Just 3% of rape allegations in London lead to a conviction, prompting the capital’s Victims’ Commissioner to urge drastic improvements in the way victims are treated. Claire Waxman’s call comes
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Hundreds of families are expected to benefit from a change in the law allowing them to take control of their missing loved ones’ financial affairs. Named after chef Claudia Lawrence
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Pride must be restored to overlooked towns, and investment targeted at people locked out of opportunity in order to heal a post-Brexit Britain, a charity has urged. The Joseph Rowntree
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A disabled man who says a High Court judge acted unlawfully when he gave medics permission to take him from home to hospital and authorised the use of force has
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The NHS faces having to pay out millions of pounds to junior doctors following a Court of Appeal ruling over rest breaks. In a test case of significance across the
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Victims of human traffickers face the risk of further exploitation after they have been rescued due to a lack of support in the UK, according to three charities which work
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A priest who sexually abused schoolboys at a Catholic seminary in the 1970s and 1980s in a “quite appalling way” has been jailed for 18 years. Father Michael Higginbottom (pictured)
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More than 200,000 secondary school children may have been groomed online, research suggests. A survey carried out on behalf of children’s charity the NSPCC found that around 4% of young
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Widespread calls for change to legal aid funding for inquests are being “ignored” by Government, campaigners have claimed. Cuts to legal aid funding in civil cases have made it harder
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Two Priory Group hospitals have been placed in special measures after they were found to have “unacceptable” standards. Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors reported fears over dirty wards and “uncaring
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