Amanda Pinto QC, Chair of the Bar Council, responds to reports that the Government would consider indefinite detention for convicted terrorists, 

Mental health in policing must be treated as seriously as physical safety, the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) has urged today (6 February).

Before pre-charge bail reforms came into effect in 2017, the Police Federation predicted that pre-charge bail would drop dramatically and that releasing suspected “under investigation” would become the norm – we didn’t really need a crystal ball, writes John Apter, National Chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales.

Amanda Pinto QC, Chair of the Bar Council, responds to pre-charge bail reform plans.

An emergency law ending automatic early release must be passed by 27 February to prevent six terror suspects walking free from prison within weeks, the Government has warned.

Home Office announces pre-charge bail consultation to ‘support officers and victims’.

Diane Abbott has been criticised after she suggested that John Bercow cannot be guilty of bullying because one of his alleged victims was in the Army.

There is little doubt that grooming and sexual abuse of children is continuing. Local authorities and the police have committed to improving, so must the Home Office, writes Graham Stringer MP.

The Home Office review into pre-charge bail must understand why release under investigation (RUI) has rocketed and recognise the damage it has done to so many victims, writes Bambos Charalambous MP. 

Chair of the Bar Council responds to the government's plans on retrospective sentencing changes.

We already have the most comprehensive CCTV coverage in the Western world, add artificial intelligence driven live facial recognition and you have all the makings of a surveillance state, writes Lord Clement-Jones.

Parliament should push for the widest possible involvement of opposition parties and non-governmental organizations as plans move forward on a national data strategy, writes Lord Wallace.

Emergency legislation ending automatic release for anyone convicted of terror-related offences will be introduced by ministers within days.

The system of automatically releasing convicted terrorists part-way through their sentences has “come to the end of its useful life”, Boris Johnson has declared in the wake of a fresh attack in London.

The Bar Council respond to the publication of the annual Bar Standards Board (BSB) Diversity at the Bar report.

Boris Johnson is to unveil “fundamental changes” to the way convicted terrorists are released from jail in the wake of the Streatham knife attack.

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

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has hit out at Donald Tusk over his supportive comments towards Scottish independence, branding them "un-European" and "irresponsible".

Dominic Cummings has established a "network of spies" to watch special advisers suspected of passing over information to journalists, it has been claimed.

The Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has faced criticism from leading barristers that he misled the Commons Justice Committee over crown court funding cuts.

Dods Monitoring's EU team consider what the EU wants from the Brexit negotiations. 

The Bar Council expresses its grave concern at the latest legislative measure by the Polish parliament, passed on 23 January 2020, which interferes, once more, with the independence of the judiciary, a principle which is internationally recognised.

10 months on from the date the UK was meant to leave the EU, the UK will leave the European Union after almost 50 years of membership tonight at 23:00 GMT. Dods Monitoring's Laura Hutchinson considers the next steps. 

New figures published today (Wednesday 29 January 2020) reveal that one British person travels to Switzerland for an assisted death at least every seven days, up from one every eight days in recent years.