26/02/2014 The Papers

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debut for Doncaster. Hello. Welcome to our look ahead to

what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me is barrister

Sophia Cannon and Martin Bentham of the London Evening Standard. Let's

look at tomorrow morning's front pages. The Independent is leading on

the crisis in Ukraine, saying Russia is now on a war footing. The

Financial Times has the same top story, focusing on the stern

response from the White House, warning Russia to respect Ukrainian

territory. The Telegraph says couples will soon be able to draft

their own route delivered a divorce settlement without going to court.

The picture is of Lee Rigby's Sun and widow. Front page of the

Guardian is dominated by pictures of thousands of people waiting for food

and a Syrian refugee camp. The main stories on the scale domestic

violence faced women and children in Britain. The Metro has the soldier

Lee Rigby's picture, beside the headline for a life.

The Express says that some of us may expect snow soon. It's on the way,

folks. We are going to start with the Telegraph. The picture there of

Lee Rigby, the soldiers brutally killed by two men in Woolwich. That

is his wife and that is his son, there. The judge, handing down

sentences today, Sofia. What is interesting, in his comments while

sentencing, he referred to them as radical extremist spew espouse the

cause and views which are a betrayal of Islam and of the peaceful Muslim

communities that give so much to our country. That freaked them out. They

completely lost it in the dock. They see themselves as the true

inheritors of Islam? Indeed. I think Mr Justice Sweeney's comments were

for the wider unity of this country. It is so easy, is it not, for this

case to be appropriated by the far right, by those with a particular

political purpose, to incite racial or religious hatred. Like the

English Defence League? Indeed. It was repositioning Islam as a

religion of peace, the fact that these two converts have put forward

a perversion of Islam in such a dramatic way. It has to be quashed,

here and now. It was exactly what the relatives and the front page of

the Telegraph, having the wife and his son, it is what the family

wanted? Absolutely. They could possibly have got a whole life term

for both, but apart from that, the sentences are as low as possible,

pretty much. I don't think either of them will ever emerge again. There

has been a process, they have both faced justice. That is one fortunate

thing, it sounds terrible word to use in this circumstance, but these

two men wanted to die as martyrs. They are not going to die as

martyrs, they have not been granted that privilege, they might see it,

that glory, and so on. They are going to have to languish in prison

for the rest of their lives, which is a very good thing. Indeed. OK, we

are going to stay with the Telegraph as well. You could be out of a job,

soon? DIY divorce is to cut lawyers' bills. Apparently there

will be an online calculator, potentially, where couples can work

out who owes what and how they should divide up their property, so

on and so forth, to cut the bills of having to employ a lawyer to do

that. Indeed. Commissioned report actually brings clarity and

predictability we hope, to divorce, so that couples have an idea before

they sit down, before they walk down the aisle, of course, to know is

that a much they are going to pay if they do divorce. Notwithstanding the

fact that we have now got several equal marriage. We now have gay

marriage is coming in, equal marriage is coming into the frame

here. We have more people wanting to get married and, indeed, more

assets. And potentially more divorces. One wonders why this

hasn't been done before. Because, unfortunately, it is not quite as

simple as it might appear. They have spent two years, the Law

Commission, looking at this. This formula they are talking about is

something called in Canada the cookie cutter formula, where you

can't delete it on the length of time you have been together,

earnings, so on. Their role is also of occasions in the report. It says

you get an idea beforehand what you might get out but it is a rough

guide rather than a precise one that can be adjusted. You can have been

actual agreements, but that can be overridden by the needs of children

and different parties. There are still a lot of complexity, it is

just a way of trying to make the broader framework of it clearer and

simpler. There is always going to be, we call them the Call The

Midwife wife, they have been married since the 50s, they are going to be

seen differently by the legal process than the younger wife that

has been married for a couple of years and there is no children. This

is a good way of looking forward to how we can bring predict ability

into the process of getting divorced. Is there a wider issue?

I'm interested on your comments on this, being in the legal profession,

is there a wider sense that the legal profession in this country has

sat untouched for a long time? We have seen reform of the public

services, the union is taking part off Not a Paul! We have seen banks

taken to task. Is the legal profession finally being brought in

from the cold? We are seeing changes to legal aid and that being cut, now

this Law Commission, finally, this last Bastian is being modern eyes?

We have always been modern. The sheer fact that I am here, on

merit, means that the legal profession is one where you can be

certain of getting the best. It does not matter if your barrister is

young or old, whether that barrister is black or white, you have the best

of the best, being presented in criminal or civil cases. But this

actually goes back to the previous batch of legal aid cuts, which

removed legal aid for divorce cases. Most people are going to have to

sort it out at their own experience deliberate Spence. Most people don't

want to pay legal bills and will find ways of avoiding that. It is

potentially going to make prenuptial agreements legally binding, which

again cuts you folk out? The But who is going to draft them? I am a

former law student myself, I think you are as well? No? Not at all.

