Senior Metropolitan Police officers stopped an undercover officer from revealing to the Macpherson public inquiry that the force had spied on the family of Stephen Lawrence during the 1990s, according ...

The Home Office has announced plans to expand the use of facial recognition in police operations to tackle crime. A 10-week consultation period has been set to examine the views of the public to these ...

The National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) has confirmed that it is considering corporate manslaughter charges. The NPCC said that its primary and sole focus remains the offences of perjury and ...

Conditions at Feltham prison remain ‘insufficiently improved’ after an inspection by the prisons watchdog found high levels of violence against staff and one of the highest levels of drug use in any ...

The Post Office paid one law firm more than the entire cost of the public inquiry into the Horizon miscarriage of justice for four year’s of representation. As reported in Computer Weekly, which broke ...

A report that claimed racism was ‘baked into institutional design’ at the Metropolitan Police was never released by the force and has now been uncovered by the Guardian. Between May and June 2025 HR ...

The recent appointment of Dame Vera Baird KC as the new interim chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) hopefully marks the end of a prolonged period of chaos at the beleaguered ...

Cognitive bias in the justice system is ‘widespread’ and ‘hidden’, according to a new research paper which argues that it is more difficult to deal with than the ‘easy to detect’ intentional bias of a ...

In 1991, 19-year-old Oliver Campbell was convicted of murder and conspiracy to rob. He spent 12 years in prison. In 2025, his conviction was quashed, following new psychological evidence that revealed ...

Last month the legal charity APPEAL launched a groundbreaking report – Joint Enterprise on Trial. Dr Nisha Waller and Tehreem Sultan observed 17 murder and attempted murder trials at the Old Bailey — ...

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is set to receive a real-term 1.8% spending increase according to the latest spending review announced by the Chancellor on Wednesday. The funding boost includes money ...

A former Lord Chancellor has accused the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) of being responsible for delaying the quashing of the conviction of a man who has served 38 years in prison for murder ...