In response to the high rate of deaths in custody, the director at INQUEST, Deborah Coles, has previously called for ‘an end ...

Controversial jury trial reforms are set to be debated by MPs on 10 March as the government presses ahead with the Courts and ...

The proposal comes amid growing concern about the number of deaths linked to domestic abuse that are recorded as suicides rather than investigated as possible crimes. As previously reported in The ...

Youth prisons are failing to meet legal requirements for education according to new Ministry of Justice data, with some boys in Feltham, Werrington and Wetherby prisons having half the amount of ...

A Guardian investigation has revealed a key prosecution expert witness was undergoing a professional investigation into his fitness to practice when he gave evidence at Lucy Letby’s trial.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced that refugees will no longer be able to claim permanent refugee status and instead will face status reviews every 30 months. The move has been described as ...

A consortium of human rights groups has called for the ‘adversarial’ migrant age assessment body to be closed. Over 100 ...

A fourteenth person jailed by corrupt and racist police officer, Derek Ridgewell, has had their case referred back to the Court of Appeal by the miscarriages of justice watchdog.

The guidance for the court document retention regime is contained in the crown court’s Record Retention and Disposition Schedule. It currently states that the recordings of crown court trials should ...

Mark Alexander is serving life for the murder of his 70-year-old father, Samuel, found buried in concrete in 2010. The journalist Robin Eveleigh has been investigating the case for a podcast – see ...

The Metropolitan Police has successfully defended a legal challenge against its policy requiring officers to declare membership of the Freemasons, a move described as vital for restoring public trust.

Wrongful convictions hit the headlines every now and then: the Guildford Four, Barry George and Sally Clark. But those who successfully appeal the length or nature of their sentence receive very ...