Crime and Justice

Long time campaigner for whistleblowers and hacktivists, @auerfeld , argues that the fight against extradition of Julian Assange to Trump's America is the real cause célèbre

As Portuguese authorities prepare their case against the alleged Football Leaks "hacker" Rui Pinto, France discusses cutting a deal to help identify financial threats to the sport.

Campaigners warn that any use of targets for more teenage spies would be “gambling with children’s lives" while insiders allege police are being told to "Get more kids, get them younger".

Following confirmation that Julian Assange has been arrested - twice - today, Byline Times provides the background to his legal battles and asks which allegations will be prioritised.

Jon Robins on how even the intervention of an Appeal Court Judge has failed to help a family caught up in child sexual abuse conviction

Jon Robin’s second account of how the law of joint enterprise “exposes all that is wrong in our justice system”.

While the detective leading the inquiry into the television presenter's murder says the case will never be solved, Byline Times reveals a crucial clue the police missed.

Jon Robins from @JusticeGap with another fascinating case of injustice - this time around a law that presumes guilt for bystanders

Home Office Minister agrees to probe claim of recruitment targets for more child spies against 'County Lines' drug gangs

Ben Geen was caught red-handed - a serial killer, or so it seemed. In the third of his series The Justice Trap, Jon Robins shows how a misreading of statistics led to a life sentence

As another provider of probation services teeters on the brink of collapse, the Government remains committed to a role for the private sector in supervising offenders.

A Prevent "mentor" helping to deradicalise people through his extraordinary experience inside a murderous neo-Nazi group speaks to Byline Times.

How can the Government reduce the use of short prison sentences if judges lack confidence in community alternatives?

As serious allegations about Leave EU Official and Arron Banks continue to come out – the media and political class are complicit in a conspiracy of silence, says Otto English

Caroline Orr explains how Trump's campaign manager's apparently lenient prison sentence is only the first chapter of this saga

Two parents took their sick child to hospital. Within hours they were being questioned by police. Two days later, they were in court. Why?

In the first of a new series examining the failings of our criminal justice system, Jon Robins explores why this should matter to us all.

As a new campaign is launched calling for the Government to introduce non-means tested legal aid for families who lose relatives in a state-related death, a Government minister defends the status quo.

With the number of serious further offences by those on probation rising by over a third since the service was reformed in 2014 by Chris Grayling, the probation workers’ union asks: where is the political accountability for the failings?

Otto English argues that ‘an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind’ and that an advanced democracy like Britain should not seek to punish a naïve girl for the sins of those who groomed her.