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 ...
On Friday, the Ministry of Justice announced the first civil legal aid fee rise since 1996, for immigration and housing work. This development follows judicial review proceedings launched by Duncan ...
Murder is to intentionally take another’s life. For such a heinous crime there must be an equally severe punishment. Something to hurt the perpetrator, deter others and protect society from further ...
In his article of 9th February 2024 on the Justice Gap, “If Justice were a delusion, it would not be worth fighting for,” Here Francis Fitzgibbon KC initially suggests that I now think that the ...
The miscarriage of justice watchdog is to revisit more than 1,200 previously closed murder and rape cases following an internal review. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) announced in April ...
Nisha Waller and Tehreem Sultan 22 Nov Miscarriages of Justice ...
Frances Crook believes ‘politicians are still stuck in the 1950s’ when it comes to our criminal justice system. For 35 years, she has been at the helm of the Howard League for Penal Reform, trying to ...
Prisoners are being forced to live in ‘appalling and sometimes inhumane’ conditions according to a new investigation into the ‘crumbling’ prison estate. It has found that conditions in prisons across ...
Last week, defendants in custody could not attend Isleworth Crown Court because the court’s cells were ‘too cold’. Issues with heating resulted in freezing conditions in the cells at Isleworth on two ...
The Home Secretary has announced plans for new ‘Respect Orders’ to handle anti-social behaviour, with offenders facing up to two years in prison. These new powers include the ability to ban ‘hooligans ...
A cross-party group of MPs has called for an end to legal threats that are used to silence whistle-blowers and journalists. These legal warnings, known as strategic legal actions against public ...
The Ministry of Justice has published an urgent improvement plan for HMP Winchester, after a damning report by the Prisons watchdog, HM inspectorate of Prison, in October 2024. The plan will allow the ...