Hillsborough disaster - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Personnel involved. *Police officers/ detectives who investigate the crime. *Forensic specialists with expertise in different areas. *Crime scene investigators - in the UK scenes of crime officers (SOCO's) who collect evidence. *The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which decides if a suspect is charged. *There are also other agencies e.g. the National Crime Agency which is responsible for leading the UK's fight to cut serious and organised crime, and HM revenue and customs. *Forensic scie...

Evaluate how far the UK system of representative democracy remains in need of improvement. - ANS Where it is working well: + Free and fair voting; Parliamentary function sovereignty; participation FPTP strengths: +stability: only 2/6 GE's in 2010's have produced coalitions or hung Parliaments +MP direct link to constituent, quick (i.e. Newcastle central declared 60 mins after poll closed, 2017) BUT: - 2 party dominate (Maurice Duverger's law) i.e. UKIP 2015, 12.6% of vote, 1 seat - Wa...

Evaluate how far the UK system of representative democracy remains in need of improvement. - ANS Where it is working well: + Free and fair voting; Parliamentary function sovereignty; participation FPTP strengths: +stability: only 2/6 GE's in 2010's have produced coalitions or hung Parliaments +MP direct link to constituent, quick (i.e. Newcastle central declared 60 mins after poll closed, 2017) BUT: - 2 party dominate (Maurice Duverger's law) i.e. UKIP 2015, 12.6% of vote, 1 seat - Wa...

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Jeremy Bamber - Correct Answers White House farm murders, currently serving life for murdering 5 family members. Julie Mugford - Correct Answers Sold her story to the media, maybe lied in court about her ex-boyfriend Jemery Bamber Sally Clark - Correct Answers Was found guilty for killing both her children based on false testimony from an expert witness. Roy Meadows - Correct Answers Expert witness who repeatedly gave false information at court which resulted in miscarraiges of justice....

Jeremy Bamber correct answers White House farm murders, currently serving life for murdering 5 family members. Julie Mug ford correct answers Sold her story to the media, maybe lied in court about her ex-boyfriend Jeremy Bamber Sally Clark correct answers Was found guilty for killing both her children based on false testimony from an expert witness. Roy Meadows correct answers Expert witness who repeatedly gave false information at court which resulted in miscarriages of justice. Ran...

Evidence Sometimes invalid Sally Clark -convicted of murder children -first death seen as natural causes (sudden infant death syndrome SID), second one = thought to be suspiscious -Sir Roy meadow - said there was a 1 in 73m chance of 2 children in same household dying of this -statistical evidence unreliable -jury accepted his evidence as was an expert Trial verdicts Barry George -murder of jill danado -evidence used against him e.g. he was a loner, strange - not enough evidence...

Evaluate how far the UK system of representative democracy remains in need of improvement. - ANS Where it is working well: + Free and fair voting; Parliamentary function sovereignty; participation FPTP strengths: +stability: only 2/6 GE's in 2010's have produced coalitions or hung Parliaments +MP direct link to constituent, quick (i.e. Newcastle central declared 60 mins after poll closed, 2017) BUT: - 2 party dominate (Maurice Duverger's law) i.e. UKIP 2015, 12.6% of vote, 1 seat - Wa...

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