A national investigation has been launched into the use of restraints on pregnant prisoners during labour after reports of women giving birth while handcuffed. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO ...

Three individuals previously or currently linked to the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) have been arrested on ...

In response to the high rate of deaths in custody, the director at INQUEST, Deborah Coles, has previously called for ‘an end ...

The Overturn is produced and hosted by Marnie Duke. Executive producers are Jon Robins and Calum McRae. The series has been supported by The Future Justice Project, a charity set up by Glyn Maddocks ...

Controversial jury trial reforms are set to be debated by MPs on 10 March as the government presses ahead with the Courts and ...

A consortium of human rights groups has called for the ‘adversarial’ migrant age assessment body to be closed. Over 100 ...

The proposal comes amid growing concern about the number of deaths linked to domestic abuse that are recorded as suicides rather than investigated as possible crimes. As previously reported in The ...

Youth prisons are failing to meet legal requirements for education according to new Ministry of Justice data, with some boys in Feltham, Werrington and Wetherby prisons having half the amount of ...

A Guardian investigation has revealed a key prosecution expert witness was undergoing a professional investigation into his fitness to practice when he gave evidence at Lucy Letby’s trial.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced that refugees will no longer be able to claim permanent refugee status and instead will face status reviews every 30 months. The move has been described as ...

The guidance for the court document retention regime is contained in the crown court’s Record Retention and Disposition Schedule. It currently states that the recordings of crown court trials should ...

A fourteenth person jailed by corrupt and racist police officer, Derek Ridgewell, has had their case referred back to the Court of Appeal by the miscarriages of justice watchdog.