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HMP Hindley expansion plan to house hundreds more inmates set to be given green light

“The prison population is currently forecast to increase over the next 10 years, reaching unprecedented levels by the end of the decade."

Manchester Evening News

Vandal goes on wrecking spree 'smashing up' cars belonging to staff outside Forest Bank prison

Three cars belonging to staff members were damaged on Sunday - police are investigating

Manchester Evening News

Government departures since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister

The list includes 10 Cabinet ministers.

The Independent UK

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Full list of government departures over Boris Johnson’s leadership

Here is a list of the all the 59 MPs who have resigned or been sacked since Tuesday evening.

The Independent UK

Barristers threaten to sue government as strike continues to wreak havoc with courts

At least 700 court cases were disrupted by the first two days of a continuing strike over legal aid

The Independent UK

The 44 people who have left Boris Johnson's Government, so far

The equivalent figure for the whole of Theresa May’s premiership was 52

Wales Online

Departures from government since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister

As of 10pm on July 6 2022, there have been 66 departures since July 2019.

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Criminal courts face disruption as barristers strike for second week

Members of the Criminal Bar Association have walked out in a dispute over pay and conditions.

The Independent UK

London lawyers refuse legal aid jobs in dispute over fees

Cases rejected include assaults on health workers and harrassment offences

The Guardian - UK

New UK ‘bill of rights’ exempts government from free speech protections

Government policies to crack down on protest and other speech exempted from new laws

The Independent UK

Arts centre near prison to be turned into hostel for newly-released inmates

Residents are protesting using the Old Governor's House, in west London, for newly released prisoners as it's near a school and ex-cons have already been bothering girls in the area

Daily Mirror

At least 700 court cases disrupted in first two days of barristers’ strike as action set to escalate

Three days of action are due to take place next week, as some trials delayed until 2023

The Independent UK

Barristers vow to continue strike action and claim 15% pay offer is ‘nothing new’

The Criminal Bar Association says it will take years - late 2023 or 2024 - for any new payments on new instructions to land

Evening Standard

Year-long delay on hate crime reform unexplained

The Royal Commission recommended hate crime laws be rewritten in December 2020 but it took officials more than a year to report to ministers.

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Liverpool Echo

Evil killer who murdered Helen McCourt dies taking final resting place to grave

Ian Simms, 64, strangled 22-year-old Helen McCourt as she walked home

Daily Mirror

Ex-pub boss who murdered Helen McCourt dies without revealing where he hid her body

Former pub landlord Ian Simms, 66, strangled 22-year-old Helen McCourt as she walked home from work in 1988 - but never revealed where her body is

The Guardian - UK

‘I wouldn’t have the money to pay a lawyer’: tenants left without means to sue rogue landlords

New rules on fixed recoverable legal costs mean solicitors will no longer be able to afford to take on housing cases

Manchester Evening News

Environmental health officials are called to Forest Bank prison as it is 'infested with rats'

One former inmate says fellow lags were given free Dominos pizza to clean the kitchen while other prisoners made 'rodent excluders' from socks and loo roll to keep unwelcome visitors at bay

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The Guardian - UK

Court support service under threat as Ministry of Justice pulls funding

Exclusive: Support Through Court, which helps people unable to afford lawyers, warns of ‘devastating impact’

The Guardian - UK

Inquiry urged into ‘parental alienation’ court experts

Lawyers and MPs in England and Wales express concern over ‘unregulated’ psychologists who play key role in disputes over domestic abuse

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of victims of violent and sexual crime stuck in England and Wales court backlog

Sevenfold rise in those waiting at least a year for cases to be heard as lawyers quit over cuts in legal aid

Bangkok Post

Groups want pubs scrutinised

A coalition of four anti-alcohol groups on Monday submitted an open letter calling on the Ministry of Justice to open a fact-finding probe into two pubs in Bangkok and Nakhon Si Thammarat suspected of breaking the law.

The Guardian - UK

Barristers to be balloted on possible walkouts in row over legal aid rates

More than 2,400 barristers in England and Wales to be balloted amid warnings of crisis in justice system

Manchester Evening News

Strangeways bosses explain reason for lockdown at prison as inmates confined to cells all week

The Ministry of Justice has confirmed the lockdown is due to an 'intelligence-led operation'

Newsroom.co.nz

Govt learns of undisclosed Netsafe exit package through the media – again

Netsafe did not tell its ministerial paymasters that it spent nearly $20,000 on a secret payout to a senior advisor accused of assaulting a family member.

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