Jo Sidhu
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Age | 58 |
| Born | London |
| United Kingdom | |
| Job | Barrister |
| Education | Law |
| University of Oxford | |
| London School of Economics and Political Science | |
| Wadham College | |
| Official site | josidhu.com |
| Date of birth | January 1,1966 |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1414518 |
Jo Sidhu Life story
Navjot Sidhu KC is a British criminal law barrister and King's Counsel.
Barristers' strike: Crime victims in despair as court delays worsen
... " Jo Sidhu, who chairs the CBA said: " If we haemorrhage specialist criminal barristers, who provide prosecutors, defence advocates and judges, then victims of crime take the added pain of more months to their trial dates...
Courts 'in limbo' as barristers strike for second week
... " The criminal justice system has been grinding to a halt for a number of years, not because of us but because the government has simply mismanaged the system and underfunded it considerably, " said CBA chairman Jo Sidhu...
Barristers walk out of courts in strike over legal aid funding
... CBA chairman Jo Sidhu QC said that, as well as pay, the strikes are about " redressing the shortfall in the supply of criminal barristers to help deal with the crisis in our courts"...
Criminal barristers vote to strike over pay rates
... In a joint statement, Jo Sidhu QC and Kirsty Brimelow QC, chair and vice chair respectively of the association, said the " extraordinary" result " reflects a recognition amongst criminal barristers at all levels that what is at stake is the survival of a profession of specialist criminal advocates and of the criminal justice system"...
Sexual offence victims face longest-ever court waits
... " We simply do not have sufficient numbers of judges, prosecutors, and defenders to deal with the backlog, " says Jo Sidhu QC, chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA)...
Criminal prosecution delays hit record 708 days
... The Criminal Bar Association s Jo Sidhu QC called the figures " devastating"...
Newspaper headlines: Cummings claims PM lied, and energy bills warning
... some scathing criticism of the plans, from the chairman of the Criminal Bar Association, Jo Sidhu QC...
Magistrates to get more powers to jail criminals for longer
... And the chairman of the Criminal Bar Association, Jo Sidhu, said " fiddling with magistrates sentencing powers is a betrayal of victims of crime"...
Newspaper headlines: Cummings claims PM lied, and energy bills warning
Many of the Front Pages concentrate on Dominic Cummings ' latest claims about Downing Street parties.
The Metro's headline repeats the assertion of Boris Johnson 's former chief adviser that he is willing to swear under oath that the Prime Minister lied to The House of Commons.
on his claim that the PM approved a party in the No 10 garden in May 2020.
an unnamed former Downing Street staff member as saying " it's inconceivable" that Mr Johnson's aide, Martin Reynolds , would have arranged The Event " Without checking with Boris".
Downing Street says suggestions that the Prime Minister was warned about The Gathering in advance are untrue.
According " Tory angst is growing". The Boss of The Conservative Home website, Mark Wallace , likens rumours about potential leadership challenges to the TV drama Succession.
He writes that the PM's potential successors may be plotting and calculating, " but risk being paralysed by The Knowledge that if you attack and miss, you fail absolutely".
The Daily Mail 's under the so-called Partygate scandal. It says " enough is enough" claiming the ongoing coverage is causing " a thumping Hangover - Without having had the fun of going to the parties".
ministers are considering paying energy suppliers to avoid wholesale price rises being passed on to customers.
It says The Plan includes a commitment for companies to repay The Money if prices fall below an agreed level. The Paper claims the idea is being prioritised over government-backed loans because of Fears suppliers cannot take on further credit risk.
The Daily Express to accelerate efforts to resolve the issue, saying " The Clock is ticking".
the government of making a bad situation even worse by making bad decisions, saying The Next government will be tasked with dealing with A Legacy of reduced living standards.
Justice Secretary Dominic Raab magistrates' courts in The Daily Telegraph.
He calls magistrates the " unsung heroes" and " linchpins" of the justice System - and that giving them powers to hand out longer punishments and deal with more serious offences will help reduce the current backlog of unheard Crown Court cases.
Some scathing criticism of the plans, from The Chairman of The Criminal Bar Association , Jo Sidhu QC.
He calls the proposals " a cynical means of depriving those accused of serious crime from being judged by their peers".
Fears of a global shortage of truffles, because hunters have been banned from operating in woodlands in two regions of Italy.
Restrictions have been introduced in Piedmont and Liguria after five wild boars were discovered with African swine fever.
Fans of the delicacy fear it could drive up prices, which have already doubled to five pounds a gram this winter after an unseasonably dry autumn affected supplies.
Source of news: bbc.com
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