All Criminal justice articles
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NewsSFO secures £900,000 confiscation order against Axiom Fund adviser
Former practitioner has three months to pay £928,479.89 or he could face more years added to his sentence for fraudulent trading.
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NewsNew backlog record renews conflict on jury curbs
Law Society says justice secretary David Lammy's solution merely transfers problem from one court to another.
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NewsBindmans lodges super-complaint over lengthy rape investigations
Law firm highlights 'potential systemic breach' of ECHR obligations.
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News'We cannot shirk reform': Lammy refuses to budge on jury trials
Lord chancellor defends Leveson review and says Crown court backlog will exceed 100,000 by the time of the next election without reform.
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NewsMPs demand evidence behind Lammy's jury plan
Ministry of Justice says impact assessment will be published when the legislation is introduced in parliament.
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NewsRetired solicitor convicted of sexual offences against former clients
Crown court jury finds 72-year-old guilty of 10 of the 22 charges against him.
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NewsCPS 'retention policy' leaves judge in dark over abuser's previous convictions
Recorder's eyebrow was raised by a lack of detail regarding a defendant’s 2022 battery offence.
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NewsFormer solicitor appointed Parole Board vice chair
Her Honour Anne Molyneux was admitted in 1983 before her career took her to the judiciary.
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NewsSuspended sentence for former CPS paralegal who accessed case file without permission
The 27-year-old admitted misconduct in public office.
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OpinionJury reforms ‘not just crisis management’
Courts minister Sarah Sackman MP says it is 'also about fundamental modernisation of our criminal justice system from top to bottom.'
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OpinionLast rites for more rights
As I predicted last week, David Lammy’s jury curbs turned out not to be quite as draconian as the draft plans leaked to The Times indicated they would be. An old political ruse was surely in play.
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NewsLammy doubles down on jury plan
Ministry of Justice figures suggest Crown court backlog could hit 135,100 by 2030.
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NewsLammy accused of downplaying offences to justify jury proposal
Deputy prime minister suggested right to elect a jury trial should be taken away from defendant accused of stealing an iPhone.
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NewsPost Office criminal charging decisions not likely until 2027, say police
Five individuals have been interviewed under caution as part of review into role of lawyers and investigators.
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NewsLammy's partial retreat on jury curbs fails to impress lawyers
City lawyers say judge-only trials will increase administratrive burden on bench and create perverse incentives.
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NewsLammy to reveal future of jury trials today
Deputy prime minister and lord chancellor says government must be bold in tackling 'courts emergency'.
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NewsCriminal legal aid fees to rise, government confirms
First increases will take effect this month, but others will have to wait until the Legal Aid Agency sorts out its troubled IT systems.
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ProfileLawyer in the news: Darrell Ennis-Gayle, Hodge Jones & Allen
Represents Durrell Goodall and Reano Walters, whose joint enterprise murder convictions have been referred by the Criminal Cases Review Commission to the Court of Appeal.