Three children should be taken from the care of a woman who is facing jail after admitting conspiring to supply around £800,000 worth of amphetamines, a family court judge has
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Older prisoners are being “set up to fail” after they are released, campaigners say. They face a lack of adequate provision to meet their health and social care needs, it
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A mentally-disabled agoraphobic can be sedated and taken from the home she has not left for many years so doctors can perform an eye operation, a judge has ruled after
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A specialist judge has expressed concern about the way an elderly woman living in a care home was “covertly” given medication. Judge Peter Bellamy said the use of covert medication
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A mother and her civil partner have been jailed for life for murdering her toddler son after subjecting him to more than two years of abuse and neglect. Defenceless two-year-old
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Nine men have been jailed after a teenager in local authority care was subjected to a “horrifying” catalogue of sexual abuse, some of which was streamed live on the internet.
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The delay in rolling out new measures to ease the distress of vulnerable witnesses giving evidence is “wrong”, a justice minister has admitted. A six-month pilot allowing the most vulnerable
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Findings and recommendations released in a new report by University of Stirling criminologists, Professor Gill McIvor and Dr Hannah Graham, indicate support among criminal justice practitioners for key changes to
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A 29-year-old unemployed man who wanted to care for his baby son has lost a family court fight after a judge raised concerns about his lifestyle. Recorder Carly Henley said
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A family court judge’s ruling relating to the murder of six-year-old Ellie Butler will make “front page news” if it is published – another judge has forecast. The ruling was
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