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Delaying justice will leave us with no barristers to pick up the pieces Partner content
Coronavirus
By Bar Council
Delaying justice will leave us with no barristers to pick up the pieces
Law and order must not go off into the long grass, the Bar Council has warned after releasing new findings from the barristers’ profession.
Coronavirus
By Compassion in Dying
Living wills skyrocket in light of coronavirus
Figures announced as urgent need for greater advance care planning raised in Lords social care debate
Coronavirus
By Equality and Human Rights Commission
Preventing the health crisis from becoming a justice crisis
As the use of video and phone hearings has been swiftly expanded by the Ministry of Justice in response to COVID-19, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published interim findings from its criminal justice inquiry, to help mitigate the risks that these technologies pose to disabled people.
The world must work together: Save the Children UK responds to DFID’s coronavirus announcement Partner content
Coronavirus
By Save the Children
The world must work together: Save the Children UK responds to DFID’s coronavirus announcement
Governments around the world are grappling with how best to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Beyond the immediate health crisis, COVID-19 is hurting economic growth and driving vulnerable people into poverty and insecurity.
Coronavirus
By Bar Council
Unrealistic" that police and CPS could continue as though Covid-19 doesn't exist, says Bar Council
We cannot afford as a society to shut down or put off justice until the pandemic disappears.”
Coronavirus
Bar Council urges Government to act over the Bar's Covid-19 financial fears
In the last few weeks, the Bar Council has been strongly urging the Government to introduce further targeted financial support to ensure the sustainability of the Bar particularly in light of Covid-19.
Home affairs
By Dignity in Dying
Royal College of GPs’ assisted dying survey reveals even greater shift in opinion, after Council petitioned to release weighted results
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has released the full, weighted results of its 2019 membership survey on assisted dying, revealing an even greater shift in opinion from its 2013 poll.
Coronavirus
By Bar Council
Covid-19 update to 'key worker' status in the justice system - Bar Council reaction
The Government has rightly acknowledged that the Bar and other legal practitioners are fundamental to the running of the justice system.
Coronavirus
By Bar Council
Barristers are key workers - Bar Council
Barristers have a vital role to play in making justice happen every day, says Amanda Pinto QC, Chair of the Bar Council.
No one should be making a profit out of other people’s suffering
Coronavirus
By Alexander Stafford MP
No one should be making a profit out of other people’s suffering
The Government has done much to delay the spread of the virus, and to support businesses at this difficult time, but we now must stamp out those who seek to make financial gain out of fear and sickness, says Alexander Stafford MP.
Electoral reforms would reduce confusion and bring elections into the 21st Century Partner content
Home affairs
By Law Commission
Electoral reforms would reduce confusion and bring elections into the 21st Century
Reforms to simplify, clarify and improve electoral law have today been published by the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission (the Law Commissions).