Practice Notes: Crime
CILEX: criminal legal aid not sustainable career
Criminal legal aid work is no longer a sustainable career path for legal executives, CILEX said
On parole: a victim-centred approach
Alec Samuels considers how the victim has become central to Parole Board considerations
Law Society welcomes removal of cap on judicial sitting days
The Law Society has welcomed news that there will be no cap on judicial sitting days for 2021-2022. President I. Stephanie Boyce said the previous cap cont
UK public wants same accountability for the military as citizens
A survey coinciding with the return of the Overseas Operations Bill to parliament shows the public are owhelmingly in favour of military accountability
An unjust justice system: The government needs to get real
Editor's note: Can substandard justice – whatever that looks like in practice – be justice at all?
Money laundering: SRA refers £200m of suspected criminal proceeds to NCA
The SRA made 26 SARs to the NCA between January and October 2020 and cryptocurrency could become an issue
‘Justice depends on government’: Peers publish damning report
The quality of justice is increasingly at risk and it’s the government’s fault, peers have concluded in a comprehensive report
Considerably more legal aid funding needed, say peers
MoJ must invest much more to legal aid 'to meet the reality of need', say peers
Justice backlog: MPs have little confidence in MoJ
The MoJ has lost its way – that’s the underlying message from a damning report from MPs
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