I first took an interest in this topic when banking chiefs started parading before the Treasury Select Committee three years ago. I returned to it when Richard Williamson apologised to the pope shortly afterwards. Recently, claims Christina Patterson in today’s i, sham apologies have been coming thick and fast. Her main concern was l’affaire PIP. [...]
[The location of Perugia for those whose geography is as hopeless as mine! From GoogleMaps] [Photo of Meredith Kercher released by police] Meredith Kercher (21), a British student from London on an exchange visit to Perugia, was murdered on 1 November 2007. She shared a flat in the Via Pergola with Amanda Knox (then 20) [...]
The UK National Lottery’s main game, Lotto, requires you to pick 6 distinct numbers from 1-49. You pay £1 for each such entry. At the draw, 7 distinct numbers are drawn, the last being the “bonus” number. To get a prize you must match at least 3 of the main numbers. The prize types are: [...]
The headline in the Daily Express sounds amazing. Have the Cambridgeshire police really been instructed not to enter a park where local yobs are causing trouble after dark, because they cannot see well enough? Is this the ultimate Health & Safety absurdity? Well not quite. The reports are about Waterlees Park in Wisbech. Apparently, nearby [...]
It is just over a year since my last post on this topic, which was mainly about Jacqui Smith‘s proposal for a new strict liability offence. Strict liability offences are generally bad law. They are offences where in technical terms there is no mens rea requirement. Normally, guilt requires that (1) the person did the [...]
