THE LAW
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Alderson - Mark ….. U.K ..... in May 1000 he became the FIRST person in Britain to be banned from a town centre for repeated kerb crawling. It was the FIRST ruling of its type to be issued by magistrates under the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act
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Beckett - Sir William à ..... AUSTRALIA ..... FIRST chief justice of Victoria, Australia - 1852 to 1857
Belgium ….. Ghent - in 1899 the police force was the FIRST to officially adopt the use of police dogs
Blackstone – Sir William ..... U.K ..... FIRST Professor of Law at Oxford
Borrowdale - Ian ..... U.K ..... in 2000 he became the FIRST person to be convicted on CCTV evidence of driving whilst banned. He was jailed for six weeks
Bundy Ted ..... U.S.A ..... earned himself the FIRST-ever title of "serial killer" after raping and murdering at least 16 women in a killing spree across America in the 1970s
Bush - Edwin ….. Englishman who was the FIRST criminal to be caught using the identikit system in 1961. He admitted his crime and was executed for the murder of Elsie Batten
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Carson - Mike ..... U.S A ..... FIRST man to divorce on the Internet ( 1999 or 2000 ?)
Chandler - Tony..... U.K ..... in September 1999, at Bury, Manchester, he became the FIRST person in Britain to be charged under the new air-rage laws
Christiensen - Eusten ..... U.K ..... FIRST coloured J.P in Manchester, England
Ciancimino Vito ..... born 1924 died 2002 ..... ITALY ..... Christian Democrat Mayor of Palermo, Sicily, who was the FIRST Italian politician to be found guilty of mafia membership
Claiborne- Harry ..... U.S.A ..... FIRST Federal Judge to be convicted of tax evasion in America
Czolgosz - Leon ..... the FIRST assassin to be caught on film when he murdered U.S President William McKinley in 1901
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DNA ..... U.K ..... in 1986 the world's FIRST database of blood was launched to help to catch the killers of two schoolgirls murdered at Narborough. This resulted in the FIRST criminal conviction using DNA fingerprinting when Colin Pitchfork was sentenced to two life sentences for the crime
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Egerton - John ..... U.K ..... FIRST Greater Manchester Police officer to be murdered on duty. A Trophy for bravery was later endowed in his honour
Estrada - Joseph ..... PHILIPPINES ..... FIRST Philippines leader to face trial when he was charged, in September 2001, with plundering the economy of his country. The offence carried a maximum penalty of death
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Fielding - Henry ..... U.K ..... author of the novel Tom Jones which was published in 1749 he also founded the country's FIRST salaried police force in the same year. He became London's Chief Magistrate in the 1740s and co-founded these FIRST detectives, known as Bow Street Runners, with his half brother John who had been blinded in an accident when he was 19 years old. One of the constables, Joshus Brogden, doubled as the country's FIRST court reporter sending his dispatches from Bow Street Magistrates Court over which Henry Fielding presided. When Henry died John succeeded him and was known as the Blind Beak. When John was later knighted it was the FIRST time in history that men from society's lower ranks could rise to its upper echelons
Flynn - Martin ….. U.K ..... FIRST parent in Britain to be convicted of smacking his child - May 2000
Fulford - Sir Adrian ..... U.K ..... FIRST openly gay judge when appointed to the High Court in January 2003. He is Britain's representative at the International Criminal Court which will try alleged war criminals
Fuller Mike ..... U.K ..... Britain's FIRST black Chief Constable when appointed as the new head of Kent Police in September 2003. He formally took charge on 5th January 2004. In 1999 he was the FIRST black member of the Association of Chief Police Officers
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Galton - Sir Francis ..... born 1822 died 1911 ..... U.K ..... English scientist who was the FIRST to realise the value of finger prints in criminal investigations when he devised the system of fingerprint identification with Finger Prints (1892)
Garne - Mohamed ..... FRANCE ..... in the FIRST ruling of its kind he was recognised as a war victim when he was born after his mother was gang-raped by French soldiers during the Algerian war in 1959. He was awarded a temporary war pension by a Paris court
Greater Manchester Police Force ..... the FIRST police force in Britain to launch a witness protection scheme ..... and ..... in September 2002 PC Paul Scott became one of the FIRST ten police officers in the force to take up the school beat when he was posted to Albion High School in Salford. As well as patrolling the school grounds to ensure the safety of pupils he will also play a role in promoting citizenship and will work in the classrooms helping children to understand social issues and the consequences of crime and drug abuse. One hundred officers will eventually be based in schools nationwide as part of the government's Safer Schools Partnerships
Grey Seals Protection Act 1914 ..... the FIRST ever legislation to protect a mammal in the UK
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Hammond - Ray ….. U.K ..... black person who endured a catalogue of threats and racist abuse whilst working at BT. One of his tormentors, Paul Healey, was sentenced in Greater Manchester Police's FIRST ever workplace racism case - September 2001
Harris - Nigel ….. U.K ..... in 1999 he became the FIRST person in Britain to be prosecuted for harassment by e-mail
Hill - Daniel ..... U.K ..... FIRST beggar in Britain to be barred from scrounging in a city's streets under a 178 year old law when council officials got a county court injunction under the 1824 Vagrancy Act outlawing him from begging anywhere in the town of Bristol
