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Is George Osborne changing the shape of the state?
The asset sales being contemplated by Chancellor George Osborne only deliver some cuts and one-off benefits, briefly flattering the nation’s accounts.
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As solicitors prepare for crisis talks with Michael Gove over cuts to legal aid fees, their ongoing work to rule is clogging up the legal system. And barristers are due to join the protest on Monday.
The asset sales being contemplated by Chancellor George Osborne only deliver some cuts and one-off benefits, briefly flattering the nation’s accounts.
The Criminal Bar Association in England and Wales votes to support solicitors who are on strike over Government cuts to legal aid.
Convictions for internet “trolls” who target people with abusive or offensive material online increase eight-fold in a decade, official figures reveal.
There is a growing crisis in British prisons with violence, self-harm and prisoner suicide on the rise. Blogger “Alex Cavendish”, who served time in six different prisons, believes he knows why.
Highlighting a lack of security, UK prisoners are brazenly uploading pictures of drugs, cash and even a dangerous weapon on their illegal social media accounts, a Channel 4 News investigation finds.
Michael Spurr, the man in charge of prisons in England and Wales, tells Channel 4 News he is dealing with “a very different dynamic in prisons today” but insists prisons are “not out of control”.
At least two people are dead following a terrorism raid in the town of Verviers and a third person is seriously injured according to Belgian TV.
The government has been criticised for failing to deport hundreds of foreign criminals, many of whom have now disappeared.
Ministers are talking about reviving the ancient laws of treason to deal with jihadis. What is treason and should it make a comeback?
Week after week there seems to be yet another damning report on the state of this country’s prisons. Today it is the Serco privately run Doncaster Prison.
Channel 4 News gains exclusive access to Britain’s only fully therapeutic prison that is rehabilitating some of the UK’s most dangerous offenders.
Live updates from Downing Street as the prime minister reshuffles his cabinet.
How many sharia courts are there in the UK? What powers do they have? And can Islamic rules ever operate alongside the English legal system?
A Channel 4 News investigation has found that parents whose babies die at birth, or shortly after, are being denied inquests to find out what happened.