Jurors have criticised “appalling systematic failures” at a prison as they cleared an officer over the death of a suicidal inmate. Joseph Travers, 55, was accused of breaching his duty
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A student accused of rape has received an apology from police and prosecutors after a review into his collapsed trial found that messages undermining the case against him had been
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Two Ireland and Ulster rugby players accused of rape boasted on WhatsApp about their sexual exploits, a court has been told. Stuart Olding, 24, and Paddy Jackson, 26, who deny
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Relatives want a sick man with severe learning disabilities to be allowed to “die naturally” even though specialists say he is not near the end of his life and should
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A woman in her late 60s who was “locked into the end stage” of multiple sclerosis died in late 2015 after a Court of Protection judge allowed medics to cease
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The Government is going to review all 1.6 million claims for a disability benefit after it decided not to contest a High Court ruling. Ministers previously said accepting the decision
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A new electronic monitoring scheme for supervising offenders has been condemned by MPs as a “catastrophic” waste of taxpayers’ money. In a scathing critique, the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC)
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The Director of Public Prosecutions has been criticised for suggesting people who believe they have been raped but stay silent during their ordeal may give the impression they have consented
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Motor neurone disease sufferer Noel Conway said the voices of the terminally ill “deserve to be heard” as he won the first stage of his Court of Appeal challenge to
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A Detective Constable has been sacked for looking up information on a domestic abuse victim for her partner’s friend who turned out to be a suspect in the case. Jessica
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