Funding aimed at stopping children from committing crime or needing to be remanded in custody if they are accused of offences ...

UK Justice Minister Heidi Alexander has slammed American tech billionaire Elon Musk for his "unacceptable" comments about the riots gripping England and Northern Ireland. Mr Musk posted on his social ...

More than a decade of underfunding by successive governments has left the UK's justice system in crisis. There is now a significant backlog in cases and court dates are being canceled due to ...

Misleading. The Lady Chief Justice, Dame Sue Carr, is the head of the judiciary in England and Wales, not Mahmood, who leads the UK’s justice ministry and is the Lord Chancellor. Patel is the interim ...

The UK Government plans to give judges new powers to compel convicted criminals to attend their sentencing hearings, according to a post from Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Alex Chalk. This ...

UK cybercrime victims are being failed by the justice system, with perpetrators hardly ever facing charges and convictions, according to a report by The Cyber Helpline, a charity supporting ...

The UK justice ministry is set to implement a new in-house AI tool to record and transcribe conversations with offenders, reported the Law Society Gazette. A thousand probation officers will be ...

The UK justice ministry has announced government reforms to bolster support and strengthen the fairness of trials for victims of rape and serious sexual violence. The amendments seek to address rape ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s plan to use chemical castration for sex offenders aims to cut reoffending and free prison space. But is it ethical? Pixabay As UK prisons teeter on the brink of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The justice secretary has expressed “significant frustration” that the government’s plans to expand prison ...