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Monday, June 7, 2004 |
The lord chancellor has announced details of the new combined courts service.
Speaking on Friday in Carlisle, Lord Falconer said Her Majesty's Courts Service (HMCS) will be launched next April. It will bring all courts in England and Wales under a single administrative body.
The transition to the new structure is expected to cost the government £45 million over three years.
ePolitix
8:43:41 AM 
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Tamika Bravo is eating spare ribs in an east London noodle bar. She's 19 years old and has a one-year-old son. She's talking about gang rapes. "They happen all the time, man. You hear about them in school - girls who went with a boy and his mate, who went with five boys. It's so common."
Guardian
8:43:02 AM
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British Transport police are underfunded and could lack resources to cope with terrorism on the railways, according to a Labour-dominated committee of MPs which yesterday urged the government to reform the force.
Guardian
8:42:33 AM
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The Prison Service has launched an urgent investigation into the suicide of a female prisoner - the seventh death in such circumstances in two months in Britain's jails.
Independent
8:41:45 AM
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Computer and software manufacturers are to be forced to introduce new security measures to make it impossible for their products to be used to copy banknotes.
The move, to be drafted into European Union legislation by the year end, follows a surge in counterfeit currency produced using laser printers, home scanners and graphics software. Imaging software and printers have become so powerful and affordable that production of fake banknotes has become a booming cottage industry.
Observer
8:40:16 AM
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Ministers have missed the deadline for appealing against a ruling on slopping out in jail.
Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson insisted at the time there were grounds to challenge Lord's Bonomy's judgement. But in order to do that an appeal had to be lodged at the Court of Session within 21 days.
An "administrative error" is being blamed for ministers' failure to meet the deadline.
BBC
8:39:42 AM
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© Copyright 2004 Nick Page.
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Updated: 23/7/04; 9:53:13 am.
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