The IfG report finds the crown court backlog has almost tripled since 2019, at over 108,000 cases. Magistrates’ courts now take an average 6.5 months from offence to completion, 42 per cent longer ...
The government has announced new rules to increase protections for police officers facing misconduct hearings following ...
The government inquiry into grooming gangs who abused young girls in towns and cities across the UK has been mired in controversy this week as the personnel at the head of and the remit of the ...
To ease pressure, the HM Prison and Probation Service (PPS) introduced temporary schemes such as ‘Reset’ and ‘Impact’, which ...
Over 300 people have reported their experiences of racism and misogyny at the hands of the Met Police following a documentary ...
Sixteen men have died at Leeds prison in the last three years according to a new inspection report which has revealed ...
The first conviction relating to the Post Office’s pre-Horizon software, Capture, has been referred to the Court of Appeal by the miscarriage of justice watchdog. Patricia Owen was convicted of theft ...
A report that claimed racism was ‘baked into institutional design’ at the Metropolitan Police was never released by the force ...
Fewer than half of victims of crime believe that they can get justice according to a new survey, with 41% of rape and sexual ...
The first national monitoring scheme for joint enterprise cases has revealed that last year almost six out of 10 defendants were under 25 years and one in five under 18. Four cases involved children ...