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So, were the courts right to keep names secret in the Baby Peter case?
At the time, there was stringent criticism from a vocal minority expressed online (such as in the comments thread on this site) of the court’s decision to keep secret the names of the adults involved in the Baby Peter case.
Now we know for sure the reasons:
There were two reasons behind the veil of secrecy. The [...]
The Daily Telegraph has a little legal problem
Bit of a legal blunder at the Daily Telegraph website today, with a story appearing about the sentences handed down following the death of Baby Peter. One problem: the story includes just under a big photograph, “PLEASE LEGAL (esp, can I say Baby P’s killer?)”: The answer, by the way, I think is “no” as [...]
Haringey Labour increase their allowances by stealth
A quick quiz for you. One of the Haringey local newspapers, The Hornsey Journal, had this story on 14 May:
Under fire councillors opt to take pay freeze
The recession is about to hit councillors in the pocket, after both Haringey Labour and Liberal Democrat parties decided NOT to take a pay rise …
Councillor Claire Kober, Leader [...]
Baby P’s death “could and should” have been stopped
The awful news about the second case of child abuse involving someone Haringey Council was meant to be protecting - with the conviction of the boyfriend of Baby P’s mother for raping a two-year old - has rather pushed to one side the publication of the second Serious Case Review into Baby P’s death.
The original [...]
Brazil: a film that seems as new now as it did 25 years ago
It’s not often that you sit down to watch a film first released a quarter of a century ago and feels like you are watching one that could have been released yesterday, but such was my experience with Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. The nightmare future it paints seems as apposite now as it did in the [...]
Mainstream media catches up with concerns over Haringey Chief Exec Ita O’Donovan
Evening Standard, 12 March 2009:
The head of the council at the centre of the Baby P scandal faces questions today over a series of other child protection failures.
Haringey chief executive Ita O’Donovan has held senior positions at three councils that were condemned for failing children so seriously that the Government was forced to intervene.
Dr O’Donovan [...]
