All Criminal justice articles – Page 95
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OpinionBrexit: disengaging on criminal law
Far less cooperation with the EU in criminal matters is likely to be one consequence of Brexit. This is not in our national interest.
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NewsTrain youth justice lawyers and pay them more – landmark report
Quality of legal representation in Youth Court often ‘very poor’, says government-commissioned report, partly because criminal lawyers appearing there are badly paid.
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OpinionMladic genocide and war crimes trial close to conclusion
Arguments in the trial of former Bosnian-Serb general Ratko Mladić for ‘crimes against humanity’ bring the historic process close to the end of an era.
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NewsGreater protection against ‘stranger stalking’
Home Office says new civil order should not replace criminal prosecutions when they are possible.
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NewsMoJ proposes tougher sentences for dangerous drivers
Justice minister Sam Gyimah says there is public concern about punishments despite bespoke training for specialist prosecutors.
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NewsGuilty: Bradford solicitors convicted of legal aid fraud
Three set up sham company to claim inflated disbursements from Legal Aid Agency.
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NewsConviction ‘safe’ despite Crown disclosure failure – appeal court
Court of Appeal rules information received by the police from confidential sources should have been disclosed – but failure was not in bad faith.
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Opinion
Police station custody: sounding the alarm
By locking solicitors in with their clients, the police are placing financial considerations above the welfare of professionals.
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NewsInterpreter CEO bullish over performance target
Larry Gould told the Gazette that thebigword, which has recruited 4,300 linguists to help provide language services to the Ministry of Justice, will invest heavily.
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Greater public awareness drives rise in sexual offences prosecutions
Ministry of Justice says more people are being sentenced and for longer.
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NewsFury over Gove’s call for practice curbs on ‘second-class’ solicitor-advocates
Solicitors have reacted angrily to an 'ill-judged, ill-informed and incorrect' attack on solicitor-advocates by Michael Gove. Speaking last night, the former lord chancellor called for restrictions on the rights of audience of solicitor-advocates in order to ‘restore the criminal bar to health’. Claiming barristers provide a ‘better service’, he suggested ...
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NewsCleared solicitor can take malicious prosecution case to trial
Phillip Rudall alleges the Crown Prosecution Service and South Wales Police mounted a campaign against him
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NewsMoJ extends jury service to over-70s
Justice minister Sir Oliver Heald QC says people are living longer, healthier lives.
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NewsSolicitor ‘gave veneer of respectability’ to £2.8m fraud
Leeds practitioner Stephen Pickard jailed for eight years.
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OpinionYoung adults top bad league
Treating young offenders as mere numbers will fail them and undermine prison reform.
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News‘Viewing centres’ to preserve open justice in online age
‘Justice must not disappear down an Alice-style rabbit hole,’ says senior presiding judge.
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NewsDigital courts’ success will win over sceptics, says senior judge
Senior presiding judge Lord Justice Fulford says methods already used in the criminal courts will soon be replicated in civil, family and tribunal buildings.
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NewsSolicitors ‘will fight tooth and nail’ to resist another legal aid fee cut
Criminal Law Solicitors’ Association Zoe Gascoyne tells conference that firms’ overheads are stripped to the bone.
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NewsSRA yet to receive reports of solicitor touts
Regulator has announced it is stepping up efforts to tackle the problem.
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DPP warning over post-Brexit criminal justice cooperation
Alison Saunders praises benefits of European arrest warrant to House of Lords select committee.