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Jay - John ….. U.S.A ..... FIRST chief justice of the U.S.A
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Kenton - Bill ….. U.K ..... Manchester's FIRST blind magistrate - June 2001
King-Hamilton - Alan ..... U.K ..... FIRST barrister in England ever to be appointed a QC
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Mannerheim - Lars August ..... SWEDEN ..... the FIRST Ombudsman when appointed as Swedish Justitie Ombudsman on March 1st 1810 and held office until he resigned the post in 1823. The office was created as an institution of the Swedish Estates under the Constitution of 1809 to serve as a bulwark between the State and the individual
Marshall - Bill ..... U.K ..... in 1896 he received the FIRST parking summons in Britain. He had left his car parked awkwardly in the city of London
Marshall - Thurgood ….. born 1908- ….. U.S.A ..... FIRST black Supreme Court Justice in the United States of America - 1967
Medicine - John Alternative neé Mackay ….. U.K ..... FIRST unqualified therapist to be convicted under new laws which made it illegal to describe yourself as an osteopath without being registered with the General Osteopathic Council - May 2001
Melbourne William Lamb - 2nd Viscount ..... born 1779 died 1848 ..... U.K ..... English statesman who was the FIRST Prime Minister to be sued for adultery ( 'criminal conversation' as it was then known) over his friendship with Caroline Norton in 1836. The charge was thrown out of court
Melias - Robert ..... U.K ..... FIRST criminal to be convicted using DNA evidence in November 1987 at Bristol Crown Court. However he was not the first to be identified using DNA
Miller - Vance ….. U.K ..... FIRST person in Britain to face threats of court action by consumer chiefs under new get tough legislation when the Office of Fair Trading began proceedings against him for rogue trading - December 2001
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New York City Police Department ….. in 1905 it established the FIRST police motorbike patrol
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Peel - Sir Robert ..... born February 5th 1788 ..... U.K ..... who established the FIRST disciplined policing of London
Pelletier - Nicolas - Jacques ..... highwayman who was the FIRST French criminal to be guillotined - France 1792
Pinkerton - Allan ….. born 25th August 1819 died 1884 ….. U.S.A ..... Scotsman who emigrated to America in 1842 and settled in Illinois. In 1850 he became a detective and deputy-sheriff of Chicago and there he founded the FIRST private detective agency in America
Podola - Guenther Fritz Erwin ..... U.K ..... in 1959 he was the FIRST prisoner accused in a British court of murder, to claim that he was unfit to plead because of hysterical amnesia. Apart from some minor "windows of recollection" he claimed that he could remember nothing of his life prior to waking up in hospital after his somewhat violent arrest. A jury was brought in to decide on his claim and they found that he was NOT suffering from loss of memory. He was eventually found guilty and hanged in Wandsworth Prison on November 5th 1959. He not only made legal history, but gave a new word to the language of the law and the police - Podolatry - meaning leaning over backwards to be fair to a prisoner, especially a foreign one
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Ratcliffe - Anthony ….. U.K ..... FIRST teacher to win a pay-out for stress when he was awarded £101,000 in 1998
Richards - William James ….. U.K ..... the FIRST Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police
Ridley - Alfred ..... U.K ..... FIRST person in the U.K to be jailed for not paying his council - 2005. He spent a month in Woodhill Prison near Milton Keynes
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Sachs – Mr Justice ….. U.K ..... FIRST solicitor in Britain to become a judge
Sawoniuk - Anthony ….. U.K ..... FIRST man to be convicted in the UK of Nazi war crimes
Severn Trent Water ..... U.K ..... FIRST utility company in U.K history to be convicted of criminal fraud
Simmonds - Darren ….. U.K ..... in 1998 he became the FIRST person in Britain to be convicted of assault in a prosecution based entirely on photographic evidence. He was jailed for attacking his girlfriend even though she had refused to give evidence
Stockport Flooring Company..... U.K ..... in April 2002 the FIRST successful prosecution in Manchester for the offence of fly-posting was brought against them. The firm was fined £500 for putting up posters advertising the company in various locations around Manchester
Sturman - James Q.C ..... U.K ..... FIRST barrister to earn more than £1m in legal aid in a year when he was paid £1,180,000.00 in 2004-2005 in criminal legal aid. He represented Harold Shipman's family at the killer doctor's inquest and headed a list of twelve barristers who were paid £8,934,000.00 by the Criminal Defence Service
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Velez-Troya - Eugenio ..... set up the FIRST university course in private investigation which covered subjects such as civil and criminal law, forensic analysis and psychology
Vidocq - Eugéne Francois ..... FRANCE ..... the FIRST police detective when he became the FIRST head of the French Sûreté in 1812. During the time that he was head he was the only member who belonged on the Police Force, those that assisted him were employed as agents only. When he retired he established the world's FIRST private detective agency , the Bureau des Renseignments au Service des Intérêts Privés in Paris
Vucetich - Juan ..... Argentina ..... set up the world's FIRST fingerprint bureau in 1892 after adopting the system of classifying fingerprints devised by Sir Francis Galton in 1884
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Wilmot - Paul ….. U.K ..... in 2000 he became the FIRST man in Britain to complete a divorce through the internet. He downloaded the necessary forms, returned them online with his credit card details and six months later a court granted him a decree absolute