A joint response to the government’s inquiry into tackling drugs in prisons has underlined the harms in current drugs policy, including the use of mandatory testing. It also highlights that despite ...

The Crown Prosecution Service has been given a month to decide whether it will challenge the appeal of a man who has been in prison since 1987 against his murder conviction. If successful, Peter ...

Lawyers who represented the men and women wrongly convicted of the Birmingham and Guildford pub bombings this week warned about a return to ‘the bad old days’, called for ‘a complete reconstruction’ ...

The justice system was facing ‘total gridlock’ next year as Labour inherited ‘completely unrealistic’ plans to tackle prison capacity. This was the bleak assessment offered by the House of Commons’ ...

A review of sentencing following a growing crisis in prisons in the UK has found the government might be considering shifting towards a ‘good behaviour credit’ system. Justice Secretary Shabana ...

The lawyer of a man who spent 17 years wrongly imprisoned and received just £46 from the state has called on the Lord Chancellor to urgently reform compensation arrangements for the victims of ...

The Government has announced plans for a major reform of private prosecutions following concerns over ‘catastrophic failures’ in the Post Office Horizon scandal and the Single Justice Procedure (SJP).

With a new drama about Ruth Ellis’s trial and execution for murder seventy years ago coming to television, Neil Root looks at how in just five years the leading lawyer Christmas Humphreys, also ...

An inquest into the death of a man who died after falling from a bridge into the Thames has found police tasered him three times before he entered the river. Oladeji Omishore, 41, was experiencing a ...

Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, there were only a limited number of ways to mount an effective challenge to a conviction, especially once the Appeal Court had rejected any approach on traditional grounds ...

The current inquiries into historical child abuse in England and Wales and in Scotland entail that, once again, the actions of residential care workers come under heightened scrutiny. As a former ...