Asylum seekers who are fleeing sexual abuse are entirely dependent on the Home Office for support, accommodation and recovery ...

Post Office campaigner Sir Alan Bates yesterday told the BBC he had received no response despite writing to the Prime ...

Safety has collapsed at a Lancashire prison where prisoners are able to bring in drugs via drones through smashed windows.

There are concerns about the future of the miscarriage of justice watchdog in New Zealand only four years after it was set up following the model of our troubled Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC ...

New provisions have come into force to end Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences, described as the ‘single greatest stain on the criminal justice system’. Almost 2,000 people serving ...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, there were only a limited number of ways to mount an effective challenge to a conviction, especially once the Appeal Court had rejected any approach on traditional grounds ...

Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...