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Prisoner suing Home Office (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on former prisoner Stephen Raymond suing the Home Office in the High Court for unlawfully intercepting and photocopying legal letters between him and his legal team. With comment from solicitor Marie...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.45: Programme 45 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 45 Programme 45 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 30 August 1987. Presented by GUY HORNSBY....

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Ivan Lawrence on European Court (1995)

Genre

Interview

Dominic Waghorn interviews Sir Ivan Lawrence, Chair of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee about the UK Foreign Office’s attempt to curb the powers of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.

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Nepalese adoptee fights deportation (1996)

Genre

Interview

Jay (Jayaram) Khadka was brought to Britain from Nepal and adopted by computer tycoon Richard Morley, after the death of the boy’s father in 1990. The Home Office has consistently opposed Khadka’s...

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Official Secrets Act case thrown out (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with civil servant, Alan Lowther, speaking after his case was thrown out of court. He was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act, over the release of Home Office documents on children’s toys,...

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Compensation scheme ruled against (1995)

Genre

Interview

David MacLean, Home Office Minister on court decision against Home Secretary’s new tariff-based compensation scheme. Claims scheme is generous to victims of crime. Interviewer not heard.

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Compensation scheme ruled against (1995)

Genre

Interview

Home Office Minister David MacLean on court decision against Home Secretary Michael Howard’s compensation scheme based on tariffs. Emergency legislation will now be brought in. Interviewer not heard.

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Home Office ordered to hand over evidence (1994)

Genre

Interview; News report

Alastair Lawson-Tancred reports on a High Court ruling that Home Office department C3 must hand over documents relating to 4 high profile appeal cases, evidence their lawyers say will free those suffering...

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Asylum ruling overturned (1995)

Genre

Interview; News report

Legal affairs correspondent Tim Crook reports on a Court of Appeal decision reversing the earlier High Court decision which found the Home Office was acting unlawfully by detaining people who claimed...

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Deported Tamils win right to return (1989)

Genre

Interview

Margaret Shiels interviews solicitor David Burgess about a High Court decision ordering the UK Government to allow 5 asylum-seeking Sri Lankan Tamils who were deported from the UK to return. The judges held...

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