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Ministers have vowed to give victims of sexual violence “the justice they deserve” as figures showed that growing numbers of sentences for such crimes in England…

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A lawyer fights to free Venezuelans imprisoned after a crackdown on political dissent.The number of political prisoners in Venezuela reached its highest point following protests against…

By getting her way and allowing police to consider disclosing the ethnicity and nationality of suspects charged in high-profile cases, Yvette Cooper has solved one enormous…

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

The court of appeal has quashed the conviction of a man who has spent 28 years in jail for a violent murder of which he has…

Roll up! Roll up! The Ghislaine Maxwell Rehabilitation Tour is coming to town. You may think Jeffrey Epstein’s associate and former girlfriend is now behind bars…

While Palestinians in Gaza die in ever-increasing numbers from starvation each day and a growing number of legal scholars, aid officials and politicians have begun describing…

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A likely by-product of the plans to make drastic changes to jury trials to help deal with the backlog in the criminal courts will be the…