Richard Taylor

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  • Friends of Midsummer Common

    To: The Committee of the Friends of Midsummer Common, I attended your open meeting held on Wednesday 24th January 2007 and am taking up the invitation extended to those of us at that meeting to email you at this address with opinions/suggestions we were unable to make in person at the meeting. When I attended […]

  • Suggestions to the BBSRC

    Dear Prof. Mary Bownes, As someone who received a BBSRC funded CASE PhD studentship in 2001 but has not obtained a PhD I would like to offer some suggestions based on my experience. I feel that the BBSRC could have got better value for money for the money spent in relation to my studentship. I […]

  • Jury Suggestions

    Following my experience as a member of a Jury I wrote to my MP with some very simple suggestions for improving the Jury trial process: David Howarth, I would like to suggest that you seek to amend the Criminal Justice Act (or the relevant legislation) to ensure: A Jury should always be sent out of […]

  • Oakington Reception Centre IMB Annual Report 2005

    OAKINGTON IMMIGRATION RECEPTION CENTRE INDEPENDENT MONITORING BOARD ANNUAL REPORT OAKINGTON IMB REPORT 2005 – PDF version. Most Annual Reports from Independent Monitoring Boards are made available by the Home Office via their IMB website. Despite being made available to the Cambridge Evening News in time to write an article on the 2nd of May 2006, […]

  • Part 3 of RIPA – A Step Towards Lawlessness

    I wrote the below letter to my MP because I oppose laws which potentially criminalise vast swathes of people, leaving open the possibility for the Police to selectively enforce the law. A society where everybody routinely breaks, or is unable to comply with the law and the state enforces the law arbitrarily is in my […]

  • Stonehenge Consultation

    Would you build a new road through a world heritage site containing one of the UK’s most recognisable assets? Would you build a tunnel within a few hundred meters of Stonehenge? Both of these options are now being considered as part of a road improvement scheme around Stonehenge designed to: Remove roads and traffic from […]

  • Cambridge’s CCTV System

    The below correspondence resulted in a number of improvements to Cambridge City Council’s CCTV code of practice and brought it more into line with current practice: Anthony Hymans, (Local City Councillor) If you walk to the top of your road (Alpha Road), turn right and take a few steps forward I believe you will be […]