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Crime Costs

17 April 2008
Issue: 7317 / Categories: Legal News , Public , Tax
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News In Brief

Crime cost Londoners £3bn last year, a report by campaign group Taxpayers Alliance claims. The study produced a statistical breakdown using Home Office calculations to showing the “inequality in the cost of crime” in the capital. It was found that crime in Westminster cost £650 per person while in Richmond it cost the public only £215 each. The group says London “urgently needs politicians to show civic leadership and enable the police to take action and replicate the radical reductions in crime seen in other cities such as New York”.

Issue: 7317 / Categories: Legal News , Public , Tax
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DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

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