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Police officers participating in crime and stealing the identities of dead children: an overview of legal principles and a view on unprincipled practices

“Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government” Jeremy Bentham Mark Kennedy, the undercover police officer who infiltrated environmental protest groups in the East Midlands almost certainly participated in crime...

Courting suspicion: the flawed system of compensation in cases where justice has miscarried

Preamble When you travel into Paris, it is possible to observe that those unpleasant aspects of inner city life that would otherwise detract from the aesthetic of the city are pushed to the suburbs – quarantined if you will – so that the capital is not...

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