A debate the government did not want to happen. House of Commons resists Coalition attack on Legal Aid.
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.
Security company G4S and its executives have got rich dismantling public services.
Legal aid and Law Centres are under threat in the UK, along with the principle of equal access to justice. Geoffrey Bindman QC says it's time for the legal profession to dig into their pockets and help meet the gap in state funding. This week's Friday Essay.
Two years ago trained members of the public attending immigration bail hearings published their first report, "A Travesty of Justice". Today the Bail Observation Project reports again. Unfairness and lack of due process persist.
Serco shareholders gather in the City of London today to celebrate financial success. Just across the river, Britain's newest private prison HMP Thameside, run by Serco, is failing.
How we’ve managed to make protecting trafficking victims so complicated.
Alarming numbers of parents are being separated from their children indefinitely in the UK for the purposes of immigration control. It is difficult to imagine any other situation where children could have such scant attention paid to their welfare, says Sarah Campbell.
Cameron threatens to 'temporarily withdraw' from the European Convention on Human Rights in order to expedite a radical cleric's deportation. The worst kind of populist politics drives Britain towards international outlawry.
