The Legal Service Board will look at how regulators can better tackle serious and wilful misconduct in the legal services industry - including through the introduction of higher fines.
Every crown and magistrates' courts in England and Wales can now access the 'Common Platform' system, enabling more efficient information-sharing in criminal justice cases.
Police forces have been drug testing individuals arrested for domestic abuse offences as part of a pilot to establish perpetrator profiles and offender rehabilitation opportunities to protect victims.
Dartmoor National Park Authority has won an appeal against a High Court ruling which held that members of the public were not permitted to wild camp on the moor without the permission of the landowner.
The High Court has ruled in favour of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) against Robin Forster, the director of a company which took £57 million from 380 investors in an illegal care home investment scheme.