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Lack of work at Rotherham and Motherwell sites highlights financial crisis at UK’s third-biggest steel producerLiberty Steel has produced nothing at two of its key UK plants since July, in a sign of the deep financial difficulties for Britain’s third-b…
VULNERABLE drug charge teen Bella Culley is “not far from childhood”, her new lawyer said today on Wednesday after visiting her in a grim Georgian jail.
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Case came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term ‘open-air recreation’ included campingWild camping will be allowed on Dartmoor after the supreme court ruled that a multimillionaire landowner was wrong to ban it on his land.Dartmoor…
Good character references from friends and families of accused rapists had previously been a consideration in a judge’s sentencing decisionAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe consid…
Proportion of cases lasting more than a year up 17-fold in seven years, National Audit Office saysThe proportion of children in England and Wales subject to care proceedings who are having to wait more than a year to have their case resolved has increa…
Sentencing review to be published on Thursday aims to ‘ease prison capacity crisis’ and reduce reoffendingJudges and magistrates in England and Wales will be told to move away from handing out short custodial sentences in favour of community-based alte…
World’s maritime lawyers meet in Tokyo to try and fill dangerous gaps in patchwork of legal systems
Sixty-two operators claim drastic cuts to commission rates caused franchise owners to run up huge personal debts Talks to settle a £120m legal claim between Vodafone and more than 60 of the mobile phone group’s franchise operators have ended without re…
High court reduces far-right activist’s contempt of court sentence by four monthsTommy Robinson is due to be released from prison within days after his 18-month sentence for contempt of court was cut by four months.The high court reduced the sentence f…
Court says officer compounded problems by steering the wrong way in moments before casualty