legal aid

English criminal barristers have begun an indefinite strike over pay and conditions, at a time when a stricken criminal justice system is already facing crippling backlogs.

Labour’s shadow government minister for legal aid, Karl Turner MP, has said that freedom of speech does not include the freedom to “generally offend.”

Judges have once again thwarted deportation efforts by Priti Patel’s Home Office, blocking the removal of a convicted drug dealer from Nigeria.

One of the terrorist killers of Lee Rigby has “helped convert prisoners to Islam” a senior judge, who said it will be a “great pity” if he is not given taxpayers’ cash to sue the government, has been told.

The infamous Islamic hate preacher and Islamic State recruiter Anjem Choudary was given almost £100,000 of taxpayers’ money to fight his recent conviction.

The British government should spend more on legal aid to help migrants successfully apply for asylum in the UK, a Labour MP has suggested.

British soldiers facing prosecution for alleged abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan may have the legal costs of their defence docked from their pay by the Ministry of Defence, it has emerged.

Texas lawyers are manning legal hotlines to assist victims of the disastrous storms and tornadoes in Texas.

Four terrorism suspects with links to ISIS executioner Jihadi John have been awarded hundreds of thousands of pounds of British taxpayers’ money in legal aid to sue to government for slapping counter-terrorism orders on them – despite having fled the