The latest effort to ease pressure on Britain’s overcrowded prisons has been issued with magistrates told to stop jailing convicted criminals for several weeks and postpone sentencing.
Prince Harry has lost a legal bid aimed at allowing him to pay the UK for additional police protection while in the country.
Judges have granted a convicted Albanian murderer who arrived illegally by boat in Britain permission to stay and pursue an asylum claim.
English criminal barristers have begun an indefinite strike over pay and conditions, at a time when a stricken criminal justice system is already facing crippling backlogs.
Grooming gang member Qurban Ali has become the latest predator to be released back onto the streets after serving only a small portion of his prison sentence.
MP Claudia Webbe has survived the prospect of facing an automatic recall petition after her sentence for harassing a women was reduced on appeal.
A judge has branded a migrant sex attacker who abused a teen girl in a public park a “blight” – but he will spend little time behind bars.
Five rape gang predators may have their “unduly lenient” sentences for the abuse of a girl in Keighley, West Yorkshire increased by the Court of Appeal.
Average British citizens are reportedly being fined thousands of pounds by closed-door courts over COVID-19 lockdown breaches.
A lawyer fined £500 ($660) by regulators after saying that “free speech is dying and Islamists and other Muslims are playing a central role” has won an appeal to the Bar Tribunals & Adjudication Service.
(AFP) — The ruler of Dubai abused his ex-wife on an extraordinary scale, a UK judge ruled on Thursday, ending a lengthy legal battle between the couple over their two children.
(AP) — British lawmaker Sir David Amess was “assassinated” while meeting constituents last year by a “fanatical, radicalised Islamist terrorist,” a court heard Monday as the accused killer went on trial.
LONDON (AP) – U.S. authorities launched a new battle on Wednesday to make Julian Assange face American justice, telling British judges that if they agree to extradite the WikiLeaks founder on espionage charges, he could serve any U.S. prison sentence he receives in his native Australia.
“Hundreds” of failed asylum seekers could see their deportation decisions reversed after a Vietnamese migrant won a case against the government’s decision to deny her refugee status after she was trafficked into the country for forced labour in a cannabis farm and as a prostitute.
Rapists belonging to one of Britain’s most notorious child grooming and rape gangs are still fighting their deportations to Pakistan using the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), claiming that their removal would breach their rights to a private and family life.
Raja Malik and Mohammed Nawaz escaped time in prison despite committing an anti-white racist assault against a council worker who confronted their group for littering.
(AFP) — A UK court on Thursday refused Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp the right to appeal a ruling that upheld claims in a newspaper article that he beat his ex-wife Amber Heard.
A takeaway worker who stalked and sexually assaulted a woman on the street at night was allowed to walk out of court a free man after his defence argued that he was “the sole earner” in his family and jailing him “would have a significant impact”.
Boris Johnson’s government is claiming that upcoming legislation will stop lawyers from blocking deportations by resorting to “meritless” judicial reviews of immigration tribunal decisions.
A woman who bit and racially abused white police officers while claiming to have a firearm because one of them said “all lives matter” has been spared from prison.
Three gang members have been given short sentences for participating in an “unprovoked” attack which saw a teenager hacked and stabbed with machetes and knives in the middle of a crowded McDonald’s in Northampton, England.
Two 15-year-olds accused of stabbing a policewoman in the stomach during a botched robbery have been remanded in youth custody and referred to Crown Court.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has admitted that “really very few” Islamists can be successfully rehabilitated, and says it’s time to emphasise “the custodial option” to protect the public.
A Somali migrant granted the right to stay in the United Kingdom despite 33 previous convictions has been imprisoned for drug dealing just weeks later.
Is Tommy Robinson a headstrong fool who thoroughly deserves the 13-month prison sentence handed him by a judge in slightly confused and murky circumstances last week?
