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Ukrainian Refugees At Risk Of Homelessness Rise Almost 40 Per Cent In Single Month

02 Dec Foreign affairs

Over 800 Ukrainian refugee households have been left at risk of homelessness in the last month, despite repeated warnings to ministers to address housing issues faced by those wishing to settle in the UK.

02 Dec Home affairs

All The MPs Standing Down At The Next General Election

02 Dec Home affairs

Labour Win Chester By-Election With Significantly Increased Majority

30 Nov Home affairs

Home Office Accused Of "Toxic and Indifferent" Approach To Safeguarding Asylum Seekers

29 Nov Home affairs

Thousands of Homes for Ukraine Hosts Urge Rishi Sunak To Increase Refugee Support

28 Nov Home affairs

Home Office Accused Of Creating "Preventable" Health Risk After Asylum Centre Diphtheria Outbreak

24 Nov Home affairs

UK Migration Hits Record High, Energy Price Cap Rises, Boris Johnson Doubts Number 10 Comeback

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30 Nov Home affairs

Our immigration system is failing on nearly every front

29 Nov Communities

Homes for Ukraine scheme risks falling at the final hurdle

27 Nov Culture

Changing of the Lord: How Lord Carrington became the new Lord Great Chamberlain

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02 Dec Home affairs

All The MPs Standing Down At The Next General Election

With the next general election less than two years away, sitting MPs are having to decide whether they want to put themselves forward again to stand for another term.

25 Nov Health

How a public inquiry into contaminated blood exposed decades of denial

Earlier this month, one of the most extraordinary public inquiries in United Kingdom history held its final public evidence session.

03 Nov Health

If the Asylum System is broken, who broke it?

"The Home Secretary stated that the United Kingdom’s immigration system is broken. The Conservatives have been in government for 12 years. She does not appear to realise that this is an admission of Conservative failure."

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13 Jan 2016 Home affairs

SRA welcomes CMA study into legal services

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has welcomed the announcement by the Competition and Markets Authority that the CMA will launch a market study into legal services.

Law Commission: Fitness-to-plead rules ‘out of date’

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13 Jan 2016 Home affairs

Law Commission: Fitness-to-plead rules ‘out of date’

New tests should be implemented to determine whether a defendant facing criminal charges is mentally fit to stand trial, according to the Law Commission.

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12 Jan 2016 Home affairs

Law Commission calls for a modern approach to unfitness to plead

A new test is needed to establish who is unfit to plead according to the Law Commission.

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07 Jan 2016 Home affairs

Police and Fire Services 'different', says Police Federation - we must not change status quo just to cut costs

PFEW Chair urges caution over 'radical transformation' of how police, fire and rescue services would co-operate, following Home Office announcement that it is taking control of fire and rescue policy in England.

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04 Jan 2016 Home affairs

Research projects to inform the work of the SRA

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has set out its research programme for 2016, and has put protecting the public interest at its heart.

24 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Gerald Howarth MP: Britain’s Christian heritage ‘under threat’

The Prime Minister describing Britain as a Christian country is to be welcomed, says Conservative MP Gerald Howarth, but a “divisive clash” is being created between Christian and new-found ‘British’ values.

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21 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Law Society response to government announcement on court fee increases

Law Societywelcome the decision to keep the maximum fee cap in money claims at 10,000

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17 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Limited increase of police force budgets dependent on increase of council precept

Police Federation responds to Police Grant Report 2016/17

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16 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Outdated marriage law in need of reform

The law that governs how and where couples in England and Wales can marry is badly in need of reform, according to the Law Commission.

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16 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Crime still doesn't pay for many at the Bar

Chairman of the Bar, Alistair MacDonald QC has responded to a report published today by the Ministry of Justiceon the fees paid to junior barristers for Crown Court defence legal aid work under the Advocates Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS).

16 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Toughen up the law on corporate crime

Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne North and Shadow Attorney General, Catherine McKinnell, calls on the Government to strengthen the law on corporate liability in the wake of the phone hacking scandal

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15 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Clearing up the law on firearms

In a report published today, the Law Commission makes a number of recommendations to solve pressing problems that undermine the effectiveness of the law governing the acquisition and possession of firearms.

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15 Dec 2015 Home affairs

PFEW responds to HMIC report on domestic abuse

More training and support is needed to ensure that officers can deal with domestic abuse cases in the most appropriate and sensitive ways, says the Police Federation of England and Wales.

Regulator launches plans for standardised solicitors test

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15 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Regulator launches plans for standardised solicitors test

The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s Director of Education and Training, Julia Brannan, tells PoliticsHome why the absence of a common bar for solicitors in the UK is harming the industry.

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14 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Thousands have their say on solicitors' standards

More than 4,000 people have already had their say in a national campaign looking at what should happen when solicitors fall short of expected standards.

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13 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Direct Entry at inspector rank to be introduced

The College of Policing today announced plans to launch a new programme for Direct Entry at inspector rank.

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11 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Proposals to widen access to the legal profession could have the opposite effect, warns Law Society

Social mobility and the global competitiveness of UK law could be damaged bythe removal ofcurrentapproved routes to qualifying as a solicitor, the Law Society warned today.

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08 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Officers need more training to help tackle honour-based violence, Police Federation of England and Wales

Police Federation's response to HMIC report, 'The depths of dishonour: Hidden voices and shameful crimes.

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07 Dec 2015 Home affairs

SRA proposes a Solicitors Qualifying Examination for all new solicitors

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is proposing a shake-up in the way solicitors qualify, with a consultation on a new standardised system for assessing trainees.

Misconduct in public office law is ‘flawed’ and must be replaced, says former attorney general

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05 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Misconduct in public office law is ‘flawed’ and must be replaced, says former attorney general

Misconduct in public office is a common law offence, but the existing rules have come under fire from the legal profession, prompting calls for their revision.

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03 Dec 2015 Home affairs

Law Society statement on scrapping of criminal courts charge

Law Society president Jonathan Smithers said:

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03 Dec 2015 Home affairs

SRA's latest Business Plan continues good work

The SRA has today published its latest Business Plan, setting out how it will build upon the progress made in the last 12 months.

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02 Dec 2015 Home affairs

SRA backs call for independent legal regulators

The SRA Board has today welcomed the Government proposals to make legal service regulators independent from their representative bodies.