If you have not listened – I can recommend this week’s Law in Action episode with Joshua Rozenberg. Wikileaks / Assange case – European Arrest warrant – The view of a US spokeswoman on extraditing Assange – Tweeting from court. BBC Radio 4
Restorative Justice, Policing and the Big Society
I’ve also waded through this speech by Nick Herbert MP, Minister for Policing & Justice. Wading is the ‘operative word’. Oh dear! I shall do some thinking on this….that is not to suggest, of course, that Mr Herbert hasn’t…. he’s done enough to at least allow the speech parts of the human brain to kick in and enable him to make a speech on these matters. I wonder what professional criminal lawyers and other professionals in this field of ‘criminal justice’ will make of this? I found it rather thin and, to be frank, a bit of a waffle.
A taster….from Mr Herbert’s speech…….
The Big Society
This is about taking justice out of the narrow confines of the courts and putting it into the community. That is why I think the notion of the Big Society is so relevant and so important here.
This is a week where the Big Society has been talked about a lot, but I am passionate in the belief that the Big Society is a truly big idea. It is a big idea because it is an answer to the problems of the broken society, and it is those problems that have of course caused the high crime that we heard about.
Charon QC 