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A minimum term of 52 years in prison to be served by a man who murdered three girls was not “unduly lenient”, the attorney general announced on Friday. For that reason, Lord Hermer KC said he would not be inviting the Court of Appeal to consider increasing the sentences of indefinite detention passed last month

In a speech yesterday about the probation service, the justice secretary Shabana Mahmood spoke sarcastically about the “glittering government career” of Lord Grayling, who was Conservative justice secretary from September 2012 to May 2015.While there had been bright moments in the probation service’s past, she said on a visit to the London probation service headquarters,

Avoid litigation like the plague is always good advice, especially when the plague consists of moths. Otherwise, you may end up like William Woodward-Fisher, a champion rower turned property developer with an argument full of holes.It seemed a good idea in 2011 to buy a London townhouse for £10.4m, spending another £10m digging out the

A prosecutor who was herself prosecuted and imprisoned for fighting corruption and organised crime in Guatemala was awarded the Sir Henry Brooke Award 2025 in London last night by the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk charity.The award honours a legal practitioner or human rights defender who, through personal endeavour in the course of his or