header-logo header-logo

Home Login E-newsletter About us

Criminal

Subscribe
Criminal justice features in King's Speech
Judges will have to impose whole life sentences for serious cases, such as murders involving sexual or sadistic conduct, under a Sentencing Bill included in this week’s King’s Speech
08 November 2023
Spent convictions reform
Certain custodial sentences will no longer need to be declared to potential employers and when applying for courses, insurance and housing as of last week under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022
01 November 2023
Unlawful detention? Premium Content
Jenni Dempster KC & Alex Benn examine the modern problems of unlawful detention & provide practitioners with some valuable guidance on navigating the system
27 October 2023 / Alex Benn / Jenni Dempster KC
The Goldman Case: True-life courtroom drama Premium Content
John Cooper KC trumpets a triumph of the big screen
27 October 2023 / John Cooper KC
NLJ this week: How to retrieve your unlawfully detained client
Practical advice on how to protect your client from unlawful detention, even on Friday afternoons, is the subject of an article by Red Lion Chambers’ barristers Jenni Dempster KC and Alex Benn, in this week’s NLJ
27 October 2023
Protecting vulnerable witnesses
MPs are to investigate the use of pre-recorded cross-examination
25 October 2023
Senior manager attribution: a new liability? Premium Content
Michelle de Kluyver, Nichola Peters & Harriet Territt discuss whether the Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Bill creates a new breed of corporate criminal liability in the UK
20 October 2023 / Michelle de Kluyver / Harriet Territt / Nichola Peters
Sentencing mothers & the rights of the child Premium Content
Rona Epstein & Hugh Williams report on the background & history of sentencing a parent of dependent children
20 October 2023 / Dr Hugh Williams / Rona Epstein
NLJ this week: Prisons & the political mistakes of yesteryear
Former JUSTICE director Roger Smith hunts out the serious points among the ‘tittle tattle’ of former prisons minister Rory Stewart’s heavily promoted book, in his NLJ column this week
20 October 2023
Overcrowding forces prison reform
The government will legislate to create a presumption that sentences of less than 12 months should be suspended, the Lord Chancellor, Alex Chalk has told MPs
18 October 2023
Show
10
Results
Results
10
Results

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Read All
Sponsored by
TheGazette LogoClick to know more
Penningtons Manches Cooper—Gary Walsh

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Gary Walsh

Marine finance partner strengthens Penningtons Manches Cooper's banking and finance practice

Anthony Collins—20 promotions

Anthony Collins—20 promotions

20 promotions mark major people investment at national law firm, Anthony Collins

Sidley—Elaine Whiteford

Sidley—Elaine Whiteford

Sidley adds competition litigator Elaine Whiteford in London

NEWS
Read All
Justice committee reiterates calls to ‘urgently prioritise’ legal aid
The cross-party Justice Select Committee has warned legal aid is now a ‘service in managed decline’ due to ministers’ ‘inadequate’ and ‘disappointing’ response to its concerns
No MI5 contempt action, rules High Court
It would not be in the public interest to bring contempt proceedings against MI5 for providing unreliable evidence about its policy of ‘neither confirming nor denying’ someone worked for the intelligence services, the High Court has held
New safeguards urged for AI use
The Civil Justice Council has recommended a practice direction (PD) be drawn up to advise lawyers on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in court documents
Sir Geoffrey retires as Master of the Rolls
Courts modernisation champion and technology enthusiast Sir Geoffrey Vos has retired after an extraordinary career
Pension tax changes ease probate pressures
Practitioners have welcomed two autumn budget reforms relating to inheritance tax on pensions
Copyright © 2026 LexisNexis
back-to-top-scroll