Richard Atkins QC has been elected as Chair of the Bar for 2019. Amanda Pinto QC and Grant Warnsby have been elected as Vice Chair of the Bar and Treasurer of the Bar respectively.

Labour will abolish the House of Lords if it wins the next general election, a spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed.

Energy suppliers provide customers with an essential service and have a duty of care towards all of their customers. No two customers are the same and some need more support than others, support that may not be provided through standard customer service practices.

Sajid Javid will today promise frontline police officers the "tools and back-up they need", in a bid to cool hostilities between the Government and force chiefs.

Leading Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has hit out at the Government’s controversial 100,000 annual migration target.

Richard Bennett from the College of Policing, said: “Public safety is crucial in officers’ decision making and in some circumstances it is appropriate to pursue suspects on mopeds. 

The Conservatives are too "joyless" and need to be more optimistic to win over sceptical voters, according to Ruth Davidson.

Dods People draws together a list of the last week's appointments in Westminster politics, all the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector.

MPs are to demand urgent answers from the Home Office after it emerged that a Commonwealth citizen caught up in the collapse of outsourcing giant Carillion now faces a “Kafka-esque” battle to stay in the country - despite his company wanting him to stay on.

Labour MP David Lammy has said that he is ‘appalled’ by the arrest of one of his constituents for a minor crime committed twenty years ago.

A former Labour general secretary seen as a hate figure by many on the left wing of the party has been given a peerage by Jeremy Corbyn.

The Bar Council has issued a response to the Bar Standards Board’s announcement yesterday of a new plan to tackle the unfair treatment of female barristers, and has highlighted the role that the Bar Council will need to play in informing steps taken by the BSB in this area.

Yesterday’s report from the Justice Select Committee highlighted concerns over plans to increase the small claims limit to £5,000 which, according to the Bar Council, could undermine access to justice for those injured in accidents.

Mental health is finally being given the significance and attention it rightly deserves. According to new Ipsos MORI research this month, concern about mental health has doubled in the last year alone; almost a third of the public are now concerned about it. And it’s seen as the second most important priority for health care funding.

Parts of the Metropolitan Police are still "institutionally racist" and young black people continue to be victimised by officers, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has said.

Please find below a response to the Hackitt review from the Equality and Human Right Commission

Councils across the country will be handed millions of pounds to replace flammable tower block cladding in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy, Theresa May announced today.

Many Windrush migrants who have been wrongly deported after getting caught up in an illegal immigration crackdown will now be “dead or destitute”, a prominent Labour MP has warned.

A shocking 63 British citizens from the Windrush generation may have been wrongfully deported from the UK, Sajid Javid revealed today.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has produced a briefing for the Third Reading of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill

The Bar Council of England and Wales and the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) have written jointly to Prime Minister Theresa May, urging her to voice concerns over Turkey’s ongoing and large-scale prosecution of judges, lawyers, journalists and human rights defenders with the Turkish President when the two meet on Tuesday. 

The head of MI5 has said sharing intelligence across Europe is more necessary than ever in order to tackle the growing threats of Islamist terrorism and Russian activity.

Crack cocaine has been found in a Home Office bathroom, sparking a police inquiry.

The Government could be forced to shell out hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation for illegally deporting rough sleepers from the EU, in a fresh blow for Theresa May.