Victims of miscarriages of justice will no longer lose access to means-tested benefits if they receive financial compensation ...

However, punishment for being homeless, using Anti-Social Behaviour Injunctions (ASBI) is set to continue and to be widened with new Respect Orders introduced in the Crime and Policing Bill.

A senior judge has ordered high street banks including Barclays, Nat West and Lloyds to release information on secret ...

The miscarriage of justice watchdog has referred the murder convictions of two men eight years after it first received their ...

The Post Office Horizon scandal, which led to the most widespread miscarriage of justice in human history, caused 13 people ...

In choosing to foreground workload concerns over correcting wrongful convictions, the CBA risks legitimising a system that ...

Keir Starmer made a personal commitment yesterday to review the scandal of the lack of compensation and care for the victims ...

Joint enterprise – also known as secondary liability or complicity – has long been a contested area of criminal law in ...

Charlie Taylor claimed that the police and prison service had effectively ‘ceded the airspace’ above two high security prisons to organised crime gangs delivering contraband by drones. He argued that ...

The House of Commons voted to create statutory immunity from prosecution for women who terminate their pregnancies, fundamentally altering the criminal law framework that has governed abortion in ...

Prisoners maintaining their innocence face ‘insurmountable obstacles’ trying to clear their names and had ‘lost faith’ in the justice system, according to a new study published today. The report makes ...

A national audit into ‘group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse’, commonly referred to as ‘grooming gangs,’ has found victims were blamed, disbelieved, or dismissed by the very authorities ...