Your weekly update from the Law Society’s public affairs team on all the latest developments and debates in parliament and across Whitehall. This week: court backlog target will be missed, Mental ...

Documents show £6million of pre-made cells have had to be abandoned across low-security prisons due to the financial collapse of a contractor ...

the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said. The convicted criminals, who have been released from jail or are serving a community sentence, have been fitted with tags that can detect whether they have ...

The Ministry of Justice has apologised after a string of warnings from coroners about deaths in prison went unanswered, including after two at a troubled London jail. Concerns were officially ...

We asked the agencies responsible across the UK. In April 2017 ... In England and Wales, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) now conducts an annual count of prisoners. These are the best available ...

The government also plans to designate taking intimate images without consent and installing equipment to that end as new offences, with perpetrators facing up to two years in prison, the Ministry of ...

The British minister responsible for financial services and fighting corruption resigned on Tuesday after weeks of questions ...

The Ministry of Justice has apologised to Ms Bragg. As part of that parole process, public protection officers put together documents about the case. They included confidential and sensitive ...