John Rowe QC, of 8 King Street Chambers, Manchester, has been appointed by the Home Office to undertake the annual review of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1989 for a further two years. Rowe is a practising barrister and a recorder of the Crown Court. He was a member of the Parole Board from 1987 to 1990 and was chair of the Bar General Council in 1993. He was appointed as reviewer of the Prevention of Terrorism Act in December 1993 and has to date undertaken three reports on the operation of the Act.
Society members lash out at 'flawed' software
Law Society Council members have called for the society’s flagship computer package for high street firms to be scrapped following the publication of an independent consultants’ report which called it “deeply flawed”. As The Lawyer predicted last week, the report by Oxford Law and Computing pulled no punches in its criticism of the High Street […]