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Topic: Harriet Harman


In the News (Sun 12 Oct 08)

  
  Search: the word 'confidentiality' spoken by Harriet Harman (TheyWorkForYou.com)
Harriet Harman: The "Confidence and confidentiality: Improving transparency and privacy in family courts" consultation paper was published on 11 July 2006 and put forward a number of proposals with the aim of improving public confidence in the family courts, and safeguarding the privacy of those involved in proceedings.
Harriet Harman:...' lodgings are an essential requirement for accommodating high court judges sitting outside of London.
Harriet Harman:..., the implications for the substantive law that might arise from that prosecution are always considered.
www.theyworkforyou.com /search/?s=confidentiality&pid=10260   (975 words)

  
  Harriet Harman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During this period Harman became regarded as an over-promoted 'New Labour' apparatchik, and she was called 'Harriet Harrperson' by her fellow Labour MP Austin Mitchell.
On 16 March 2006, Ms Harman relinquished her Ministerial responsibilities for electoral administration and reform of the House of Lords.
Harman made a widely publicized gaffe on the BBC political talk-show programme Question Time on 18 March 2004 when she described Gordon Brown as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harriet_Harman   (766 words)

  
 Ex-prisoner 'threatened to kill Harriet Harman'
HARRIET HARMAN, the Labour MP, told a court yesterday that she endured 10 years of harassment by an "obsessed" ex-prisoner.
Miss Harman was near to tears as she told Central London county court that Masterson's obsession dated back 20 years to when she was a solicitor with the National Council for Civil Liberties and acted for him in an action he brought against the Home Office over prison conditions.
Miss Harman, 49, told the court: "I was obviously very frightened." She said she was told that, although the psychiatrist took the threat seriously, Masterson could not be held under the Mental Health Act because he was not mentally ill.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/09/14/nhaz14.html   (799 words)

  
 Bernard O'Mahoney - Future Books - WANNABEE in my gang? - Articles - 14/09/99 - Harman tells court of death threats ...
FORMER Cabinet minister Harriet Harman fought back tears yesterday as she told a court how a violent ex-convict made her life hell with 10 years of harassment and death threats.
Harman told how John Masterson, a Scot and friend of the Kray twins, made repeated visits to her constituency surgeries to abuse her and staged a hunger strike outside Labour Party headquarters.
Harman, a mother of three, was giving evidence in a case brought by Masterson against the Metropolitan Police.
www.bernardomahoney.com /forthcb/krays/articles/htcodto.shtml   (451 words)

  
 Harriet Harman under pressure over donations - Telegraph
Harriet Harman, the Labour deputy leader, has come under growing pressure to reveal the precise circumstances of the "illegal" £5,000 donation she received from the property developer at the centre of the party's fundraising scandal.
Angela Wilkins, a senior Labour Party official who recently joined Miss Harman's personal staff, administered the "1,000 Club" for the party's top donors; she is also said to have been responsible for ensuring that donations to the party were legal.
Earlier this week, it emerged that Miss Harman had received £5,000 towards the cost of her leadership campaign from Mrs Kidd, who was used by Mr Abrahams as the conduit for a series of donations to Labour.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/29/nbrown729.xml   (544 words)

  
 Welcome to Harman & Harman
Sarah Harman, the mother's solicitor, was furious, and you can't blame her for losing her temper.
Harriet Harman, the solicitor general, announced an inquiry into Munchausen cases, and, as luck would have it, Sarah was Harriet's sister.
He ruled that the passing of details of the case to Harriet Harman and Margaret Hodge were contempt’s of court.
www.harmans-solicitors.co.uk /hhnews/hhcurrentnews.asp?ID=19   (1395 words)

  
 Harriet Harman - Solicitor General - to be prosecuted
Ms Harman is a typical man-hating feminist who is completely unfit to hold any senior office, and yet she was the UK's Solicitor General..
Domestic violence is a crime which is a throw-back to when men expected to be the boss and were entitled to control their wives and entitled to assault them.
Ms Harman also continuously attempts to indoctrinate the public with the inflammatory view that men are 40 times more likely to rape a woman than is a woman likely to make up a false allegation of rape; e.g.
www.angryharry.com /esgoodluckmsharman.htm   (1147 words)

