Browsing: Crime & Justice

Only a tiny minority of criminal cases in England and Wales are decided by a jury – as few as 1%, once guilty pleas and judge-directed…

Emergency responders rescued 27 workers who were trapped in an industrial tunnel that collapsed in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Russia has committed flagrant and unprecedented abuses of human rights since it invaded Ukraine in 2014, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour, the European…

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The US Department of Justice said on Wednesday it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to clinics and doctors who offer gender-affirming care to minors.It was…

The volume of drugs being delivered by drones into prisons is severely undermining hopes of rehabilitation among inmates, a watchdog has warned.Criminal gangs are smuggling contraband…

Areas that experienced flooding Source: Flooding data via Floodbase Note: Map shows areas with any level of estimated flooding. Localized flooding may be underrepresented. In the…

Duncan Campbell on the power of protestFrom the suffragettes at the start of the last century to Reclaim the Night in the 1970s; from the battle…

A decade on from China’s biggest crackdown on human rights lawyers in modern history, lawyers and activists say that the Chinese Communist party’s control over the…

More than 23 million people believe they could be due compensation for a mis-sold car loan, according to a poll before this month’s supreme court decision.Borrowers,…