Crime and Justice

Jon Robins explores the state of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and the dwindling number of potential miscarriages of justice being referred to the Court of Appeal.

Byline Times' court reporter James Doleman documents a bizarre run of cases on his return to the press gallery after a hiatus from the courts.

Nicola Driscoll-Davies on new developments in the investigation of the murder of Malta's most prominent journalist.

Byline Times' court reporter James Doleman gives his personal take on the jailing of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and his conviction for contempt of court.

The injustice of how our justice system deals with its own errors was a key theme at the launch of Proof magazine this week.

Experts across the board fear a Trump-style Boris Johnson Government would be a threat to the criminal justice system.

Nazir Afzal highlights why Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's conviction for interfering with a child sexual abuse trial in Leeds in 2018 goes to the heart of justice itself.

Nicola Driscoll-Davies gathers reactions to the attempt by a government spokesman to deny the political motives behind the murder of Malta's most famous journalist.

Jon Robins spends a day at a court in east London where a number of tenants about to be evicted – who should be provided with legal aid – are relying on a duty lawyer.

Jon Robins on why the failure of key evidence to be disclosed in criminal trials in recent years has long been an issue leading to miscarriages of justice.

The judge who led the Public Inquiry into Press ethics has revealed he ‘knew’ some national newspaper editors were lying to him under oath about phone hacking, Byline Times can report today.

A case has been brought to challenge the Home Office's policy of giving migrants just 72 hours' notice of potential deportation.

Chris Grayling's 2013 cuts slashed the legal aid budget by a third – £751 million. Jon Robins examines the toll this is taking on people's everyday lives.

A report by the Charity Commission will single out Oxfam's failures on sexual exploitation, while brushing aside the much bigger scale of the problem.

With the former SNP MP sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzlement, court reporter James Doleman ponders the utility of incarceration for non-violent crimes.

Names of at least seven middle-managers found in a sample of 2% of private investigator invoices but the company’s lawyers say stories also came from public domain sources.

Jon Robins sets out how the erosion of 'access to justice' for huge swathes of social welfare law is having a very real impact on poverty in the UK

A new report by Pieter Omtzigt urges the Maltese Government to set up an independent public inquiry into Daphne Caruana Galizia's death immediately.