A barrister considers how a slave would have fared under the British government’s proposed legal aid residence test.
Labour’s shadow Lord Chancellor Sadiq Khan spoke out strongly for universal human rights, the Human Rights Act and checks on government powers. Will his party colleagues, and possibly their potential allies after 2015, the Lib Dems, be as bold if they are in power?
• Justice minister making savage cuts lined his pockets from Parliamentary expenses • MPs grill Chris Grayling over plans to destroy Legal Aid • Grayling acknowledges 'ideological' motivation.
A debate the government did not want to happen. House of Commons resists Coalition attack on Legal Aid.
Can Nadhim Zahawi's proposal for an immigration amnesty work?
Looting and pillaging. Economic illiteracy. Craven cowardice. A response to the government's attack on legal aid.
On the government's reviled proposals for 'reform' of Legal Aid.
Privatisation of the probation service. A dangerous, dodgy scheme is rumbled in the House of Lords.
Steep rise in attacks on staff and prisoners at run-for-profit Winson Green prison.
This appalling case exposes an institutional bias against working class girls and an institutional bias against rape victims.
Ex-soldiers with PTSD use public art to claim a space in their community.
