The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said there is a strong case for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE), but has extended its timetable so that it can work on getting the detail right before making a final decision.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is proposing to increase access to legal services by removing unnecessary bureaucracy and freeing up solicitors to work in new markets.

Phil Golding has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Law Commission. 

The Bar Council has responded to today’s report from the Public Accounts Committee, on the criminal justice system.

The Office for National Statistics has today released figures for net migration. Mark Hilton, immigration director of London First, said:

The former shadow home secretary calls for a change in attitudes to online abuse and intimidation as she calls on people to #reclaimtheinternet.

Professor Alison Harcourt from the University of Exeter's Department of Politics writes about the Digital Economy Bill, announced in last week's Queen's Speech.

The Second Chamber is dominated by peers from the capital, Labour's Lord Foulkes reveals to PoliticsHome, attending to a metropolitan elite, rather than ordinary people.

A new report from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has reinforced the importance of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to a UK low carbon energy system and identified an effective way of reducing costs deploying existing technology and utilising shared infrastructure, rather than investment in further technology advances.

Simon Harrison, Chair of the IET Energy Policy Panel, said:

Better treatment and protection for police firearms officers trying to protect the public is urgently needed.

That’s the key message of a feature report in ‘Policing for the Future’, a 60-minute news and current affairs-style programme, produced by the Police Federation of England and Wales and ITN Productions.

University of Exeter experts will collect large amounts of propaganda put on the internet by Islamic State terrorists in real time to understand how it radicalises people.

Over half of British university students do not know when the EU referendum is taking place, according to a new poll published today.

Emman El-Badawy, a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, explains why the Government must be more nuanced in its approach to tackling extremism.

UNICEF UK is calling on the UK Government to sign up to the Safe Schools Declaration, sending a clear message to the world that schools must not be attacked or occupied for military purposes.

The Chairman of the Bar has responded to the Queen’s Speech, delivered today.

The Deputy Head of the University of Exeter Law School Richard Edwards offers his thoughts on proposed changes to the Human Rights Act and replacing it with a new British Bill of Rights.

Today Her Majesty the Queen will deliver a speech outlining the government’s legislative priorities for the 2016/17 parliamentary year in what will be defining year for Prime Minister David Cameron.

The mental health and stress levels of officers may be negatively impacted by the falling number of officers on the ground, the initial results of new research suggests.

The Police Federation of England and Wales responds to comments made by the Home Secretary at their annual conference in Bournemouth.

Ahead of the Queen's Speech, the Bar Council warns that the justice system is at risk of undermining its preeminent position in the world unless certain measures are taken. 

The thin blue line has never been thinner, Police Federation chair Steve White tells Aden Simpson, and if conditions and pay do not improve, members may 'lose faith' in century-old convention and lobby for industrial rights.

Despite the threat of violence, the majority of officers in England and Wales do not want to carry firearms, according to a new national survey.

New research by the national charity Turn2us has revealed that nearly a third (29%) of MPs have previously claimed unemployment benefits.