words)
Chief rabbi attacks multiculturalism
Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, speaking at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that Europe was more segregated today than it was twenty or thirty years ago, partly due to the failure of multiculturalism.
1 January 2006 (124 words)
Michael Menson: no police officers charged over failed investigation
No charges will be brought against any police officer in connection with the two botched investigations of the 1997 murder of the black musician Michael Menson (who was found on the street, doused in petrol and with multiple burns, from which he died) even though the Police Complaints Authority found negligence and racism in the investigations.
29 July 2003 (156 words)
Race attack victim wins damages against police
Francisco Borg, a 22-year-old black man sprayed with CS gas by police after pleading for protection from a gang of skinheads in 1997, has been awarded £40,000 in damages by Cardiff County Court.
29 July 2003 (91 words)
Deaths involving police
Christopher Alder - police cleared
29 July 2003 (525 words)
Racism and the courts
Oldham 'race riot' update: light sentences for neo-Nazis
29 July 2003 (189 words)
Police chief alleges migrant crime rise
The president of the Association of Chief Police Officers has alleged that 'massive migration and a whole new type of crime, from the Nigerian fraudster ... to the Jamaican concentration on drug dealing' was sweeping the country.
30 May 2003 (90 words)
Burnley 'riots': Asians win sentence reduction
Five Asian men, who defended their community against a white mob during rioting in Burnley in summer 2001, had their sentences slashed by the court of appeal.
11 April 2003 (74 words)
Home Secretary approves mosque raid to remove Afghani family
There was outrage after the home secretary approved a police operation to remove an Afghani family from a mosque where they had sought sanctuary.
1 December 2002 (62 words)
Snatch squads formed
In his White Paper proposals, Blunkett also announced a new protocol between the immigration service and the police service to step up the removal of illegal immigrants or failed asylum seekers no longer entitled to remain in Britain.
18 October 2002 (186 words)
Racism and prisons
Black prisoner killed in Long Lartin
5 September 2002 (107 words)
Asian prisoner challenges miscarriage of justice
Satpal Ram, whose case became a cause celebre, was released from prison in June on a life licence after having served fifteen years for the murder, in 1987, of Clarke Pearce in a Birmingham restaurant.
1 August 2002 (417 words)
The case of Satpal Ram
Satpal Ram, 20, was eating with two friends in a Bengali restaurant when six white people also arrived at the restaurant.
1 August 2002 (338 words)
Police officers acquitted in black death in custody case
Five police officers have been found not guilty of the manslaughter of Christopher Alder, a 37-year-old black former paratrooper who died on 1 April 1998 after being arrested by Hull police.
1 August 2002 (646 words)
Two black deaths in custody
The Police Complaints Authority is investigating the death of two men in the custody of south London police.
1 January 2002 (90 words)
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