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Frances Gibb, Legal Editor Expert witnesses in family cases are to be named under the next stage of opening up the family courts to the media, although social workers' anonymity will be protected, ministers have announced. The...
THE father of a murdered Harry Potter actor has cautiously welcomed plans to increase the minimum term for knife murders from 15 to 25 years. Colin Knox, of Ingress Park, Greenhithe, whose son Rob Knox, 18, was knifed to death...
Independent | Nov 10, 2009 By Ben Padley Jack Straw’s decision to no longer force applicants for the judiciary to declare if they are Freemasons was today branded a “disgrace” by a Labour MP. Gordon Prentice (Pendle) said there...
Aims to complete the 'unfinished business' of making the second chamber more democratic The House of Lords reform draft bill is designed to progress what Jack Straw described over the summer as "the unfinished business" of...
Justice Secretary Jack Straw is to lose his power to veto the release of more than 400 prisoners it emerged yesterday - as he was criticised for refusing parole to Ronnie Biggs. Sir David Latham, chairman of the parole board,...
The sisters of Liverpool fan Michael Shields, who was sentenced in Bulgaria to ten years in jail for an attack on a barman, but was recently pardoned by his home country, have won a national award for their dedication to...
Cautions may reduce the burden on courts, police time and cost less money – but downgrading serious crime cannot be justified Criminal trials cost money, and money is what the government is trying hard not to spend. For one...
Ralph Waldo Emerson is familiar on this side of the Atlantic for the line "The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted the spoons." It is a thought that occurs when listening to senior politicians awarding...
Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said that courts in Surrey and Sussex provide a good example for their work in enforcing fines. Magistrates courts in Surrey and Sussex demand that offenders pay at least half their fine before...
Britain's prison system is being "brought to its knees", according to penal reform experts responding to a damning new report obtained by The Independent on Sunday. The soaring prison population, consistently high re-offending...
