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Those readers who keep a close eye on the business news will have seen the recent story about the rise in annual profits for the budget airline Easyjet. The most recently released figures for the company showed a 16.7% increase in revenue, a 10% increase in...
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Posted on January 31, 2012 | No Comments | Leave a Comment‘Thrift’ is the watchword for clever businesses in times of austerity
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There has been a certain amount of coverage in some areas of the press given to comments made by Justice Minister Crispin Blunt MP about the perceived nature of community punishments. In launching his latest initiatives on using community initiatives to cut re-offending rates, he...
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Posted on January 31, 2012 | No Comments | Leave a CommentYou’re right, minister – the public does have issues with ‘soft’ community punishments
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Most readers should by now know that the MoJ caught almost everyone in the enforcement industry and advice sector on the hop by issuing a revised version of the National Standards for Enforcement Agents on Friday 13th January. Now the whys and wherefores of whether an...
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Posted on January 27, 2012 | No Comments | Leave a CommentNational Standards revised – and the Academy swings into action
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Most of you will be aware that a new version of the National Standards for Enforcement Agents was published earlier this month – it has already attracted a good deal of comment elsewhere and indeed I have already mentioned it in passing elsewhere myself. Some comments...
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Posted on January 25, 2012 | No Comments | Leave a CommentIf this is what ‘consultation’ looks like then why do they bother?
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A written Parliamentary Question was recently tabled by Andy Slaughter MP, a member of the opposition front-bench justice team, enquiring as to the levels of unpaid court fines in England and Wales. In answering, the minister, Jonathan Djanogly MP, confirmed that the total value of unpaid...
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Posted on January 25, 2012 | No Comments | Leave a CommentRecent Parliamentary Question on the level of unpaid fines gives reason to question just how they are being collected and enforced
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Those readers who work in the security industry will have been in receipt, as I was, of a strongly worded message from the Security Industry Authority earlier this week on issues that have recently arisen which, if not nipped in the bud, are feared will...
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Posted on January 19, 2012 | No Comments | Leave a Comment‘Ticket selling’ moves into the security industry – it should be clamped down on hard, as it should have been in the High Court enforcement industry
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