Courts 'gridlock' fears as judges to stop sending criminals to overcrowded prisons
Prisons are out of control with violence increasing and drug use rampant, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been warned.
Council had ‘entrenched mismanagement’ of busway safety, court hears
Jennifer Taylor, Steven Moir and Kathleen Pitts all died in separate incidents with Cambridgeshire Guided Busway between 2015 ...
China erupts with fury at Taiwan as Beijing labelled 'foreign hostile power'
New president "William" Lai Ching-te has been increasingly robust about Taiwan's independence from China and Beijing isn't ...
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Westminster update: lord chancellor announces record courts investment
Your weekly update on the latest developments and debates in Parliament and across Whitehall. This week: record courts ...
Activists challenge UK demand for Apple to create data ‘back door’
Privacy International and Liberty’s complaint adds pressure on government as iPhone maker fights demand in court ...
Sentencing chiefs face warned 'two-tier justice system' will escalate court backlogs and cost tens of millions of pounds to implement
It will blow a hole in the Probation Service's budget and overwhelm them, creating delays that will mean victims have to wait longer for justice.' ...
Judge Judy slams UK's 'two-tier' sentencing guidelines and says she'd be 'furious' if she had to implement them herself
The world famous TV judge has said she would be 'furious' if she was a judge who had to implement the guidelines, which Keir ...
Courts failing children of divorcees, says lawyer
A solicitor claims the legal system is "harming" children whose parents are splitting up due to the length of time it is ...
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Company Director jailed after receiving £250,000 via fraudulent loans during COVID
Mohammed Uddin, 37 of Dunmow, Essex, previously pleaded guilty to five counts of false representation to make gain and was ...
Mother’s death on guided busway ‘such a preventable accident’, court told
The son of an Oxfam volunteer who was struck and killed by a bus on the world’s longest guided busway said it was “such a ...
Cambridgeshire County Council had ‘entrenched mismanagement’ of busway safety, court hears
Jennifer Taylor, 81, Steven Moir, 50, and Kathleen Pitts, 52, all died in separate incidents with Guided Busway between 2015 and 2021. | ITV News Anglia ...
UK’s biggest class action lawsuit could expose the perils of litigation funding
This week lawyers are delivering their closing arguments in the UK’s biggest ever class action lawsuit relating to a dam ...