Category: Judiciary

Labour retreats on rape courts pledge amid fears over shortage of lawyers

Election manifesto promise to set up specialist tribunals to deal with huge backlog of cases has been put on holdThe government has backed away from plans to set up dozens of specialist rape courts to deal with a huge backlog of...

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Labour goes slow on rape courts pledge amid fears over shortage of lawyers

Election manifesto promise to set up specialist tribunals to deal with huge backlog of cases has been put on holdThe government appears to have stalled on plans to set up dozens of specialist rape courts to deal with a huge...

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Another former supreme court judge signs letter to Sunak on Gaza catastrophe

Signatories to letter warning PM over genocide and arming of Israel in breach of international law exceed 750A fourth former supreme court justice has put his name to a letter warning Rishi Sunak that the UK is breaching...

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‘Heartless’ government fails to fill two key human rights watchdog roles

Campaigners say rape and trafficking victims have been betrayed by the Tories’ failure to appoint commissioners to defend them Government ministers have “heartlessly” betrayed rape and trafficking victims after...

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