Gary Gibbon
Catgate – last flick of the tail?
Gary Gibbon on the last hurrah – or should that be miaow? – of “catgate”.
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Doubts cast over tagging as government calls for extension
More than half of all criminals forced to wear electronic tags break the terms of their curfews, according to a new report.
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Clegg demands changes to ‘secret’ justice plans
Plans to hold more inquests and court cases in private are losing ground after criticism from senior MPs, peers, and the deputy prime minister.
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FactCheck: Jailbird juveniles – too much, too soon?
The United Kingdom is locking up her children too young and too often – and it’s not helping to rehabilitate them, says Europe’s human rights watchdog.The Ministry of Justice hasn’t reviewed the minimum age since the 1960s. But does it need to?
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Police offer £10,000 to catch escaped prisoner
Detectives offer a reward for information on the whereabouts of an “extremely dangerous” murder suspect who escaped from a prison van in Worcestershire on Monday.
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FactCheck: Do legal aid reforms protect the needy?
MPs insist the neediest will still get free or subsidised legal help, but that the £2bn spent annually on legal aid has got to be cut. Will civil cases receive the legal aid they need and deserve? FactCheck investigates.
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Cameron made ‘bad’ Euro deal, says Clegg
The UK emerged from last week’s Brussels summit with a “bad deal”, says Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who fears Britain will now become “isolated and marginalised” within the EU.
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Senior tories warn EU treaty reform will require referendum
Two senior conservatives warn that a redrawn eurozone would make a referendum inevitable, despite the prime minister’s pledge to veto any EU reform plans that fail to protect UK financial interests.
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Reoffenders commit half a million crimes in a year
As new figures show more than half a million crimes were committed in a year by reoffenders, a prison reform campaigner tells Channel 4 News community sentences are the answer.
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Gary Gibbon
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Clarke regrets branding May ‘laughable’
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke says he regrets his “colourful language” when he accused Home Secretary Theresa May of making “laughable and childlike” comments about the human rights act.
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Two thirds of rioters with previous conviction never jailed
Many of the people who have appeared in court in connection with last month’s riots have never been sent to jail before despite multiple previous convictions, new figures show.
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FactCheck: Were the rioters a ‘feral underclass’?
Feral Underclass is a humdinger of a phrase from Ken Clarke, but what does it mean? Previously, David Cameron lumped the rioters together as “pockets of our society that are not only broken, but frankly sick”. And after almost a month of naming and shaming the rioters in the national press, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has released the facts. So do they deserve the stigma? FactCheck investigates.
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Kenneth Clarke proposes ‘radical changes’ to penal system
As Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke pledges to reduce high rates of reoffending in the wake of the riots, experts tell Channel 4 News the criminal justice system is “not rehabilitating anyone”.
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Video cameras to be allowed in courts
The ban on filming in courts will be overturned to improve public understanding of the justice system, Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke has announced.
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Riots led by ‘criminal classes’
Riots which swept across England in August were the result of a “broken penal system” which failed to stop a “feral underclass” from reoffending, says Justice Secretary Ken Clarke.
