The government has failed to take urgent action to address record crown court backlogs, with “devastating” consequences for victims and their families, according to an influential group of MPs.
The Scottish government will fail to capitalise on early progress to reduce criminal backlogs without additional funding and improvements to the workforce, the national watchdog has said.
Fraud seems “like an afterthought” in courts and policing when it comes to funding, leaving services unable to deal with the rising scale and complexity of cyber crime, a group of MPs has said.
Prisons in England and Wales are “full to bursting”, underfunded, understaffed and recent reforms have “failed miserably” to address problems with the service.
A senior judge has proposed to make it easier to take public bodies to judicial review by introducing optional limits on the amount of costs a claimant can incur.
The government must refund some £27m to people who have paid employment tribunal fees since 2013, after the Supreme Court unanimously held these to be unlawful.
Opposition MPs have criticised the government for spending £1.2m on legal fees in its battle to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty without a vote in Parliament, official documents have...
The practice of requiring prospective employees to disclose criminal records in the initial stage of public sector job applications could soon end, the government has indicated.
The government has ended a £23.2m electronic tagging contract for offenders after concluding that the proposed development of bespoke technology would have “significant problems”.
