Crown courtrooms are standing idle despite record backlogs of cases forcing victims to wait up to six years for justice.

In Magomedov & Others v. Kuzovkov & Others,[1] the High Court handed down an interesting decision examining the conflict of foreign criminal law with the discretion of the Courts of England and Wales ...

Courts Minister vows to crackdown on ‘poor practices’ in a major victory for The Standard’s investigation into the secretive justice process ...

In one area renters have to fork out almost a third of their income - but renting in Devon is becoming more affordable, ...

The chief inspector of the watchdog which monitors the performance of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said its prosecutors are facing crown court caseloads in excess of 100 and some are even ...

Charlie Moloney is a freelance journalist who covers courts, inquests and tribunals ... the number of inquests lasting more than two years in England and Wales quadrupled from 378 in 2017 to 1,760 in ...

the criminal justice system of England and Wales is blocked and probably broken. Public debate focuses on whether the police will catch criminals and whether the courts will sentence them correctly.

Magistrates in England and Wales will be able to jail offenders for up to 12 months from November to stop cases clogging up crown courts. The plan was first tried by the former Conservative ...

Despite 5,448 people recorded as dying from drugs, experts warn official figures miss the true scale of the UK's synthetic opioid crisis.

But it is understood messages have now been sent to heads of legal operations at courts around England and Wales in a bid to stamp out the practice at individual courts. “HMCTS guidance makes it ...

It is now illegal to hand out anti-abortion leaflets outside clinics or obstruct any staff or patients. Similar rules are ...