Responding to the news that the UK will extend the use of Nightingale Courts for a further year, Michelle Heeley KC, Leader of the Midlands Circuit and Barrister at No5 Barristers’ Chambers, said:   “As the criminal court backlog in the UK grows more by the...

On Wednesday 1st February 2023, Clinton Hartland of The Watering Trough in Walsall, West Midlands was found guilty in his absence of two offences of dishonest reception of a television transmission. In this case, Hartland televised Sky Sports football matches, with the intent to...

If timely access to justice for victims, witnesses and defendants is to be ensured, there can be no more hold-ups in criminal legal aid investment, warns the Law Society of England and Wales. Sir Christopher Bellamy, chair of the Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid,...