Monthly Archives: October 2014

Undercover Color – The First Fashion Company Working To Prevent Sexual Assault

Great idea. I like xx

Researching Reform

What happens when fashion and female safety combine? It might sound like a funny headline, but if this nail polish company can pull this product off (no icky nail pun intended – ok, maybe a little), then this new invention may just revolutionise 21st century socialising.

Undercover Color was started by four undergraduate students at North Carolina State university. The men are working on creating a new nail polish that will be able to detect the presence of date rape drugs like Rohypnol and GHB in your drink.

The idea is simple: slick on the nail polish before you go out and once you’re at a party or function and you’ve got a glass in hand, just stir your drink with your finger. If your nail polish changes colour, your drink’s been spiked.

Whilst the idea is still in the R&D phase, their fundraising efforts have been rather successful. They’ve just managed…

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Cheshire West fallout

Another great post xx

suesspiciousminds

There’s an excellent piece of investigative work by Community Care about the escalation in the number of Deprivation of Liberty cases since the Supreme Court made a substantial change to the law in Cheshire West.

If you have a chance to read the full thing, I heartily recommend it.  (the remainder of this article is my extraction and citation of what I considered to be the main issues)

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2014/10/01/50-deprivation-liberty-safeguards-cases-breaching-legal-timescales/

Half of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (Dols) cases are breaching legal timescales for completion after a landmark Supreme Court ruling in March triggered a nine-fold rise in monthly referrals to councils, a Community Care investigation has found

 

In 2013-14 councils received 8,455 requests for Dols assessments; since April this year they’ve already had 32,988 referrals. The figures mean average monthly referrals have risen from 713 in 2013-14 to 6,643 in 2014-15. The effect of the dramatic rise in cases is…

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Fraud unravels everything – Rapisarda v Colladon part 2

Good one xx

suesspiciousminds

I’ve been eagerly awaiting this judgment. This is part 2 of the case involving the Queen’s Proctor and an alleged systematic fraudulent obtaining of 180 divorces (some decree nisis, some decree absolutes)

http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/rapisarda-v-colladon-italy.pdf

I wrote about part one here http://suesspiciousminds.com/2014/05/09/the-pages-of-the-most-extravagant-french-novel/

That judgment was all about whether the Press could report what had been going on, because there are historic statutes aimed at preserving the decency of Victorian breakfast tables stopping the Press reporting the details of divorce cases (they can report the financial settlements, but not the divorce itself).

The President did one of his very clever conjuring tricks to resolve that and allow the case to be reported.

Part 2 is about whether there had been this systematic fraud. According to the case, the allegation is that many divorce petitions were lodged, all using the same address in Maidenhead for the petitioner, as a means of allowing the divorce…

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