A High Court judge says a Government office which provides help to vulnerable people embroiled in litigation should consider offering an out-of-hours service. Mrs Justice Theis oversees hearings in the
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The Government is facing calls to create protest-free “safe zones” outside all abortion clinics after the Court of Appeal rejected a challenge against the first in the UK. Three leading
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Families are spending months in “cramped and unsafe” conditions by living inside converted shipping containers used as temporary accommodation for the homeless. Ealing Council constructed a number of the “heavily
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A probation service which supervises almost 29,000 offenders must improve, according to inspectors who found that work relating to keeping people safe “needs to be much better”. HM Inspectorate of
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A “doctor” who managed a “chaotic” psychiatric care home before a teenager killed herself has admitted failing to give evidence to her inquest, in what is said to be a
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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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Children will not be sent to a high-profile young offender institution after the country’s most senior prisons inspector demanded the Government take immediate action over an “extraordinary” plunge in safety.
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A judge has decided against ruling that a woman with learning difficulties is no longer able to consent to making love with her husband of more than 25 years. Mr
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A woman has been found guilty of injecting a healthy four-year-old girl with insulin, leaving her brain damaged and severely disabled, prosecutors said. Chantell Graham was convicted of giving the
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Campaigners involved in a “peaceful and lawful vigil” have told Court of Appeal judges that a 100-metre “buffer zone” outside an abortion clinic infringes their right to protest. Ealing Council
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