  
 Harriet Harman
Harman was previously the Solicitor General, a subordinate of the Attorney General who is in charge of the CPS.
Harriet Harman, the Solicitor General, says in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, that the law, "from a previous age", should be changed.
Miss Harman is considering creating a new form of defence that would allow women who kill their husbands after years of physical abuse to be treated more leniently.
www.ukmm.org.uk /issues/shame/harman.htm   (488 words)

  
 Search: the word 'terrorism' spoken by Harriet Harman (TheyWorkForYou.com)
Harriet Harman: The Committee's report dealt with its visit to the UK from 14 to 19 March 2004, to examine the treatment of detainees held under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001.
Harriet Harman: Prior to the implementation of the Anti-terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001, the SFO did not record the category of offences referred for mutual legal assistance by foreign authorities.
Harriet Harman:...There have been no specific referrals made to the SFO where bribery of a foreign public official is the sole or principle allegation, or where it has been appropriate to invoke powers under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001.
www.theyworkforyou.com /search/?s=terrorism&pid=10260&pop=1   (1370 words)

  
 Did Harriet Harman mislead parliament? Old letter sheds new light ...
Two days ago Harriet Harman told Parliament she "had been misadvised" as to the law regarding forwarding Family Courts papers.
Harriet Harman's 20th February 2002 letter to Tony Banks MP re Pelling (q.v.) shows that she did not need advice on this matter.
Dr Pelling is currently being prosecuted by Harriet Harman's boss for criminal contempt for supposedly breaching rules relating to court secrecy.
www.fathercare.org /harmanknew.htm   (616 words)

  
 Harriet Harman defiant in face of sleaze taunts - Telegraph
Harriet Harman today insisted she will not be forced out of the Cabinet by her role in Labour’s unlawful donations crisis.
Ms Harman, the Labour deputy leader and Leader of the House of Commons is under intense pressure after accepting a £5,000 donation from Janet Kidd, an intermediary used by David Abrahams.
Ms Harman’s staff have repeatedly refused to to deny that they actively sought the donation from Ms Kidd, raising questions about what if anything they knew about her relationship with Mr Abrahams.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/29/nbrown1329.xml   (615 words)

  
 BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews
HARMAN: Well I think that it is possible that as a result of the reporting of the Shadow Cabinet elections that the sense was, out in the public, that somehow this was a setback for women and that Labour..
HARMAN: No they're not the realities because what we're saying is that we have to modernise the policies of the Labour Party but the policies are absolutely based in our traditional concerns.
HARMAN: Well I think people think that a certain amount of time and attention has to be devoted to the party's constitution, and there are two things that arose out of the conference in Brighton.
www.bbc.co.uk /otr/intext93-94/Harman31.10.93.html   (1171 words)

  
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Harriet Harman was born in 1950 and brought up in London.
Harriet Harman's political career was a natural development from her concerns for feminism and civil liberties.
Harriet Harman was also Chair of the Childcare Commission, which presented its findings to the Government at the end of January 2001.
www.newport.ac.uk /news/05/march05/march0503.htm   (374 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Harman wins deputy leader contest
Harriet Harman is the new deputy leader of the Labour Party, after a seven-week contest to replace John Prescott.
She told the conference it was an "honour and a privilege" to be elected and to serve alongside Mr Brown.
Ms Harman talked about the achievements of the Labour government over 10 years, paid tribute to Mr Blair and her predecessor Mr Prescott, who she said would be a "very difficult act to follow" and thanked her fellow contenders.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/6234692.stm   (866 words)

  
 Donor scandal: Deputy Harriet Harman's future in question as she is axed from debate | the Daily Mail
Harriet Harman and her husband Jack Dromey were under intense pressure today as new questions were raised over donations to her deputy leadership campaign.
An analysis of Ms Harman's campaign funds has found that of the £46,000 donated to her, £33,000 was registered only after she won the deputy leadership on 25 June.
Ms Harman was due to lead for the Government in a debate on rape laws tomorrow but her deputy as equalities spokesman, Vera Baird, will now fill in.
www.dailymail.co.uk /pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=496940&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490   (1661 words)

