Anyone living in the south-coast town of Eastbourne in the late 1950s would be familiar with the name Dr John Bodkin Adams. His murder trial was (at the time) the longest in British legal history, but, instead of going to the gallows, remarkably, the overweight doctor was acquitted on 10 April 1957 and resumed medical practice in Eastbourne some four years later. But was he an angel of mercy or an unconvicted mass murderer who killed his patients decades before we heard the name Harold Shipman?
Career advice centres are “really good at producing glossy brochures†and can talk about standard career options but don't provide enough individual personalised support for students pursuing a career in law, a senior charity executive has said.
A senior lawyer has been found in breach of the Data Protection Act for failing to encrypt a laptop containing sensitive client information which was stolen from her home.
Lord Judge, the lord chief justice, and Lord Phillips, president of the Supreme Court, put up a united front in defence of human rights in a hearing before a parliamentary committee this afternoon.