All Criminal justice articles – Page 8
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Judge urges harmonisation of ‘arbitrary’ rules on embargoed draft judgments
High Court judge bemoans the ‘ongoing confusion’ surrounding contempt of court and which judgments can be shared.
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Legal Aid Agency speeds up billing process
Defence solicitors no longer have to wait until a case ends to submit claim for police station work.
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Reforming the criminal justice system: juryless trials
With rape conviction rates low across the UK, is it time to ditch juries?
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Legal aid expansion threatened by an antiquated IT system
Legal Aid Agency's digital system is a barrier to many proposals for legal aid reform. The government must invest in it now.
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Access to justice 'should be every lord chancellor's mission', says Chalk
Legal aid barrister 'spending a little time in politics' promises parliamentarians that he will do his best.
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Over 2,000 duty solicitors lost in a decade, Law Society warns
Chancery Lane chief says projections suggest 'perfect storm' awaits criminal justice system.
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Identification doctrine reform could put more corporates in the dock
Senior managers will be treated as 'directing mind and will' of a business under amendment to economic crime bill.
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Rape complainants to be offered pre-trial prosecutor meetings
Ministry of Justice says new obligation will be included in updated Victims' Code.
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Opinion
Covid inquiry: mixed messages over disclosure
There are a lot of questions Boris Johnson needs to answer.
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Could exemplary damages discourage corporate wrongdoings?
A 'punishment tax' would change attitudes of current and prospective wrong-doers towards litigation risk.
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Police Procedure and Evidence in the Criminal Justice System
Unlike many books in the field of policing, Police Procedure and Evidence in the Criminal Justice System is incredibly interactive and arguably visionary in its method of incorporating an online presence at the end of each chapter.
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Judge removed from office for deleting data
Judicial Conduct Investigations Office finds ‘misconduct of the utmost seriousness’.
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I had no knowledge of Gray's Inn 'explosive plot', businessman tells court
Jonathan Nuttall denies ever being aware of the incident which caused building evacuations and road closures.
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Gray’s Inn ‘explosives’: accused businessman to give evidence
Defence opens in Old Bailey trial centered on two ‘devices’ placed in the legal heart of London.
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Man spared jail after six-year delay in case coming to court
Judge cites time waiting for court hearing as a reason for non-custodial sentence.
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'Comprehensively dishonest man' jailed for posing as solicitor in court
Judge tells Sheffield Crown Court that Richard Lipscombe’s offending was 'one of the most serious examples that has come before the courts of a bogus solicitor'.
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CPS paralegal jailed for accessing case files
Assistant admitted misconduct in public office and perverting the course of justice.
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Inflation warning over legal aid reforms
Ministry of Justice publishes response to means test proposals nearly a year after consultation ended.
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Public Order Act prompts fresh call for devolved justice
Counsel general for Wales says legislation imposed by Westminster is authoritarian, undemocratic and dangerous.