Newcomers Must Earn The Right To Stay In The UK / Home Office, 14 July 2008
http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/Earning-The-Right-To-Stay
Draft Immigration and Citizenship Bill: http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/immigrationandcitizenshipbill

ICO: Data breach law moves closer / Silicon.com, 3 July 2008
http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39254671,00.htm
Nick Heath
"The UK's privacy watchdog says the country is a step closer to getting a law forcing organisations to reveal data breaches, thanks to draft EU legislation. Deputy information commissioner David Smith said proposals to revise the EU's ePrivacy Directive could be the "catalyst" needed to get data breach notification into UK law. Amendments to the directive would require "providers of electronic services to inform users of breaches of data protection" and will be voted on by the EU later this year."

This isn't a snoopers' charter / Guardian, 1 July 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/01/civilliberties.law?gusrc=rss&feed=politics
Geoff Cahill
"Can there be any piece of legislation that has been more misunderstood than the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act? As nightmarish folk tales of people being bugged over dog poop began to reverberate across the blogosphere, the accusations mounted: it was "illiberal", "draconian", "a snoopers' charter" or even (bewilderingly) "anti-terrorism legislation". It seems that Ripa has developed a serious image problem, which is a great pity because it was conceived with some very good intentions. Unfortunately, it credited those for whom it was enacted to regulate with slightly too much intelligence and restraint."

EU approves illegal migrants plan / BBC, 19 June 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7460007.stm
"The European Parliament has passed a controversial set of EU rules for dealing with illegal immigration. Under the new rules illegal immigrants can be detained for up to 18 months and face a five-year re-entry ban. Lawmakers backed the measures by a large majority despite opposition from many Socialist and Green parties, and condemnation from human rights groups."

Companies struggling to cope with eight new laws each day / Times, 19 June 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4166890.ece
Frances Gibb
"Eight new laws come into force each day on average, according to research from a leading legal publisher. It finds that the Government introduced 14 per cent more new laws during 2007 than in 2006 — a total of 3,071 compared with 2,702 the year before. That works out at eight new laws every day, compared with seven in 2006, according to publisher Sweet & Maxwell, which drew the figures from its online legal information services."

Bid to strengthen sex crime laws / BBC, 18 June 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7461031.stm
"Plans to toughen laws on rape, consent, spiking drinks and offensive e-mails and texts have been unveiled as part of an overhaul of sex crime legislation. Under the Scottish Government bill, consent would be defined in law, creating a broader statutory offence which includes male rape. There would also be new offences for sexually offensive e-mails and texts and spiking people's drinks."
Links to the Bill, Explanatory Notes and other documents: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/bills/11-sexualOffences/index.htm

Police protester snap did not breach rights / The Register, 3 June 2008
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/03/protester_photo_ruling/
"Police-ordered photography of an anti-arms trade protester did not breach the protester's privacy rights, the High Court has ruled. It is one of the few times that such alleged intrusion by the state rather than the media has been the subject of a UK ruling. Andrew Wood, a media co-ordinator for the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), claimed that the taking and storage of police photos was a violation of his privacy, but because they were taken in the public street and retained only for a specific purpose, the High Court rejected the claims."

EU urges UK to better convert knowledge into socio-economic benefits/ Public Technology, 11 April 2008
http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=15186
"The European Commission has adopted a Recommendation on the management of intellectual property in knowledge transfer activities of universities and other public research organisations.
The Recommendation provides public research organisations (PROs) with operational principles to more effectively manage and exploit intellectual property."

The Role of Restorative Justice: Speech by Jack Straw / Ministry of Justice / 30 April 2008

http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/sp300408.htm

"This is a transcript of the speech by Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw on 30 April 2008. He talks about the role of restorative justice on the tenth anniversary of the Restorative Justice Consortium."