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Police

This is a guest blog from Derek Flint, retired police officer and former police custody… Read more

On the face of it, the story broken by the BBC today is alarming –… Read more

FTA is the bane of a police officer’s life. If a defendant doesn’t turn up… Read more

In the old days people would talk of the neighbourhood bobby giving a teenager a… Read more

This week the Lord Chief Justice implied that too many people were imprisoned, and that… Read more

The MacPherson report on Stephen Lawrence defined institutional racism as “the collective failure of an… Read more

Adults in the UK are more likely to have had experience of a court case,… Read more

The number of prosecutions has gone down in recent years, but when I talk to… Read more

There is huge goodwill towards restorative justice, but unfortunately goodwill has not really got it… Read more

Few think-tanks devote much time to the diminution of local justice.  But Politeia has just… Read more

When I was a magistrate,  interpreters were frequent used to aid defendant, witness or both…. Read more

One of the reasons why our prisons are full to bursting is because our sentencing… Read more

How punitive is the man on the Clapham omnibus?  It is a subject that divides… Read more

This week peers voted against the government’s new definition of anti-social behaviour – conduct capable… Read more

Post riots, the Ministry of Justice announced that they were going to pilot more flexible… Read more

Keir Starmer has given a retirement interview to the Times in which he calls for… Read more