There is a sense that you guys have had it too easy for too long? The

whole idea of fat cat barristers is a myth. Many, many barristers, up

and down the country, are working for ?30 a day, even. You need to be

aware of that, that if you are arrested, late at night, God, you

hope, you hope that the barrister that attends you next morning is

someone who has the idea of how to protect you without fear or favour.

Not working in their wallet first. I have been well and truly slapped

down. If I am arrested in the middle of the night, I am calling you. That

go on to the Independent, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin puts Russia on a war

footing. Sabre rattling from Moscow, but are they likely to cross the

border? One would think not, but who knows? It's impossible to read. It

would seem to be, as you have said, sabre rattling, Russia wanted to

assert its authority and not be shut out of this whole debate, protect

the Russian minority in the country and the areas in which, Crimea being

one, where there is a Russian majority. There are a lot of Russian

citizens living in Ukraine in general. Clearly, Vladimir Putin is

wanting to assert himself, wanting to have the Russian viewpoint taken

into consideration to protect its citizens. Whether it leads to

anything more, I would doubt. But then, you can read what he... That's

it, he went to war in 2008, he marched into Georgia. There is

formed Indeed. We have to ask ourselves, are we looking at the

second premiere in war? The iron curtain has moved east, from Warsaw

to hear. The aspirations of its people have moved west. I don't

think we'll be involved, this time! The Crimean War without us, we

sincerely hope. The Guardian, 10,000 at risk of domestic violence? This

is where legal aid comes in and you're going to need a barrister to

represent you on either side of the domestic violence. If you falsely

accused, or if you are suffering from domestic violence. The problem

is that legal aid is available to women men who have suffered domestic

violence. But it is a hard test to prove. Many solicitors are finding

it extremely difficult to obtain legal aid funding for their

clients. And their clients are having to attend, on their own, in

court, before a judge, when they are alleging domestic violence. This

story, it is talking about the sheer scale of it. 10,000 living in risk?

It is based on police assessments, one of the points it makes in the

story, perhaps understandable, though not as I report, is that

there is a great variation in the way that different forces assess

things. Perhaps that is inevitable, it shouldn't be the case in a

theoretical world, but perhaps it is inevitable, as with lots of crime

statistics. Sussex, 211 women at high risk of homicide or serious

harm, in Surrey 17, in the Metropolitan Police area, a very big

one, 87, apparently. So, you can see the different ways of calculating,

in itself, are very varied. That raises a question as well. If men

were dying at the rate that women were dying, one`and`a`half a week...

As a result of domestic violence? There would have been a Royal

Commission by now. It is not just that these are random women. They

are identifiable women. It is predictable. They have raised the

red flags already and they have come to the notice of their police

forces, or social service departments, and they are still

dying. I'm not sure what a Royal Commission would achieve myself.

There are a lot of people in this position. On the other hand, how you

pick out ` there are cases here ` there is one here that a jury has

found in the case in Sussex that the police and CPS failed to take steps

that would have prevented a woman's death and so on. There are cases and

there are some very bad cases of that sort. I don't think it is (a)

the authorities are not trying to do the right thing ` and sometimes with

hindsight these things can look very easy. I'm not sure what a talking

shop would achieve. It is not a talking shop. It is to look at the

magnitude of how many women are dying in these circumstances that

are predictable. That is the thing we will need to note, they are

predictable, identifiable, what are we doing about it? The implications

for society for having children who die at the ` women and children who

die at the hands of their fathers is an ongoing issue. It is going to

damage society. Right. OK. We will very briefly ` we will skip the

Telegraph, or The Financial Times. We will go to the Telegraph Business

Section. Ryanair is pledging New York flights for ten euros. How can

they afford to do that? They have to buy the long`haul aircraft that they

need! So this is years down the road, right? That's the immediate

catch! Damn! I was looking forward to Thanksgiving in New York! They

are going to have certain business and first`class seats in there which

will be an unusual thing. Yes. That would subsidise... The other thing

is how many seats would be sold at this price? It might be one on each

flight. Yes. Is he going to charge you every step you walk up the steps

so that by the time you get on the plane, your ticket is... It is a new

fun Ryanair now(!) Their profits are down so they are changing all that.

I'm not convinced yet. Alright. You wait to be convinced. You will be

back in an hour's time to look at more of the stories behind the

headlines. Stay with us on BBC News because at the top of the hour, we

will hear the latest from Northern Ireland and the First Minister

there, Peter Robinson, who is warning prosecutions could still be

made against those who have received letters of assurance from the

Government that they won't be prosecuted. Stay with us for that.

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