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The Justice Secretary is reported to have pledged to make English defamation laws fairer. Full Article at Index on Censorship
JACK STRAW is preparing to draw up proposals for wholesale reform of England’s libel laws, after a long-running Sunday Times campaign. Full Article at Times Online
LONDON - NOVEMBER 18: Leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harman attend the State Opening of Parliament on November 18, 2009 in London, England. View Photo »
What about Auschwitz ... You don't need a subsequent radio intercept to find out that people were gassed at Auschwitz.
Every day across Britain shocking, violent and harrowing cases come to court. But even more shocking to the public is that many of the criminals in the dock escape jail for serious crimes. Full Article at Mirror.co.uk
Another bit of proposed legislation, which will hopefully be lost due to the forthcoming General Election, is the flawed Bribery Bill 2009 For some reason it has been introduced by Jack Straw's Ministry of (In)Justice in the House of Lords. Full Article at Spy Blog
Expert witnesses in family cases are to be named under the next stage of opening up the family courts to the media, although social workers' anonymity will be protected, ministers have announced. Full Article at Times Online
LONDON - NOVEMBER 18: Leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harman attend the State Opening of Parliament on November 18, 2009 in London, England. View Photo »
I have written to Jack Straw in the meantime, and to the Foreign Office and Hungarian ambassador in London expressing my concerns
Lord Mandelson with Jack Straw, the Queen and Prince Philip at yesterday's state opening of parliament. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
Clinton and Miliband: is it love? Credit: Getty Images Remember the famously 'warm' relationship between Jack Straw and Condoleezza Rice? Full Article at New Statesman
John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946), most commonly known as Jack Straw, is a senior British Labour Party politician. On 28 June 2007 he was appointed to the offices of Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice. Full Article
LONDON - NOVEMBER 18: Leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harman attend the State Opening of Parliament on November 18, 2009 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the Government's legislative programme in a speech delivered from the Throne in The House of Lords.
View Photo »LONDON - NOVEMBER 18: Leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harman attend the State Opening of Parliament on November 18, 2009 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the Government's legislative programme in a speech delivered from the Throne in The House of Lords.
View Photo »LONDON - NOVEMBER 18: Leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harman attend the State Opening of Parliament on November 18, 2009 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the Government's legislative programme in a speech delivered from the Throne in The House of Lords.
View Photo »LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 01: The Right Honourable Jack Straw MP, Lord Chancellor and secetary of State for Justice, (R) leaves Westminster Abbey after the annual service of thanksgiving on October 1, 2009 in London, England.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 30: Sun political editor George Pascoe-Watson (R) talks with Justice Secretary Jack Straw outside the Labour Party Conference on September 30, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 30: Sun political editor George Pascoe-Watson (R) talks with Justice Secretary Jack Straw outside the Labour Party Conference on September 30, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »British Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw (R) is pictured at the annual Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre, Brighton, on September 29, 2009.
View Photo »British Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw (R) is pictured at the annual Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre, Brighton, on September 29, 2009.
View Photo »British Foreign Secretary David Miliband (L) and Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw (R) are pictured during the annual Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre, Brighton, on September 29, 2009.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Members of the cabinet listen to Prime Minister Gordon Brown address the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw (R) and Home Secretary Alan Johnson share a joke during the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »British Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw (R) is pictured at the annual Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre, Brighton, on September 29, 2009.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw speaks during the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Home Secretary Alan Johnson (l) speaks to Jack Straw, the Secretary of State for Justice, on stage at the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw speaks during the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw speaks during the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Home Secretary Alan Johnson (l) speaks to Jack Straw, the Secretary of State for Justice, on stage at the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw speaks during the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw speaks during the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »British Labour Party Ministers David Miliband, (R) Alan Johnson (2nd R) Peter Mandelson (3rd R) Harriet Harman, (3rd L) Alistair Darling (2nd L) and Jack Straw (L) are pictured during Prime Minister Gordon Brown's speech at the annual Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre, Brig...
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw speaks the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw (R) talks with Home Secretary Alan Johnson at the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw speaks during the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw (R) speaks to Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson during the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Members of the Cabinet (L-R) Jack Straw, Alistair Darling, Harriet Harman, Lord Mandelson, Alan Johnson and David Miliband listen to Prime Minister Gordon Brown as he speaks to the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
View Photo »LONDON - NOVEMBER 18: Leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harman attend the State Opening of Parliament on November 18, 2009 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the Government's legislative programme in a speech delivered from the Throne in The House of Lords.
View Photo »What about Auschwitz ... You don't need a subsequent radio intercept to find out that people were gassed at Auschwitz.
I have written to Jack Straw in the meantime, and to the Foreign Office and Hungarian ambassador in London expressing my concerns
What about Auschwitz ... You don't need a subsequent radio intercept to find out that people were gassed at Auschwitz.
Jack Straw tried too hard. He looked anxious, sounded forced, and seemed to have practised many of his lines, losing his audience as he banged on about the past.
My dad was in the RAF during the Second World War - Jack Straw's was in prison.
My dad was in the Royal Air Force during World War II and Jack Straw’s was in prison as a conscientious objector.
Joining us tonight from Television Centre, we have Conservative peer Baroness Warsi, Labour's justice secretary, Jack Straw, and making his first appearance on Question Time, Britain's leading neo-Nazi, Nick Griffin.
That is why, using parliamentary privilege, I tabled these questions to Jack Straw at the Ministry of Justice as a matter of urgency.
The Justice Secretary [Jack Straw] has talked to the parties concerned and is looking into this issue
He told Jack Straw it was nonsense ... And Straw said, ‘Look, don’t worry about it. I don’t particularly take any notice about these things’.
I have written to Jack Straw and the prison service asking them to investigate. This family has suffered a terrible tragedy and to be taunted in this way is unacceptable.
RT @Stephen_Curry RT @RogerHighfield: Jack Straw promises libel reform. http://bit.ly/8in1Hg
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