Keir Starmer made a personal commitment yesterday to review the scandal of the lack of compensation and care for the victims ...

The Post Office Horizon scandal, which led to the most widespread miscarriage of justice in human history, caused 13 people to take their own lives according to a new report laying bare the ...

Charlie Taylor claimed that the police and prison service had effectively ‘ceded the airspace’ above two high security prisons to organised crime gangs delivering contraband by drones. He argued that ...

Joint enterprise – also known as secondary liability or complicity – has long been a contested area of criminal law in ...

Kim Johnson MP, chair of the APPG on Miscarriages of Justice, said there had been ‘several shocking reminders of the urgent need to address this issue – from the Post Office Horizon scandal to the ...

The House of Commons voted to create statutory immunity from prosecution for women who terminate their pregnancies, fundamentally altering the criminal law framework that has governed abortion in ...

The Law Society of England and Wales has called on the Government to invest more money in civil legal aid to ensure greater access for all. In collaboration with the Legal Services Board and YouGov, ...

Prisoners maintaining their innocence face ‘insurmountable obstacles’ trying to clear their names and had ‘lost faith’ in the justice system, according to a new study published today. The report makes ...

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is set to receive a real-term 1.8% spending increase according to the latest spending review announced by the Chancellor on Wednesday. The funding boost includes money ...

The leading prisons charity has called on the government to stop the rollout of PAVA spray in light of a report on youth custody by the prisons watchdog. The report highlights the lack of healthy ...

A national audit into ‘group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse’, commonly referred to as ‘grooming gangs,’ has found victims were blamed, disbelieved, or dismissed by the very authorities ...

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 ...