Compared with other attempts to mend deep wounds after wars and conflicts, the Chilcot Report falls depressingly short.
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The Birmingham Six were released after spending 17 years in prison for crimes they did not commit – there’s still work to do to stop it happening again.
Prosecutors will no longer be able to fall back on racist stereotypes of gang violence.
Law lords ruled that a controversial law which has led to hundreds of murder convictions has been misconstrued.
It’s important to look beyond the same old gender sterotypes.
What are the arguments for and against the death penalty and do they stand up to examination?
Gove wants to shake things up but seems to appreciate that lawyers are at the end of their tether.
The Tories have had the Human Rights Act in their sights for some time – but now they’ve got a chance to do take it out, they could end up living a nightmare.
According to our expert, Plaid Cyrmu’s crime manifesto is window dressing with uncosted goods.
The government faced civil unrest almost as soon as it came to office. Then it decided to cause some disruption of its own.
Stephen Gough – widely known as the Naked Rambler – has lost his case at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which disagreed that his repeated convictions and jail terms violated his rights…
The legal concept of joint enterprise caused outrage in South Africa in 2012, when 270 miners were charged with the murder of 34 colleagues in a police shooting at Marikana. Their crime? Being in the crowd…
There is no arguing against the fact that the trial of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and others has been a disaster for British journalism, and has catastrophically worsened its reputation. But there remains…
When a person is rebuked by a judge twice in the space of half a year, the public could be excused for thinking ill of them. But when that person is the prime minister, it raises questions not only about…
Gerry Conlon, wrongly jailed for a 1975 IRA bombing in which he had no part, died on June 21 at the age of 60. The case of the Guildford Four remains one the most famous miscarriage of justice in Britain…
The principle that someone accused of an offence is “innocent until proven guilty” is a cornerstone of the criminal justice system in England and Wales. But a new idea of what constitutes “victimhood…
It was June 4 2014. That was the date the British public learned that, in spite of their relatively free media, the power of the state – as expressed by the executive and the judiciary – was poised to…
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