The possibility of introducing mandatory prison sentences for prolific shoplifters has been mooted by government ministers.
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Integrated offender management is a better way of dealing with shoplifters than prison.
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The evidence is clear: the age of criminal responsibility is far too young at present..
Access to justice has been diminished by swinging budget cuts in England and Wales.
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Seventy years after it was first launched, legal aid’s principles of equality are a shadow of what they once were.
The campaign continues.
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Police have to analyse over 31m documents, 2,500 pieces of evidence and 2,332 witness statements. This makes Grenfell the biggest and most complex corporate manslaughter case ever brought.
Sally Challen’s son David outside the Court of Appeal.
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Sally Challen, convicted of murdering her husband in 2010, will now face a retrial. A lawyer explains the legal significance of the ruling.
Fracking protestors Rich Loizou, Simon Blevins and Richard Roberts released from prison on October 17.
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The criminalisation of fracking protesters is not the exception, it has become the rule.
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From cannibalism to carbolic smoke balls, these are some of the fascinating cases that have made the law of England and Wales what it is today.
Philippa Kaufmann QC (left) and Harriet Wistrich (centre) acted for victims in the judicial review.
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As a result of the ruling, more detail of future Parole Board decisions should be available to victims.
Why isn’t there more public pressure to improve the state of British prisons?
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Without public pressure, politicians won’t make improving conditions in prisons a priority.
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A succession of leaders have failed to address problems in England and Wales.
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The UK’s family court system is at breaking point.
HM Prison Bedford, which was the scene of recent violent disturbances.
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Problems in the UK prison system go back decades, if not centuries.
Tributes left to Elizabeth Edwards and her daughter Katie, murdered in April 2016.
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Two teenagers have been sentenced to life for a double murder. But their crime is extremely rare.
Ched Evans (centre) after he was acquitted of raping a teenager in a retrial.
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Responses to rape have improved, and they must continue to do so.
A surge in violence led to six homicides in prison in 2015-16.
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One solution: free those remaining people imprisoned for their own protection.
Going to court? Who’s your true friend?
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Legal aid cuts have made people going to court turn for help elsewhere.
Relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq protest outside Sir John Chilcot’s press conference.
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Compared with other attempts to mend deep wounds after wars and conflicts, the Chilcot Report falls depressingly short.
The Birmingham Six, from left, top; Patrick Hill, Hugh Callaghan and John Walker. Bottom; Richard McIlkenny, Gerard Hunter and William Power.
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The Birmingham Six were released after spending 17 years in prison for crimes they did not commit – there’s still work to do to stop it happening again.
There could be a number of appeals by prisoners after a Supreme Court ruling on joint enterprise.
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Prosecutors will no longer be able to fall back on racist stereotypes of gang violence.
The scales of justice have been rebalanced.
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Law lords ruled that a controversial law which has led to hundreds of murder convictions has been misconstrued.