The Government is on ‘high alert’ for a fresh surge in asylum seekers arriving here. It follows an announcement by the ...

Trials delayed until 2030, victims and defendants’ lives on hold, buildings without running water. Courts correspondent Tristan Kirk reports on a shameful decline ...

The UK’s justice system is transforming. Digital innovation and, increasingly, artificial intelligence, are reshaping how ...

Problems in the prisons and the courts are not new but they are growing and the government doesn't have a grip on them.

UK cybercrime victims are being failed by the justice system, with perpetrators hardly ever facing charges and convictions, according to a report by The Cyber Helpline, a charity supporting ...

Misleading. The Lady Chief Justice, Dame Sue Carr, is the head of the judiciary in England and Wales, not Mahmood, who leads the UK’s justice ministry and is the Lord Chancellor. Patel is the interim ...

The accidental release of a migrant sex offender from prison is a sign that the UK justice system is “broken”, a minister has said. Steve Reed called for the criminal justice system to be “rebuilt ...

On 2 June 2025, the Civil Justice Council, a statutory body charged with advising on reform of the civil justice system in England and Wales, published its final report to the UK government on ...

A survey has been launched to help inform a plan to reform the criminal justice system. Guernsey's Committee for Home Affairs ...

The BBC followed a series of shoplifting cases which highlight how shops have waited months for thieves to be brought to ...

A circuit judge at Northampton Crown Court has spoken of the importance of juries at the conclusion of a long-running murder ...