In the latest spat between the US president and the BBC, Donald Trump has hit back at suggestions that he is dragging his heels over arrangements to record oral evidence for his $10 billion defamation claim against the broadcaster. As
The Ministry of Justice has announced details of penalties that may be imposed on convicted defendants in England and Wales who refuse to attend court for sentencing. The powers are included in legislation presented to parliament in the spring of
The idea that we should resurrect the judicial role of the House of Lords — which ended in 2009 — is not only impractical but would be against our national interests, the UK’s most senior judge said in a lecture
Solicitors’ and barristers’ representatives have expressed concern at plans to increase the fees that lawyers have to pay the legal ombudsman — known as LeO — if complaints against them are upheld. Unless providers of legal services had taken all
Donald Trump has been threatened with sanctions by a court in Florida for failure to comply with a judge’s order. The ruling came a week after Trump’s administration imposed sanctions on a court in The Hague.An order made on Friday
Gertrude Tuckwell set the wheels in motion for the diverse, modern magistracy from which our society benefits today, the lady chief justice said this week. Baroness Carr was speaking at the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate the first woman
The entire civil and administrative justice system needs to be integrated and reformed, according to a paper published by the Nuffield Foundation this morning. All eight frontline regulators and their oversight regulator should be replaced with a single independent regulator
The government has explained why it has rejected some of the key recommendations made by Lord Leveson of Liverpool in his independent review of the criminal courts. Part 1 of Leveson’s report was published 15 months ago and part 2
After failing to meet a series of court deadlines, the defence secretary Wes Streeting has been ordered to pay legal costs on an indemnity basis1 — the highest possible level — incurred by Afghans seeking relocation to the UK.
More details have emerged about a case which led the Metropolitan Police commissioner to complain that pressure to reduce the remand population had contributed to dangerous and prolific offenders being granted bail. A circuit judge who was asked to withdraw
