All Government & politics articles – Page 44
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NewsMinister slams ‘anti-British’ lawyers for thwarting Rwanda plan
Comments by Andrea Jenkyns in letter to embattled home secretary 'deeply irresponsible', Law Society says.
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News'Hillsborough Law' on the agenda of new parliamentary group
Campaigners renew calls for statutory duty of candour as they continue to wait for Hillsborough report response.
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News'Resourcing' required to achieve 53,000 backlog target, DPP tells MPs
Justice committee hears that increase in judicial sitting days would result in fewer lawyers being available to prosecute cases.
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NewsGovernment breaching EU withdrawal terms, High Court hears
European Commission intervenes in case brought by citizens’ rights body.
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NewsImprove access to court judgments, MPs tell HMCTS
Reducing reliance on commercial legal publishers one of several justice committee recommendations on open justice.
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OpinionLawfare slips through parliamentary warfare
Despite many other calls on MPs’ time during the last week of the Truss government, opportunity was still found for a lawfare debate.
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NewsGovernment 'must prioritise' Mental Health Act reform
Latest NHS figures show black people were significantly more likely than white people to be detained under the legislation.
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NewsEarly advice pilot 'lost opportunity' to collect valuable data
Legal aid practitioners will be limited to providing three hours of social welfare advice.
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OpinionIt's that man again
Brandon Lewis's successor at Petty France is one, er, Dominic Raab. The portents are not good.
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NewsMoJ reveals full ministerial line-up
Department’s ministers include one solicitor and one barrister.
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News'Public interest' does not confer standing in JR, High Court rules
Mrs Justice Farbey says courts can interfere in decisions only if there has been an error of law.
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NewsComeback special
The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP is certainly not the first lord chancellor to get more than one wear out of his swearing-in robes.
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NewsDigital portal to be compulsory for financial remedy services
HM Courts & Tribunals Service says 80% of applications are already processed digitally.
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NewsRaab's return fuels legal aid funding fears
Ministry of Justice is due to publish full response to Bellamy review next month.
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NewsRaab in his own words
Raab was lord chancellor for the year to September 2022. He will face a familiar in-tray.
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NewsRaab back as Lewis sacked as lord chancellor
Victoria Prentis MP, called to the bar in 1995, is appointed attorney general.
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NewsCommon Platform strike causes court chaos
Manchester reportedly had only four courts sitting, dozens of prisoners were in custody and several cases were adjourned.
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News'Enablers' in spotlight as economic crime bill takes next step
All-party group calls for anyone assisting 'avoiders and evaders' to face the 'full force of the law'.
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NewsNew PM - and yet another new lord chancellor?
Brandon Lewis backed Liz Truss in the last Conservative party leadership contest.
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OpinionEmergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters
Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters | Adam Wagner