6+ hour, 25+ min ago  (580+ words) Across the UK, increasing numbers of people are navigating the legal system without representation and facing court on their own." Years of pressure on legal aid provision, combined with rising demand for advice services, have left many individuals facing some…...

2+ hour, 16+ min ago  (286+ words) A recorder has been formally warned after a comment he made to jurors following the acquittal of a defendant was found to amount to misconduct." The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) said a juror complained about remarks Recorder Donald Tait…...

6+ hour, 10+ min ago  (510+ words) Lord chancellor David Lammy made his first public admission that he may lose his job with the change in prime ministers with a light-hearted remark at the lady mayor's judges' dinner at Mansion House last night." In his speech, the…...

5+ hour, 26+ min ago  (326+ words) The Criminal Cases Review Commission is not a "failing" organisation, inspectors today declared - despite giving the miscarriage of justice body 34 recommendations to improve. Interim CCRC chair Dame Vera Baird asked HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate last year to conduct an…...

7+ hour, 35+ min ago  (564+ words) A law firm partner who made antisemitic remarks and inappropriately touched junior female colleagues has been suspended for a year." The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ruled that public confidence in the profession demanded that Ryan Sean Jack Williams, admitted in 2013, be…...

7+ hour, 25+ min ago  (562+ words) A law firm partner who made antisemitic remarks and inappropriately touched junior female colleagues has been suspended for a year." The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ruled that public confidence in the profession demanded that Ryan Sean Jack Williams, admitted in 2013, be…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (203+ words) Lord Justice Popplewell, with whom the other members of the Court of Appeal agreed, gave judgment. In relation to battery, everybody was protected not only against physical injury but against any form of physical molestation. The essential ingredients of battery…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (169+ words) The Ministry of Justice is to work with government and third-sector partners to look into opportunities for private investment and philanthropy to help the criminal justice sector. The announcement was made by the Sheriff of London this week at the…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (398+ words) Who? Alice Goodenough, partner at Goodenough Ring Solicitors, London." Why is she in the news? Represents campaigner Peter Barclay, chair of the Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign, whose bid to challenge the expansion of Gatwick Airport was dismissed by the High…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (274+ words) International firm Addleshaw Goddard will bolster its staff bonus pot by another "3m after a year of double-digit profit growth. The firm revealed today that its distributable profit in the year to 30 April increased by 17% to "262m, on revenues rising by the…...