News
How much legal aid goes to prisoners?
About £525 per claim from a total 43,780 claims, according to Full Fact.
News
Legal aid cuts risk miscarriages of justice
The Guardian has spoken to former defendants, families and lawyers about the risk of widespread miscarriages of justice if the government's legal aid cuts go...
News
Grayling change of heart on legal representation
Justice Minister Chris Grayling has backed down on plans to restrict legal aid to a small number of hand-picked firms, according to The Daily Telegraph...
News
Truck off
Hundreds of lawyers demonstrated in front of the Parliament over government reforms to legal aid.
The Guardian reported that haulage firm, Eddie Stobart, has...
Publication
UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 1
The first in an annual series by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, supported by the Hadley Trust, tracking year-on-year developments in criminal justice and social welfare across the UK...
Publication
UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 2
The second in an annual series by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, supported by the Hadley Trust, tracking year-on-year developments in criminal justice and social welfare across the UK...
Publication
UK Justice Policy Review: a new resource about criminal justice in the UK
With an online archive of over a hundred documents and featuring over a thousand individual data entries, Helen Mills introduces a new project from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Comment
Prisons: cheaper, not smaller
Politicians' speeches can be disappointing affairs. Eye-catching initiatives are trailed in advance and major announcements promised. In delivery they can savour of anticlimax, offering little...
News
The forward march of prison privatisation slowed
The next steps in the privatisation of prisons in England and Wales were announced today by the Ministry of Justice.
Competition to run four prisons will go forward to the next stage....
Comment
Police the big winners from the spending review
Following today’s spending review many questions remain unanswered. How will the probation service...