News up on Insite Law - also major update to Law reports, Profession, Blogs Gordon Brown warned over meltdown of trust after expenses U-turn Loyalist Blunkett joins critics of prime minister over ’self-inflicted wounds’ Guardian: Gordon Brown was warned last night by a loyalist former cabinet minister to fill the void in government policy, avoid self-inflicted wounds and recognise there had been a “catastrophic meltdown of trust” in politics. Police ‘terror searches’ treble BBC: Police stopped and searched three times as many people under anti-terrorism powers in 2007/8 compared to the year before, Home Office figures reveal. Some 124,687 stops and searches were conducted in England and Wales under anti-terror laws, but only 73 - 0.058% - ended in arrests for terror offences. More law news….1st May… US education provider floats £300m BPP acquisition Legal Week reports: ” The parent company of top UK law school BPP looks set to be taken over after a US education provider made a preliminary approach for the company worth £303.5m.” I give a rather sardonic view and plan to write about this in more detail over the next two days….

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1st May: News up on Insite Law

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