The growing age imbalance in the duty solicitor scheme in England and Wales risks eroding trust in the criminal justice ...

FOR decades, Geoff Clapp was north Cumbria’s pre-eminent criminal defence lawyer. Despite his boarding school education, Geoff had a genius for working with ordinary people, usually when a personal ...

Ralph is a professor of anthropology and public affairs at Princeton University. His book SITO: An American teenager and the City that Failed Him, is out now from Grand Central Publishing It was dark ...

Sheku Bayoh was 31 when he died in May 2015 after being restrained by six police officers on a street in the Fife town of ...

Although the current figures suggest some available capacity, the reality is more complex. Around 1,350 cell spaces are kept in reserve as a contingency, to ensure prisons can operate safely and ...

County Durham and Darlington Police and Crime Commissioner Joy Allen is demanding stronger action to rebuild confidence in ...

Less than half of victims surveyed by a watchdog were confident they could get justice by reporting a crime or that the ...

Data-based profiling tools are being used by the UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to algorithmically “predict” people’s risk of committing criminal offences, but pressure group Statewatch says the use of ...

The Ministry of Justice has received a criminal conviction with a £1,000 fine over a speeding ticket, after officials did not ...

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay has welcomed the news that the man who attacked him with acid 10 years ago has ...