All Criminal justice articles – Page 8
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NewsSingle Justice Procedure punishes mistakes made 'due to illness or disability'
Transform Justice’s report recommends a free phoneline to help those facing the SJP and an AI-based app to help defendants navigate the process.
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NewsThinking with your eyes shut
Barristers used to pile across the road to a restaurant opposite the Old Bailey for a couple of glasses of wine at lunch. And what about judges?
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NewsLaw Commission calls for mandatory training on rape myths
Proposed reforms designed to better protect complainants while maintaining fair trials for defendants in sexual offences cases.
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NewsUnder 1 in 10 miscarriage of justice applicants are represented
CCRC calls on Public Defender Service to help following plunge in number of applicants with a lawyer.
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NewsParalegal jailed for stealing from firm's clients
Poole law firm employee exploited her position to extort money from two of the firm’s vulnerable clients.
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NewsCCRC refers first pre-2000 Post Office conviction for appeal
Patricia Owen died in 2003 but her family has campaigned for her name to be cleared.
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OpinionMacrocrimes magnified
Treatise on International Criminal Law: Volume III: International Criminal Procedure (second edition).
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NewsStalker turned up at KC's chambers, court hears
Man admits one charge of stalking and will be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court at a later date.
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NewsMoJ urged to produce mission statement for prisons
House of Lords committee says there is a lack of clarity on what objectives should be prioritised.
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OpinionWhat are prisons actually for?
Solving the crisis requires more than simply creating more prison spaces.
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NewsEarly handling of rape cases 'not good enough', CPS watchdog finds
Prosecutors criticised for interrogating victim credibility but not scrutinising suspects' behaviours and actions.
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NewsReoffending no higher under release scheme, says prisons minister
Lord Timpson says reoffending rate ‘no more than we normally see’, but probation service is 'really struggling'.
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NewsIn depth: Criminal justice crisis - lawyers react to Leveson's radical blueprint
'Essential measures’ needed to prevent ‘total collapse’ - Crown court backlogs, jury trials and ‘perverse fee incentives’ all came under Sir Brian's critical gaze.
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NewsPay duty solicitors more for working 'unsocial hours', MoJ told
Law Society says police officers are struggling to get a solicitor to attend the station at night.
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NewsLeveson review: end 'perverse incentives' for solicitors
In wide-ranging 378-page criminal courts review, Sir Brian Leveson says legal aid fee systems discourage early guilty pleas.
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NewsJury trials could be curbed, Mahmood hints
Ahead of publication of Leveson review, Shabana Mahmood says jury trials take five times longer than cases heard in the magistrates' court.
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OpinionLeveson looms: curbing trials by jury
Battle lines are already being drawn, with lawyers setting out to defend jury trial and the courts minister insisting that justice delayed is justice denied.
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NewsNot to be sniffed at
‘Smell detector’ devices to detect drugs was one idea pitched to prisons and probation minister to crack Crown court backlog.
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OpinionSummer reading list for lawyers
In search of a book for the beach? David Pickup shares his holiday reads.
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NewsJudge throws out drug-driving case after CPS ignores emails
Lawyers defending accused sent three letters to a valid CPS email address, which went unanswered.