Leicester City Centre Street One Of UK’s Crime Hotspots

The Leicester Mercury published that Leicester’s City Centre Street is one of the UK’s biggest homes for criminals.

Deputy Commander of City Centre Police Andy Cooper said criminals often acted at night and weekends when the area was very busy.

Cooper added "The vast majority of the assaults were minor in nature but they were obviously assaults nonetheless.

"The figure of 35 crimes is a slight increase on previous months but it is difficult to put a finger on why that should be.

"Crime rates do fluctuate and there was a bank holiday in that month, which may have had an effect."

The street located near Church Gate has three nightclubs, a bus station and a great number of takeaways that draw many customers. About 35 offences from assault to bike theft were reported in the area over the course of the month.

Cities including London, Manchester Leeds, Birmingham and Derby were ahead of Leicester when it comes to crime rates.

Church Gate workers begged to differ about the label. They noted that they see “signs of the weekend” including urine in doorways and “odd broken windows”. They said while it is considered dangerous, they “never felt it was unsafe.” 

Legal Technology is IN! If You’re Missing Out, You’re Probably Committing These Three Mistakes!

Smartphones are the longest shot technology did for the world since laptops. The Internet that allows lightning-fast information access is the other one. But no one could blame you if your computer security isn’t too good. 

Legal cases have sensitive information that hackers could siphon from your computer if you’re not too careful. So what are your best options? You’ll need to first embrace technology, then avoid these three.

1.    Data Encryption

Having your own code and codex for your computer may be expensive, but having the lock and key on your information is an investment for the future. Have specialists assist your company to make information from your servers only readable through special software specialists could develop for your firm.

 Trust us on this; you’ll be saving thousands to a million pounds too.

2.    Online All-Night

There’s a risk to running a 24-hour legal firm; online computers for the rest of the day. Aside from the firm’s electric bill skyrocketing, hackers have more opportunities to penetrate your system defences. Janitorial staff and other employees could see information that weren’t meant for them.

3.    Embracing The New Progress

Technology has made it easier for many industries to save time in doing tasks with better information sorting and presentation. Software developers such as Justis One is groundbreaking because it had added decades of scanned copies of legal cases in many different countries.

Other software may be developed for law firms and it could be quite expensive. But as always, think of the long-term profits these machines could do for you.

How Legal Is Marijuana In The United States? Here’s Five Ways It Is!

Washington and Colorado in the United Sates were the first states to make marijuana a legal drug. Well, with the changes, restrictions and other things involving pot, marijuana isn’t exactly and completely legal in the United States. However, here are five things we’re pretty sure makes it legal to own pot in the United States.

 

1.    Over 21-years-old? You Could Buy Marijuana!

If you’re over 21, you could buy marijuana legally in government-regulated pot-shops in the country.

2.    Alaska, DC and Oregon Allows Smoking

As long as you don’t smoke it in public and the government irons out the troubles, you could smoke marijuana in these places without fearing the fuzz.

3.    Public Smoking of Marijuana is Not Allowed

4.    Medical Marijuana is different from recreational marijuana.

Medical Marijuana is actually legal in 23 US states.

5.    Employers Have The Right To Fire Cannabis Users

Despite laws helping marijuana become semi-legal, employers who find their employees smoking pot inside work premises or are quite sober from marijuana usage can still fire them at will. Of course, even if employees fail at a drug test due to marijuana, they could still get fired.

Five Things Entrepreneurs Ask Lawyers [Infographic]

Lawyers don't have much time on their hands and entrepreneurs might want to save up some money before consulting. Thankfully, some lawyers came up with the idea to make things easier for entrepreneurs by making an FAQ infographic.

If you're an entrepreneur, you could probably use this one.

UK Toughens Anti-Terror Efforts Through New Law

The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill has received Royal Assent from the Queen, now making it an Act. It would toughen powers to seize passports at the border from anybody suspected of travelling to Syria or Iraq for extremist activity.

Home Secretary Theresa May considers it an important legislation.

"This important legislation will disrupt the ability of people to travel abroad to fight and then return, enhance our ability to monitor and control the actions of those who pose a threat, and combat the underlying ideology that feeds, supports and sanctions terrorism," she said.

"The shocking attacks in Paris last month, in which 17 people lost their lives, and the many plots that the police and security and intelligence agencies continually work to disrupt, are clear evidence of the threat we face from terrorism. 



"We have a fundamental duty as a government to ensure that the people who work to keep us safe have the powers they need to do so.”

Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures will allow Home Security to relocate suspected terrorists and require them to attend meetings with probation staff as part of their case management.

The new act also introduces new temporary exclusion orders to stop anybody coming from Iraq or Syria from returning to the United Kingdom. It would also allow law enforcement agencies to identify devices responsible for sending communication on the internet or accessing an Internet communications service.

UK Government Guarantees That Fracking Rules Will Not Apply In Scotland

Exercising its new freedoms, Scotland had rejected the UK government’s plan to pass the Infrastructure Bill. The new bill allows fracking firms to facilitate drilling for shale gas underneath unsuspecting UK properties. 

The Scottish government, Labour and Green party had opposed the bill, which would also apply to residential areas.

Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” has drillers take apart rocks using a high-pressure mixture for oil. With the new UK fracking laws, UK grounds would allow drilling firms to access difficult areas for oil and gas.

Opponents of fracking claim that the process could release potentially carcinogenic chemicals into groundwater. It could also result to increased pollution due to bad practice.

According to Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing, the move is just about right.

"This decision is a victory for common sense and shows how devolution of energy policy leads to different policy outcomes in Scotland. 

"It is a vindication of the Scottish government's continued objections to UK government plans to remove the right of Scottish householders to object to unconventional oil and gas drilling under their home. 

"We're glad the UK government has finally taken this on board - especially as 99 per cent of respondents to their own consultation also opposed the move."

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Protests Planned Against Implementation of UK Pornography Laws

Hundreds are planning to gather on Friday outside Parliament to protest the new set of pornographic laws effectively blocking “explicit content” from R18 films.

The Audiovisual Media Services Regulations of 2014 will have pornographic distributors for online and video-on-demand pornography be regulated by the British Board of Film Censors’ guidelines for R-18 material. It involves “explicit works of consenting sex or strong fetish material involving adults.”

The #PornProtest is a response against these regulations. Hundreds of demonstrators plan to stimulate sex acts with each other and perform a “face-sitting” demonstration.

As of December 1, 2014, strangulation, whipping and face-sitting, popular fetish sexual acts in adult pornography, had been banned on films produced in the United Kingdom. However, it does not restrict overseas films coming into the country from showing these explicit acts. 

The law banned them on the grounds that they were “life-threatening.”

Britain’s 2013 Sex Worker of the Year Charlotte Rose organised the mass protest. She told a popular blog that the restrictions were uncalled for. 

“How is it perfectly okay for a man to choke a woman with his penis in her mouth, yet we can’t enjoy cunnilingus through face-sitting?”

The protest will include serious speeches from various organisations. According to rose, the protesters are fighting for their personal liberty.

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