How pre-trial publicity threatens the administration of justice.
Will new restrictions on Judicial Review prevent campaigners from following in the footsteps of Lewisham and Gloucestershire NHS campaigners, in overturning hospital cuts and privatisations?
Proposals to cut legal aid and judicial review in Britain will make it harder for people fighting for their rights to challenge the government's cuts agenda, and will remove one of the few lifelines to justice for asylum seekers, refugees and undocumented workers, says Kate Blagojevic.
The latest move in the swift and radical marketisation of British justice: the government is privatising the enforcement of criminal fines. Critics say this will push more vulnerable people into the hands of rogue bailiffs.
What to do with a 100 kg guard who fatally restrains a 40 kg boy? Promote him to health & safety manager, G4S children's homes. Behind the corporate image at the company responsible for some of Britain's most vulnerable children. See also: Concealment and trickery - that's G4S children's homes
The world's biggest security company hides its identity in applications to convert houses into children's homes in England. See also: G4S guard fatally restrains 15 year old - gets promoted
G4S & Serco fraud inquiry: Five things the British public need to know about privatising criminal justice.
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The demonisation of the European Court of Human Rights over the long failure to deport Abu Qatada is likely to be intensified by the Court’s ruling against whole life tariffs. Neither case will get the human rights perspective that they deserve
• Inquest jury return unlawful killing verdict • Jimmy Mubenga died after 'restraint' by three G4S guards • G4S executives David Banks and Stephen Small gave flawed evidence to UK parliamentary committee about restraint techniques • Lately Stephen Small dismissed allegations about abuse of asylum
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.
