On 9 July 2025, part 1 of the Independent Review of the Criminal Courts, chaired by Sir Brian Leveson was published (the Report). Leveson was tasked by the UK Ministry of Justice with conducting a ...

London, England / Syndication Cloud / March 2, 2026 / Bark & Co Solicitors Key Takeaways Everyone arrested in the ...

Research led by the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University, raises serious concerns about bias in the UK criminal justice system due to negative stereotyping of ...

Victims facing ‘inhumane’ delays for justice as criminal cases take four years to go to trial - Shocking court backlog means ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the president of the Law Society of England and Wales The shocking backlogs in the criminal ...

A recent change to a single clause in a UK criminal justice law will soon allow police or the National Crime Agency to run facial recognition searches on a database of 50 million driver's license ...

There is an “inconsistent” and at times “inadequate” criminal justice system response to child criminal exploitation in ...

Call for contributions: digitising justice – how can technology support access to justice?

People who speak with accents perceived as ‘working-class’ including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as more likely to have committed a crime, and becoming ...