GCN contriubute to "ASBOs on Trial" on BBC Panorama  

18/11/2005

> > > BBC1 - Sunday 20th November 05 at 22.15

James Stark , on behalf of the housing team, contributed to this forthcoming programme and spoke to researchers last month.

Six years after their introduction, Panorama looks at the use of ASBOs through the stories of ASBO kids and their victims.

"The issues raised in the programme show the importance of proper representation for children and the vulnerable against whom ASBOs are sought, and the importance of challenging in particular the nature and extent of conditions that are sought to be applied for example excessively wide exclusion orders" says James Stark.

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More information

> see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/4447228.stm

> James Stark appeared in R v Manchester Crown Court ex parte McCann [2002] UKHL 39 (Anti-Social Behaviour Orders) - click here to download judgment

> contact Helen Ray on 0161 236 1840 or hray@gcnchambers.co.uk if you would be interested to borrow a recorded copy of this programme next week.