Given the importance of research students to the City of Cambridge it is astonishing that the City Council has recently increased the level of harassment to which they subject those working towards a PhD. The council is sending council tax bills to research students. This has been a problem for many years, but in [...]
Tag Archives: Magistrate’s Court
Cambridge City Council Harassing Students for Council Tax - Click for Full Article
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Arbury Vandals Force Playground and Path Closure - Click for Full Article
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Youths with a motorbike on the playground at St. Luke’s School in April 2009. A PCSO is shown to the right of the photograph.
St Luke’s School, French’s Road, Arbury, Cambridge has posted a letter dated the 22nd of May 2009 on its gates announcing it is no-longer going to allow the public access to its [...]
New Cambridge Magistrates’ Court - Click for Full Article
Friday, October 24, 2008
I visited the new Cambridge Magistrates’ Court on Thursday the 23rd of October.
I had visited at 14.00 on the afternoon of the opening day - on Monday the 20th, to be told that there were no courts sitting that afternoon, and there would not be any adult courts until Thursday. This left me concerned [...]
Police Consulatative Meeting - Arbury Ward - Click for Full Article
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
I have just returned from a police consultative meeting at the Meadows Community Centre, the meeting was publicised as being to discuss Anti-Social Behaviour in the ward of Arbury. No council officers attended, apparently due to them being on strike, although the national council worker’s strike doesn’t start until tomorrow. About 14 members [...]
Majid Ahmed: When is a Referral Order Spent? Should the Innocent Ever Plead Guilty? - Click for Full Article
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
I have just commented on the article on the Imperial College student run news website Live! on a prospective medical student who had his medical school place taken away from him due to a referral order he had received following a burglary at the age of 15.
In a Guardian article the prospective student has said:
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Cambridge Magistrates’ Court - Click for Full Article
Monday, April 7, 2008
I spent a day watching the Cambridge Magistrates Courts in action today.
Of the defendants I saw there were two eastern Europeans, one person from 222 Victoria Road, one from Jimmy’s night shelter, an elderly British man, and four young apparently local men in their teens/early twenties. I saw eight defendants, all were male. I [...]