The Government’s approach is unlikely to bring out the best from those upon whom it depends to get things done.
After a stumbling start, the Government is heading in the right direction on human rights reform. But there remains much to do.
For lots of women, their ‘insecure’ immigration status means their abuser can deport them, should they blow the whistle.
The first in a mini-series of articles on ConservativeHome this week about prisons, policy and reform.
The Chancellor will have have more money to play with than was forecast. How he uses these additional resources will tell us a great deal about his priorities.
Some £18 billion a year is incurred as a cost to the taxpayer as a result of reoffending.
It seems they are more interested in gender identity than the concerns that have been raised in women’s prisons.
The court’s verdict should encourage Johnson to stop the practice of public bodies pledging allegiance to Stonewall.
The family courts’ approach to domestic abuse remains much the same as twenty years ago, and the system is stacked against survivors.
A contest exists between traditional common lawyers, who believe the constitution exists (in their minds), and modernisers including myself.
The Lord Chancellor post could be returned to the Lords – and once again become both a senior judge and a Cabinet member at once.
An interesting mental exercise is to identify an institution that expands through failure. I can only come up with one – prisons.
Research has found that offenders visited in prison by their family were less likely to reoffend within a year of release than those who were not.
The Justice Secretary is challenged over Boris Johnson’s proposal to override elements of the Withdrawal Agreement to protect the British internal market.
Today’s announcement will bring total taxpayer funding for criminal defence to £1.2 billion a year, the largest amount for a decade.