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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.

One single regulator for all legal services, regulation of all paralegals and a duty on regulators to ‘creatively’ tackle access to justice barriers are among a raft of proposals being considered by the Legal Services Board (LSB).

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

The nine-year reform programme to modernise and digitalise the courts has ended.

Local authorities are increasingly using ‘deprivation of liberty’ orders to house troubled children in unregistered accommodation often many miles from home, the Law Society has warned.

Entries are now open for the National Paralegal Awards, hosted by CILEX, the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.

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

The legal sector has missed out on direct investment in Chancellor, Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement

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.

An innovative law library and a scheme to match pro bono lawyers with experts both feature in this week’s NLJ, in a charity and pro bono double-bill. First up, Team Courtney explain how Courtney Legal works and how it can benefit early-career lawyers as well as members of the public.

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