Paul Day

The Government is urging people to consider becoming magistrates as it launches a national campaign aimed at recruiting thousands of new volunteers to help deliver justice in local communities.

Lawyers representing around 1.6 million motorists involved in the Dieselgate litigation are to ask the High Court for permission to appeal a judgment on whether carmakers used devices to manipulate vehicle emissions tests.

Electronic monitoring is not being used consistently to protect victims, manage risks or help reduce reoffending, according to inspectors who found significant weaknesses in the system as its use continues to expand.

Families facing eviction, problem debt, benefit disputes and family breakdown are set to receive earlier access to free legal advice through a new £16 million Government fund.

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has officially changed its name to the Public Service Ombudsman, in a move designed to make its role clearer to the public.

Plans to allow more criminal trials to be heard by a judge without a jury have been dropped as the Government moves to fast-track wider reforms aimed at tackling the record Crown Court backlog.

The Government must ensure new rules on vaping and tobacco are tightly drafted to prevent manufacturers exploiting loopholes or using flavour descriptions that appeal to children, councils have warned.

Researchers examined nearly 75,000 emergency department visits for asthma and COPD between February 2016 and December 2022. The study found the risk of an emergency...

Three town councils in Northamptonshire have thrown their support behind a proposed law aimed at increasing transparency over contaminated land, just months after North Northamptonshire Council rejected the measure.

More than half of people who have made, or considered making, a formal complaint about a regulated service in the past year have used artificial intelligence as part of the process, new research from the Legal Ombudsman (LeO) suggests.