The Office for Students (OfS) has issued a new set of guidelines to establish a firmer approach to managing lawful protests on university campuses within England. The guide aims to help balance ...

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The use of pepper spray to incapacitate children is ‘wholly irresponsible’ according to the head of the Independent Monitoring Boards (IMB) which inspect prisons in England and Wales. The IMB’s ...

A prison in Nottinghamshire has been given ‘the worst possible score’ on safety in its latest inspection by the prisons watchdog. An inspection report on HMP Lowdham Grange has revealed critical ...

Baroness Louise Casey was commissioned to produce the report earlier this year. She said the system failed due to ‘blindness, ignorance, prejudice, defensiveness, and even good but misdirected ...

According to the research, the data indicated ‘that people had lost faith in the criminal justice system’. ‘The CCRC is – as ...

On October 5, 1974 two public houses in Guildford, Surrey were bombed by the IRA without warning causing five deaths and over 60 injuries of varying severity. The bombs were placed in the pubs with ...

Remembering Paddy Hill The event was an opportunity to pay respects to Paddy Joe Hill of the Birmingham Six who died before Christmas. Cathy Molloy of Paddy’s Glasgow based organisation MOJO paid the ...

The system for compensating the wrongly convicted has almost ground to a halt with the Ministry of Justice having received 157 applications in the last two years and only paying out £10,000. Only ...

Peers called on ministers to end ‘the obscenity’ of indeterminate sentences known as IPPs (imprisonment for public protection) in a debate about amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts ...