Search results for ‘Ministry of Justice’
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Worboys outgoing Parole Board chairman: Ministry of Justice ‘messed up’
Nick Hardwick, the outgoing chairman of the Parole Board is in the studio.
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Ministry of Justice admit to handing over incomplete Worboys dossier
The Ministry of Justice has admitted responsibility for submitting an incomplete dossier to the Parole Board panel which decided to release the black cab rapist John Worboys. But it said that the Parole Board did have sufficient evidence to conclude that Worboys should have stayed behind bars. The former head of the Parole Board, who was…
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Ministry of Justice to axe 14,000 jobs
Spending review: “Frontline will bear the brunt” says leaked Ministry of Justice memo announcing 14,000 job losses, Channel 4 News exclusively learns.
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Prisons ‘in such a bad situation’ says Justice Select Committee Chair
We spoke to Conservative MP and chair of the Justice Select Committee, Sir Bob Neill.
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Ukraine: justice minister threatens state of emergency
Ukraine’s Justice Minister Olena Lukash warns protesters she may call a state of emergency after demonstrators break into and occupy the ministry’s building.
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FactCheck: Secret justice?
Justice Secretary says his new Justice and Security Bill won’t increase secrecy in British courts. FactCheck investigates.
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New compensation ruling for miscarriages of justice
A Supreme Court ruling widening the scope for compensation claims by “miscarriage of justice” victims could see the likes of Sion Jenkins and Barry George receiving compensation.
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Government to release prisoners up to 60 days early
The Ministry of Justice says some prisoners convicted of “low-level” offences in England and Wales could be released up to 60 days early to help ease overcrowding.
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Why are some prisoners still serving banned indeterminate prison sentences?
We talk to Mark Day, the Deputy Director at the Prison Reform Trust, and its representative on the Ministry of Justice’s IPP External Stakeholder Challenge Group.
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Knife crime at decade high, figures reveal
The number of people cautioned or convicted for a knife crime in England and Wales reached a record high according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Justice.
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Children will not be placed at Feltham after inspection of young offenders’ institution
The Ministry of Justice has imposed a temporary ban on sending children to Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution in the wake of an urgent inspection that found an “extraordinary” decline in safety and care.
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Hafsa Qureshi: LGBT Muslim voices ‘are still not being heard’
Hafsa Qureshi works at the Ministry of Justice and has been named 2019 Bi role model of the year by the campaigning group Stonewall.
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Courts ‘brought to their knees’ by IT failure
Thousands of cases have been affected, trials disrupted and courts across England and Wales, say lawyers, were “brought to their knees” by a major IT failure which the Ministry of Justice is scrambling to fix.
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Number of evictions rise but have landlords got better?
The number of tenants being turned out of their homes by bailiffs rises to a record high, but the number of private landlords making claims to evict tenants falls, Ministry of Justice statistics show.
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MoJ: sensitive files about police shootings go missing
Files relating to three judge-led inquiries, including the police shooting of Mark Duggan, have gone missing in the post, the Ministry of Justice says.
