An international panel of neonatologists and medical experts reviewing the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital has found no evidence of murder by the former nurse Lucy Letby – instead ...

The chief executive of the troubled miscarriage of justice watchdog spent thousands of pounds of public money on luxury French hotels, according to a Guardian investigation. It is reported that Karen ...

A jury has acquitted six young Black boys of all charges after rejecting the prosecution’s attempt to convict them under joint enterprise laws. Joint enterprise allows for the prosecution of ...

Women’s prisons have ‘astonishing gaps in basic decency’ and an ‘overreliance’ on physical force according to new research which examined conditions in four jails. Self-harm among women in prison has ...

The government plans to double funding towards neighbourhood policing teams, investing £200 million in the next financial year. The funding aims to ensure the government meet their target of ...

Reported incidents of rape and sexual assault have risen fourfold in the past decade, according to a new report that says the Home Office has made ‘little progress’ to improve the situation. One in 12 ...

An inquest into the deaths of three inmates at HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire has exposed serious failings in prison management, raising concerns about the safety of vulnerable prisoners. The ...

The miscarriage of justice watchdog has referred the conviction of the final member of the ‘Stockwell Six’ more than than 50 years after being convicted. Ronald De Souza was convicted on 22 September ...

The Westminster inquiry into joint enterprise yesterday began its call for written evidence into the controversial common law doctrine that allows multiple people to be prosecuted and punished for the ...

The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, introduced in Parliament on the 30 th of January, has given wide counterterrorism-inspired powers to border enforcement agencies in the UK. Angela ...

More than four out of 10 applicants to the Court of Appeal were left to navigate the appeals process without help from a lawyer last year, representing the largest number of litigants against in ...

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 ...