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• Labour plans to give complainants right to review in rape cases

  12-04-2015 10:21
  
  If police identify a suspect but do not pass file to CPS, victims would be able to ask for case to be looked at againComplainants of alleged sex crimes could be given a right to demand a review of police decisions not to proceed with their case, under Labour plans.
  Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, said that too often victims were not listened to by police, and the change would give them a much stronger voice in pushing for their assailants to be brought to justice. Continue reading...
  
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• General Election 2015: Clegg calls for law protecting UK citizen's digital rights - Computer Business Review

  12-04-2015 04:51
  General Election 2015: Clegg calls for law protecting UK citizen's digital rights
  Computer Business Review
  Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg today announced plans for a Digital Rights Bill, to be introduced within the first six months of forming a new coalition government. The deputy prime minister, launching a public consultation on the bill, called for ...en meer »
  
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• Gordonstoun linked to child sex abuse

  12-04-2015 01:04
  
  Former junior school pupils seeking to take action against teachers over historical allegationsAn Observer Magazine investigation has uncovered a series of alleged sexual assaults at Aberlour House, the junior school of Gordonstoun, the Scottish public school where the Queen’s sons were educated. In one of the most shocking cases, a victim has told how she was raped in a tent by a teacher on a school camping trip while other children listened. She was just 12.“Kate”, a scholarship pupil wh
  
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• Gordonstoun junior school linked to child sex abuse allegations

  12-04-2015 01:04
  
  Former pupils at Scottish public school seeking to take action against teachers over historical allegationsAn Observer Magazine investigation has uncovered a series of alleged sexual assaults at Aberlour House, the junior school of Gordonstoun, the Scottish public school where the Queen’s sons were educated. In one of the most shocking cases, a victim has told how she was raped in a tent by a teacher on a school camping trip while other children listened. She was just 12.“Kate”, a scholars
  
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