Criminal

The Sentencing Council has suspended its guideline after the Lord Chancellor threatened to introduce blocking legislation, in an extraordinary political row over ‘two-tier’ justice.

The Crown Court backlog has risen 11% to an all-time high of more than 74,000 cases.

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has launched an information resource to help potential applicants and other members of the public

Neil Parpworth dissects the proposed new public order offences contained within the Crime & Policing Bill

The Law Commission has set out the case for radical reform of the criminal appeals process: is it enough? Jon Robins reports

The proposed review of the criminal appeals process is ‘seriously impressive and broad’, but is it enough? 

One in three criminal barristers are actively seeking to leave the Bar, according to Criminal Bar Association (CBA) research

Lawyers have been instructed to pursue legal action to secure a pardon for Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK

The rise of deepfake videos, deepfake porn and unsolicited sexual images (cyberflashing) is an alarming and increasingly prevalent problem. In this week’s NLJ, Jenni Dempster KC and Maleeka Bokhari, Red Lion Chambers, look into this abuse, the harm it causes and the legal protections that exist, notably the Online Safety Act 2023.

From deepfakes to cyberflashing, 2025 must be the year to eliminate the technology-facilitated abuse of women, write Jenni Dempster KC & Maleeka Bokhari