18+ hour, 6+ min ago  (295+ words) The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has unveiled reforms to the homebuying and selling process aimed at cutting delays, reducing costs and stopping more transactions from falling through. The reforms also include digital property logbooks and sales packs,…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (476+ words) The Solicitor General has referred the sentence of Vickrum Digwa, who was convicted of murdering 18-year-old Henry Nowak, to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme. The Attorney General's Office said the Court of Appeal would now…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (228+ words) A solicitor and his law firm have been fined after the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found prolonged failures to comply with regulatory requirements and repeated non-engagement with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). At the relevant time, Habibur Choudhury was the firm's…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (519+ words) Seven High Court judges have been appointed as Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal after receiving the approval of King Charles III, the Lady Chief Justice has announced. Baroness Carr said she was "delighted" by the appointments, adding that each…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago  (819+ words) The Justice Committee has endorsed Lynne Berry CBE as the next chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission after questioning her about the decision to offer her an initial term of 18 months rather than the three years originally advertised. The cross-party…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (163+ words) The High Court has dismissed a judicial review challenge brought by litigation funder Innsworth Capital Limited over the distribution of a "200 million settlement in the long-running Mastercard collective action. In a judgment handed down on 10 June 2026, Lord Justice Males, with…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago  (352+ words) The UK's asylum system is approaching a critical point, with missing asylum seekers, unresolved backlogs and rising costs exposing deep-rooted failures, according to a new report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The cross-party committee warned that the Home Office…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago  (342+ words) The United Kingdom has called for stronger international cooperation to tackle organised crime, fraud, migrant smuggling and violence against women and girls during a major United Nations meeting in Vienna. Speaking at the Thirty-Fifth Session of the United Nations Commission…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (415+ words) A campaign calling for greater judicial accountability has attracted more than 227, 000 verified signatures on Change. org following controversy over sentencing in a rape case heard at Southampton Crown Court. The petition, launched by Judicial Accountability UK, focuses on the sentencing…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago  (309+ words) The Lord Chancellor, David Lammy, has rejected the Senior Salaries Review Body's (SSRB) recommendation for a 3. 8% judicial pay uplift, confirming instead that judges will receive a 3. 5% increase from April 2026. Setting out his decision in a written statement to Parliament, Lammy…...