The Week That Was
The hearing of the Assange case in the Supreme Court dominated headlines this week. Assange appealed against his extradition to Sweden arguing the arrest warrant was “invalid and unenforceable”, and that the Swedish prosecutor who issued his European Arrest Warrant did not have the authority to do so. You can read the background to the case here.
The Justice Secretary is to reform the 1974 Rehabilitation of Offenders Act in order to shorten the period during which former offenders are obliged to tell potential employers about their criminal past. The period of time under which the convictions of medium-term prisoners will be ’spent’ reduced from 10 years to four. The convictions of short-term prisoners, serving sentences up to six months, will be spent after two years instead of the current seven. The justice secretary also said this week that sending more people to prison for longer sentences in order to cut re-offending “does not work”.








