Sir David Davis has called the prohibitive cost of court transcripts ‘a travesty of justice‘ and made the case for them to be freely available as they are in some US states. The former conservative ...

More than 400 healthcare professionals have backed a new initiative warning of ‘a culture of fear’ in the NHS preventing staff from speaking out and risking future medical miscarriages of justice as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost 800 years of additional time imposed on inmates for rule breaking last year has exacerbated overcrowding, resentment and safety issues in prisons, a leading charity has warned. Report by Piers ...

The Criminal Cases Review Commission recently announced a new programme of public engagement. (CCRC promises “greater transparency and openness” with launch of new public engagement initiative) ...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, there were only a limited number of ways to mount an effective challenge to a conviction, especially once the Appeal Court had rejected any approach on traditional grounds ...

INTERVIEW: A new series of BBC 2’s true crime documentary Conviction begins tonight following the work of Inside Justice in their re-examination of the case of Glyn Razzell. The legal charity’s ...

People with criminal records obviously want to reform criminal records checks. They face considerable bias and discrimination when they apply for jobs and their offence is disclosed in DBS checks.

The Home Office is set to end their contract with Stay Belvedere Hotels, who currently provide around a quarter of hotels used to house migrants waiting for decisions on asylum applications. The Home ...

Thames Valley Police have agreed to pay compensation to an anti-monarchist protestor, accepting that his 2022 arrest was unlawful. Symon Hill has been paid £2,500 after being arrested in September ...

The Law Society has criticised plans to create ‘intermediate courts’ to address the backlog of criminal cases awaiting trial in England and Wales. The interim report on the continuing crisis in courts ...