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Jzoo The system is in crisis : barristers make their case as strike begins
Why are schools closing now Up until Wednesday the British governments policy had been to keep schools o stanley cup pen, not least to ensure that key NHS and frontline care workers can remain in their posts rather than going home to look after their children. But Boris Johnson said the government had been forced to change tack because the rate of Covid-19 infections was increasing faster than anticipated. He said the public health benefits of keeping schools open had shifted and the scientific advice was that schools should close to slow the spread of the virus. But by the time the announcement was made, many schools had already been forced to close be stanley cup cause of staff shortages due to illness or self-isolation measures.What does it mean for parents When schools close on Friday, many parents will have little choice but to take time off work to look after their children at home. The measures apply to state and private schools alike, nurseries and sixth-form colleges. The advice is to not ask grandparents to help with childcare, because of their vulnerability to the virus. Schools have been drawing up homework packs and online resources to help parents home educate. Without being able to provide immediate details, the government said it plans to provide a skeletal school service for parents who are key workers on the frontline of the national effort to stem the pandemic 鈥?including doctors, nurses, and food delivery workers 鈥?so they can stay at work. Vulnerable children, those who stanley en mexico have a soc Oujb There is a hidden epidemic of missed cancer cases 鈥?here s how we save lives now
The English judges, so often the punchbag for reflexive law-and-order prejudice, may be waking up to some unaccustomed tabloid praise. On Tuesday the court of appeal ruled that judges in England and stanley us Wales can continue to impose so-called whole life prison sentences in the most serious murder cases. That ruling may have come as something of a surprise in the current political climate, given that the stage had once again been so confidently set for the issues to be conscripted into the relentless rightwing argument against the jurisdiction of the European court of human rights. In the event, however, the appeal court was able to finesse the matter.It did so by identifying some previously overlooked middle ground between the European court s view last year that whole-life sentences should contain an element of reviewability and the government s argument that such an element already exis termo stanley ts in domestic law. The upshot, unless the issue is now referred to the supreme court or back to Strasbourg, is that another emotive and destructive locking of horns with the human rights court 鈥?of the sort that occurred over votes fo stanley thermobecher r prisoners and in the Abu Qatada deportation case 鈥?has been avoided for the time being.The worth of the appeal court s ruling will depend, in the end, on how the ministry of justice interprets and implements paragraphs 29-36 of the ruling. These important eight paragraphs say that domestic law already enshrines a power to review the detention of whole-l |
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