  
 Make My Vote Count: Question Time, or why I hate career politicians
Ms Harman MP was in Leeds last night, representing her government on Question Time.
Obviously concerned that the anti-Tory woman was going to steal her thunder when it came to spouting specious nonsense, Harriet returned to the fore as the debate moved on to Prescott’s anti-teenager laws.
At this stage, Harriet was getting rather het-up and it was very difficult to pin down the gormless, frightened look that engulfed her face.
www.makemyvotecount.org.uk /blog/archives/2005/05/question_time_o.html   (1841 words)

  
 Harriet Harman: Home
WHEN Harriet Harman offered me her sympathies, I was rather taken aback.
Today in the House of Commons Harriet Harman QC MP, Leader of the House of Commons, made the...
Subscribe to Harriet's Newsletter for all the latest news about her work.
www.harrietharman.org   (583 words)

  
 Presentation by Harriet Harman MP on Electoral Registration - 27/10/2005
Presentation by Harriet Harman MP on Electoral Registration
Harriet Harman MP will make a presentation on electoral registration.
The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) is co-ordinating a pan-London voter registration drive in the run-up to the May 2006 elections.
www.alg.gov.uk /doc.asp?doc=15778&cat=2006   (369 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Profile: Harriet Harman
After becoming prime minister, Gordon Brown confirmed Ms Harman's return to the top flight of British politics by appointing her Labour chairman and the leader of the House of Commons.
Ms Harman's close association with both Mr Brown and Mr Blair may have helped her in 1996 when she attracted heavy criticism from Labour ranks for sending her three children to selective state schools.
During the deputy leadership contest, Ms Harman said she alone could broaden the party's appeal at the next election, helping it to win back voters in Middle England.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/5350450.stm   (552 words)

  
 Ed Miliband - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Miliband is the son of Marion Kozak and the late Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband, a Belgian–Jewish refugee during the Second World War, and read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Economics at the London School of Economics.
After a brief career in television journalism, he became a speechwriter and researcher for Labour politician Harriet Harman in 1993, and then for Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown the following year.
He has worked in an economic capacity since, although in 2003–4, he spent a year's sabbatical at Harvard University, as a visiting lecturer in government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Miliband   (296 words)

  
 Harriet Harman | Aristotle | Guardian Unlimited Politics
Harriet Harman was once the chilly beautiful face of New Labour, a middle class moderniser.
Mr Blair consistently protected her until a series of blunders, including cutting lone parent benefits in 1997, led to her fall from grace in July 1998 when she was sacked from the cabinet as social security secretary after just 14 months.
Her outspoken colleague Gwyneth Dunwoody said Ms Harman was one of those "women who were of the opinion that they had a God-given right to be amongst the chosen".
politics.guardian.co.uk /profiles/story/0,,457912,00.html   (395 words)

  
 Harriet Harman: News
On 15th November 2007 Harriet met with members of Southwark Credit Union to congratulate them as they celebrated their 25th Anniversary.
Harriet Harman celebrates the arrival of “Women Like Us” to South London and Congratulates Local Muslim Women on their Achievements
On Friday 9th November 2007 Harriet Harman MP, Minister of State for Women and Equality and MP for Camberwell and Peckham welcomed the award-winning social enterprise scheme “Women Like Us” to South London.
www.harrietharman.org /campaign_news.html   (422 words)

  
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Harriet Harman QC MP Minister of State for Constitutional Affairs Date: Thursday 8th June 2006 Time: 6.30pm Venue: The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL The Black Solicitors’ Network, invite you to the Annual BSN Lecture when the Rt.
Harriet Harman QC MP, Minister of State for Constitutional Affairs will speak on the theme of “Constitutional Reforms & Increasing Diversity in the Legal Profession”.
Harriet was born in 1950 and brought up in London.
www.tsg.org /BSNHarrietHarmanLecture.doc   (335 words)

  
 Press Releases - Harriet Harman Praises Street Law Students
Today Solicitor General Harriet Harman QC MP praised the work of two postgraduate law students from the University of Glamorgan for their work in promoting awareness of legal issues within local secondary schools in a "Street Law and Citizenship" project.
Ms Harman met Victoria Giblin and Simon Morea at a reception at the University's Law School following the launch of National Pro Bono Week at the National Assembly for Wales.
Pro bono work is the term used for legal services offered free by barristers, and this week's activities will highlight the work being done by lawyers across England and Wales in offering support to community groups and charities who are unable to afford the usual legal fees.
www.glam.ac.uk /news/releases/000587.php   (569 words)

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