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Delays to firearms licensing are set to reach record highs causing significant complications for certificate holders according to the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). Covid restrictions, regulatory medical involvement and a peak in firearms licensing renewals has caused mass disruption across licensing departments in England and Wales. In… Read more »
Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
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Diplomatic assurances between the government and Libya to guarantee the human rights of deportees have been discredited by senior judges. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) has ruled two Libyan terror suspects, known only as DD and AS, cannot be deported to Libya. It found that although they pose a national security risk to the… Read more »
Peers have approved the use of phone tap evidence in organised crime cases, despite government opposition. The House of Lords last night passed an amendment, introduced by Lord Lloyd, to the serious crime bill that would allow intercept evidence to be used in some cases. The amendment was passed 182 votes to 121 after peers… Read more »
