All Criminal justice articles – Page 90
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NewsStressed and working for free: barristers blame solicitors for extra workload
Perception that solicitors are 'doing less than previously’ in criminal cases cited in Bar Council report on working lives.
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OpinionCriminal bar should reject the government's offer
The Ministry of Justice is willing to inject £15m into the AGFS scheme. Bar chiefs should demand cash for solicitors too.
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NewsGauke: criminal bar's action to disrupt the courts is unacceptable
Lord chancellor says the government is taking 'all necessary steps' to ensure legal representation is available.
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NewsJudges' bar boycott 'bullying' may force solicitors to take action
Justice select committee told of unqualified staff conducting hearings and an unrepresented defendant receiving a life sentence.
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NewsBlow for SFO as court throws out Barclays case
Crown court dismisses charges over emergency cash injections from Qatar.
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NewsCPS fined £325k for losing DVDs containing victim interviews
Information Commissioner's Office imposes second penalty to Crown Prosecution Service.
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NewsQuestion mark remains over cross-examination support for vulnerable witnesses
Support under section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act should have been available last year.
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NewsMunby steps into bar dispute with plea for caution
Family division president says barristers must 'take the long view' to tackle the current crisis facing the justice system.
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NewsSolicitors affected by bar boycott must not be bullied, CBA chief warns
Angela Rafferty QC says tirades to solicitors' representatives heightens the tension during an already difficult time.
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NewsSolicitors mull support for bar action
Solicitors and practitioner groups are mulling how to back the criminal bar’s protest action against legal aid fee reforms. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) has advised its 4,000 members to adopt a ‘no returns’ policy from 25 May. It would start to take effect in courts after the late-May bank ...
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NewsAppointments commission not delivering on judicial diversity, Lammy blasts
Labour MP once again expresses regret that he did not recommend quotas in landmark review.
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NewsConduct code called for as private prosecutions rise
Spending cuts will fuel non-state prosecutions, new association hears.
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News'Rabbit in headlights' - judges' leaked verdict on unrepresented defendants
Government accused of a cover-up after report is disclosed to news website BuzzFeed.
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NewsRape cases at risk over suspected mishandling of forensic examinations
Metropolitan Police directorate of professional standards is investigating allegations.
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NewsMeaning of the Worboys affair
The John Worboys affair throws up more questions than it answers. Is the case being hijacked by moral entrepreneurs and used to have sentences for rape increased? And will it open the floodgates for what amount to appeals by victims against Parole Board decisions? How will these be funded? Legal ...
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OpinionBoard decision
If victims are to have reader access to challenge Parole Board decisions, offenders must too.
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NewsParole Board must become a fully fledged court, ex-chief declares
Professor Nick Hardwick says the public body must be separated from the Ministry of Justice.
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NewsSolicitor tells court: This place is too busy to shut
Cambridge lawyer makes impassioned speech after client told to wait another six months for trial. ‘Powers that be are nowhere to be seen,’ she says.
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News'Nothing to lose': Bar ponders no returns policy to escalate protest
About 100 chambers are already refusing new work and the bar’s mood is hardening as the Ministry of Justice stands firm.
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NewsSenior presiding judge issues guidance on bar boycott
Lady Justice Macur says there should be no suggestion the judiciary are 'anything other than neutral' in the dispute between the profession and the government.