Alex Thomson
Charles Taylor: Banal surroundings for an extraordinary trial
From the Special Court for Sierra Leone at The Hague Alex Thomson gives his view of the trial of former warlord and Liberian President, Charles Taylor.
Search results for ‘Lord Taylor’
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Lord Taylor guilty over expense claims
Lord Taylor of Warwick has been found guilty of making false expense claims. The jury agreed that he misled the Members’ Expenses Section in the House of Lords, taking more than £11,000.
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Warlord Charles Taylor blames conviction on US interference
The ex-Liberian president faces an 80-year term in a UK prison for aiding and equipping rebels in Sierra Leone’s civil war, and for his role in rape, murder, and the conscription of child soldiers.
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Liberian warlord Charles Taylor found guilty
The former Liberian president is found guilty of war crimes in Sierra Leone at a special court in The Hague.
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Is it time to reform the Lords?
As the Government reels from a stinging defeat on tax credits in the House of Lords, there are calls for reform.
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Charles Taylor jailed for fifty years
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been jailed at the UN-backed special court for Sierra Leone in the Hague for aiding and abetting war crimes during Sierra Leone’s civil war.
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Alex Thomson
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Jon Snow
Tax relief m'lord?
You won’t be seeing much news coverage of this. In this age of austerity and cuts, the House of Lords spent yesterday afternoon debating their remuneration.
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Jon Snow
Life still means life in the House of Lords
Amid the furore in which MPs from all parties appeared to abuse the Commons expenses rules without actually breaking them (see my posting yesterday), let us not forget the House of Lords. Who remembers that four of their lordships were subject to a newspaper sting reported in January this year, which alleged they were prepared…
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Former Tory peer jailed for expenses fraud
Former Conservative peer Lord Taylor of Warwick is jailed for 12 months after being convicted of fiddling his parliamentary expenses and claiming more than £11,000 from the taxpayer.
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Ex-Conservative Peer denies expenses fraud
Former Conservative Peer Lord Taylor of Warwick appears in court accused of falsely claiming more than £11,000 in subsistence and travelling expenses reports Katie Razzall.
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Out of order: politicians who ended up behind bars
Chris Huhne is not the first serving politician to end up in trouble with the law, statistically MPs are more likely to have a criminal conviction than the average member of the public.
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Wild animals to be banned from circus
Circuses will be banned from using wild animals in their shows under government plans to outlaw the practice “at the earliest opportunity”.
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Sobbing former MP appears in court over expenses
Former Luton South MP Margaret Moran looked broken as she sat in the dock for the short hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, writes Channel 4 News reporter Katie Razzall.
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Former MP Moran faces expenses fiddling charges
Former Luton South Labour MP Margaret Moran faces 21 charges in relation to claims she made for parliamentary expenses.
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FactCheck: Casting an Eye over Westminster’s jailbirds
As another politician hears the clang of the prison gates, FactCheck looks at the Palace of Westminster’s soaring crime rate.
