All Criminal justice articles – Page 106
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NewsBar takes next step towards ABS licensing
Regulator tenders for intervention agents ahead of formal approval as licensing body.
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NewsLiz Truss fields first questions as justice secretary
Lord chancellor tight-lipped on Human Rights Act reform in parliamentary questions session.
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NewsSRA sanctions lawyer convicted of distributing indecent images
Stephen Coleclough must notify Solicitors Regulation Authority of any future work.
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NewsVictims should be given right to restorative justice, MPs assert
Justice select committee says provision should be included in Victims’ Law.
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NewsRenewed call for problem-solving courts to be piloted
Centre for Justice Innovation publishes fresh evidence.
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NewsCity police look for panel managers
First steps in scheme to recover criminal assets through civil litigation.
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OpinionAccess to justice for Travellers and Gypsies
A new movement aims to highlight the problems still faced by these groups and to end discrimination against them.
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News‘Unduly lenient’ sentences hiked for 102 offenders
Number has risen 13% since 2010, but requests have more than doubled – suggesting judges ‘generally get sentencing right’.
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NewsTruss confirms commitment to Human Rights Act reform
Justice secretary's statement dashes speculation that British bill of rights had been shelved.
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OpinionWe are one profession
Foreign firms competing with world-class City practices will be delighted the LSB is seeking to degrade our quality mark.
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NewsPeople of colour and poor whites failed by justice system – report
Equality and Human Rights Commission says government must establish a coordinated race strategy.
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NewsFirms line up for asset recovery ‘privatisation’
City of London Police has fielded strong interest from profession in inaugural fraud panel.
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OpinionProceeds of crime: outsourcing makes sense
The use of civil fraud solicitors to boost asset recovery rates is a welcome step forward.
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OpinionTouting situation is deteriorating
The SRA is dangerously proposing to water down public protection from touting.
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NewsInquiry to ask why BAME lawyers don’t make judiciary
Evidence-gathering period of David Lammy's review into racial bias in criminal justice system is now complete.
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NewsCriminal justice ‘institutionally racist’, solicitors allege
London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association says black defendants can often expect ‘white judges and an all-white courtroom’.
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NewsPolice station reps banned over convictions
Non-solicitors Derek Martin Parker and John Bull were authorised by the Legal Aid Agency.
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NewsHate crime guidance for prosecutors to deal with social media
Home secretary Amber Rudd cites anxiety about a 'climate of increased hostility towards people identified as foreigners’.
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NewsJustice advisory council’s future up in the air after reshuffle
Former lord chancellor Michael Gove established council after scrapping the controversial two-tier criminal legal aid contracting regime.