Rule of law

The Chancellor plans to cut 15% from the civil service budget in the next five years. How would this affect the courts and justice system? In this week’s NLJ, Mark Jones, partner, and Alex Curran, senior associate, Payne Hicks Beach, look at the potential impact from a range of perspectives if the Ministry of Justice budget is cut by 15%, including the criminal courts—where the backlog is so extreme that ‘at Snaresbrook Crown Court, trials for suspects on bail are currently being listed in November 2028’.

The Law Society and Bar Council have endorsed a Europe-wide statement of support for US lawyers targeted by President Donald Trump’s administration.

A prison sentence is devastating for mother & child, writes Rona Epstein

What is the point of a state adhering to the rule of law if it doesn’t talk about it? Roger Smith ponders a mysterious cancellation

What is the reason behind the cancellation of a speech this month by the attorney general, Lord Hermer? In this week’s column, Roger Smith, former director of JUSTICE, investigates a mysterious absence and delves into the grey area between politics and law.

Interpreting services in court are ‘unacceptable’, presenting a ‘significant risk’ to the administration of justice and placing an undue demand on an already overburdened court system, peers have declared.

A leading expert’s five decades of expertise in industrial and discrimination law was among the winners at the 2025 LexisNexis Legal Awards

A House of Lords committee has launched an inquiry into the rule of law, following ‘confusion’ and controversy about its meaning.

Law undergraduates across the UK are invited to take part in this year’s International Law Book Facility (ILBF) essay competition.

Recent attacks by MPs on the Attorney General, Lord Hermer on the basis of clients he once represented are ‘uninformed’ and concerning, John Gould, senior partner at Russell-Cooke, writes in this week’s NLJ.