Warring neighbours have been warned away from resorting to the courts to sort out boundary disputes by the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal was considering a ‘protracted boundary more…

ANALYSIS. John Storer writes about the growing crisis enveloping  a controversial new contract to run court interpreter services. I live and work as a criminal defence lawyer in Boston, Lincolnshire, a more…

Next week marks the start of a potentially fascinating experiment that aims to shine some light on those under-exposed parts of the justice system. ‘Open Justice week’ is a Scottish more…

At 9.30am on Friday this week Christopher Tappin must report to Heathrow’s police station. Tappin (it was noted in this Saturday’s Times) makes ‘an improbable criminal’. Christopher Tappin is a more…

Ministers have promised a ‘major legal overhaul of the bailiff industry’ setting out ‘how ethical activity should be enshrined in law’. ‘Too many people have experienced intrusive, expensive and stressful more…

‘Society wants to know about prison life, an interesting place to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there.’ Frankie Owen, from The Little Book of Prison. You can read more…

The Prime Minister David Cameron launched his latest attack on the ‘compensation culture’ pledging to slash the £1,200 fee for lawyers on small personal injury claims. [Pic by Sehb Hundal]. more…

Judges this week retired to mull over whether a Twitter message threatening to blow up a snowbound airport ‘sky high’ was a ‘a menace to society’. Illustration by Sehb Hundal. more…

Michael Teague asks why UK penal policy is so influenced by the American experience. ‘Our Europe-leading imprisonment rate appears positively puny compared to the USA’s muscular embrace of mass incarceration. more…

Ministers have backed a ‘presumption of shared parenting’ between fathers and mothers following a relationship breakdown, flying in the face of the views of an independent review of family justice. more…

The demonization of young women was leading to a failure to secure more convictions of suspected rapists, according to Alison Saunders, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service in London. more…

Reforms of ‘no win, no fee’ will play into the hands of big business and media groups,  campaigners told peers as they debated the legal aid Bill in the House more…