Browsing: Crime & Justice

Oligarchs whose business empire was under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office spied on lawyers who ran some of the UK’s most sensitive criminal cases.The Guardian…

Kevin Njoroge*, a worker on a flower farm in the Kenyan lakeside town of Naivasha, was making his way back home from his shift last month…

Restriction zones aimed at “locking” violent offenders – rather than their victims – into specific areas when they are released from prison are to be introduced…

At 81, Deborah Hinton, a former British magistrate who was honoured by the late Queen Elizabeth II for services to the community, seems an unlikely terrorist…

Handcuffed and being hauled into the back of a police van, Tim Crosland still managed to crack a smile after being arrested under the Terrorism Act…

While patrolling the Great Barrier Reef, Gary Singleton was struck by an eerie stillness. The Coral Sea lay flat as glass beneath a heavy, windless sky.…

Judges need to be “on their guard” about expert witness evidence, according to a leading supreme court judge, who urged the legal profession to improve their…

In one of my favourite Seinfeld episodes, George Costanza is sitting in a New York diner and – this shows how long ago it was –…

More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred during an attack on Sudan’s largest displacement camp in April, in what would be the second-biggest war crime…

A solicitor at one of Britain’s best known libel law firms is facing prosecution before a disciplinary tribunal over allegations that she made an inappropriate threat.The…