The Ministry of Justice aims to enlist 2,000 volunteer magistrates in the next financial year Politics
Andy Jones, 71, had been volunteering with the Trust for well over a decade, across several areas including the Woolbeding Estate and the Devil's Punch Bowl in Surrey.(Pictured: Hilary McGrady) Politics
"Victims are being let down by the crisis in our courts" Events
The Ministry of Justice said there were 79,619 cases waiting to be dealt with in the senior courts in England and Wales at the end of September. Events
New data from the Ministry of Justice showed the backlog of asylum cases in the lower tribunal rocketed by 104 per cent to 69,670 by the end of September, up from 34,234 a year earlier. Events
The changes proposed by the justice secretary are a path to increasing victim confidence in the criminal justice system and to swifter justice, writes Labour MP and former crown prosecutor Linsey Farnsworth Events