As a number of recent cases have shown, the provision at present, although meant as an exceptional exercise, is being routinely abused by defence lawyers keen to tarnish the reputation of the complainant, effectively arguing that, the greater number of consensual sexual encounters s/he engages in, the less possibility there is of s/he being raped. The constant misuse of the provision is resulting in many miscarriages of justice, and, more importantly, is creating the impression among many victims of sexual assault that pursuit of justice will not only prove fruitless but further victimise and humiliate them.

We want to see positive change for all children to develop and by nurtured by both parents and their respective families after divorce and or separation. Help us challenge for Change.

To allow anyone or any corporation to have the power to steal and make its own governance shows weakness and untrustworthiness in the powers that are meant to uphold the moral and financial status of our democracy. Restore some faith and decency in our society by taking a stand against bullying tactics and tax dodging corporations. If a man or woman in the street committed these atrocities, they would be arrested, investigated, stripped of all their worth and jailed. The duality of responsibility is reprehensible and must be addressed! The public must make a stand or we are accepting oppression!

Fourteen prisons in England and Wales, most of which hold short-term inmates, have reconviction rates of more than 70%, Ministry of Justice figures disclosed today reveal.

The current system of creating money through the sale of ever increasing layers of debt, and now, the BofE operating an unaccountable balance sheet which defies principle or prudence, is plumbing the depths of fantasy economics, is unsustainable in nature. It is starting to resemble a listing pirate ship liable to sink at any moment. Only Sound money can deliver a reduction of inequality, a sustainable future for the environment and the next generation and re-establish trust in government, creating a new united kingdom that everyone can believe in.

I am a consultant for additional educational and emotional needs. I have spent most of the last 50 years working with young people who have complex learning difficulties. We, as a society, must show understanding and compassion. DR MIC CAROLAN

The corporate world needs to be told that they profit from us plenty without needing to steal from us. As well as this petition, I suggest everybody goes into an apple shop and talk with the helpful sales staff about their products. Then ask them about the unpaid taxes and inform them you won't be buying anymore until THEIR company does the right thing. Each worker is a shareholder after all, so they have power and they are all profiting from the dodgy dealings.

These are barbaric devices are simply aimed at humiliating people. Regardless of what someone has been arrested for they should not be subjected to this level of humiliation. This is a link to a video showing how the Police used one of these masks on a young black lad. The use of these masks is absolutely disgusting and if it is allowed to continue who knows where such practices will end up? http://www.thecanary.co/2016/09/06/met-police-adds-new-weapon-collection-controversial-wont-use-public/

In September 2015, Justice Minister Andrew Selous, dropped promises made in the Conservative manifesto to crack down on corporate crimes, because he said there was “little evidence of corporate economic wrongdoing going unpunished”. This decision flew in the face of statements by the Law Commission that existing laws were “inappropriate and inadequate” and was criticized by Corruption Watch. London has been labeled by Transparency International as the world’s “number-one home for the fruits of corruption”, and since the Panama papers’ leak in April 2016, has been exposed as being at the epicenter of an intricate web of tax havens, as well as being the world’s centre for money laundering. After the 2008 crash, the financial commentator, Joris Luyendijk, said ‘the fact that nobody went to jail after such a breakdown means that there is something wrong with the rules themselves.’ NOTHING HAS CHANGED!

Recently I was fired for exercising my statutory rights: I asked my boss why I had been paid less than I was supposed to be; my pay in fact added up to less than the minimum wage (which for my age group was £5.30 at the time). The money owed - about £25, was not enough be worth taking to small claims court, which would have costed me far more than it was worth and what I could afford. I was also on zero hours, having never been presented with an actual contract and never receiving a payslip in the 6 total months that I worked there; I could not even claim lost wages from being unjustly dismissed. However I was still furious at the way I had been treated, but powerless to do anything about it. I can imagine that this must happen far too often, where (especially young and often student) employees are left in a vulnerable position and cannot claim anything. Worst of all their employer does not face any repercussions, so they are free to continue and do the same thing to the next person that comes along. There should be a fine introduced for employers who do not pay their employees the legal minimum wage. The amount of money owed would be under a certain threshold for this to happen, where it would not be worth going to small claims court, or worth the extortionate fees. Protect young workers and their right to fair pay; don't let employers get away with this.

People rely on their phone connections and internet. For some people who work from home, they need to get online to earn money to get by. For carers and people for whom it's hard to get around, being connected is a lifeline. TalkTalk lures people in by promising high speeds and low costs. But in practice they deliver poor service. When things go wrong, they have a bad track record of sorting problems out quickly, often leaving people disconnected for weeks at a time. TalkTalk need to improve fast, or be stopped from making promises they don't keep.

We currently face a problematic situation where there is a schism between the laws that protect patients within the NHS and those that relate to private healthcare when an injury is sustained by a patient due to negligent treatment. Private healthcare patients are commonly led to believe that the care they are paying for will exceed the highest standards offered by the NHS, and assume that the claims made in company mission statements, advertising literature and company accounts have to be correct and true by law. Unfortunately, this is not so. In cases where patients are treated wrongfully or negligently private healthcare patients currently have less access to adequate redress and compensation than NHS patients. This is partly because liability insurance for surgeons in the private sector is discretionary rather than mandatory meaning that cover can be withdrawn – even retrospectively – leaving patients without the possibility of compensation. The petitioners therefore ask Parliament to legislate to require all private healthcare providers/companies/institutions to have liability insurance covering compensation for negligence in the work of their employees and of freelance healthcare professionals working on their behalf or practising on their premises. Furthermore, private healthcare providers/companies/institutions should be obligated to ensure that the surgeons they provide to perform procedures are not only correctly qualified and competent, but also not under investigation, suspension or other disciplinary action from other private healthcare providers/companies/institutions or NHS authorities. At present legislation is insufficient, allowing one private healthcare company to permit their legal representatives to write in a legal defence document that they were ‘under no obligation to provide competent surgeons to perform surgery at the hospital’ and had ‘no duty to protect patients from harm, and risk of injury’. The Petitioners would like to add that legislation should be put in place to ensure that no surgeon under disciplinary procedures can work anywhere in the UK (NHS or private sector) until the issues for which they are being investigated are properly and completely resolved to the satisfaction of the GMC, the patient(s) and in the case of fatalities the patients' families. We ask Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt and the Department of Health to close the legal loophole which allows for private healthcare patients to be left without protection or redress when things go wrong. With an increasing role played by private healthcare companies fulfilling NHS contracts we must put public safety first and ensure that private healthcare companies are obligated to provide clinical excellence for all their patients, to be transparent in their investigation of complaints and to provide proper protection and redress if things go wrong. We must not allow negligent practice to run rife in the private sector, and we cannot allow ruthless profiteering without responsibility to permeate our NHS.