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Dominic Raab: The high-profile casualty of Liz Truss’s cabinet reshuffle

The justice secretary, who has lasted less than a year in his latest position, reportedly admitted this week it was likely he would face the sack.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss reshuffle – as it happened

Live updates on new appointments to the government as prime minister Liz Truss assembles her team

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss’s justice secretary urged to meet striking criminal barristers

CBA chair called on Dominic Raab’s replacement to hold talks in attempt to resolve 22-week-long industrial action

The Guardian - UK

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Criminal barristers call on new PM Liz Truss to negotiate and end legal aid strike

Members of the Criminal Bar Association have been taking industrial action since April

Evening Standard

Criminal barristers prepare for indefinite strike over legal aid

Escalation of action follows ministers’ refusal to agree to 25% increase in fees as backlog grows to 60,000 cases

The Guardian - UK

Why are criminal barristers striking and what will happen to court cases?

Barristers had been walking out on alternate weeks but are now embarking on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike.

The Independent UK

From crime to the courts: the biggest issues the UK’s new PM will face

Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will have to deal with 20-year high in recorded crime and barristers’ indefinite strike this autumn

The Guardian - UK

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Dominic Raab made Parole Board’s ‘difficult job next to impossible’

Justice secretary criticised by senior officials after board is ‘last to hear’ about important policy changes

The Guardian - UK

Energy costs for courts jumped 50% in five years, says Labour

The party said that Justice Secretary Dominic Raab was holding “victims and taxpayers to ransom”.

The Independent UK

Barristers strike: Why are criminal lawyers staging indefinite walkout?

All-out industrial action seeks to force government’s hand in long-running dispute

The Independent UK

Why are criminal barristers striking and what will happen to court cases?

Barristers are currently walking out on alternate weeks.

The Independent UK

Government under fire for doing ‘nothing’ to resolve industrial disputes

Criminal barristers in England and Wales voted in favour of an all-out strike.

The Independent UK

‘You can’t just rewrite the rules’: SNP slam Tory plans for judicial reform

The SNP has likened the UK Government to “tinpot dictators”, following reports that justice secretary Dominic Raab plans to limit judges’ power

The National (Scotland)

Leaked report suggests Dominic Raab trying to curb judges’ powers

Exclusive: Deputy prime minister has been accused of wanting ‘a world in which the government is above the law’

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Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK

Home Office and MoJ plans will require migrants convicted of crimes to take photos up to five times a day

The Independent UK

MoJ ‘deeply sorry’ after murderer’s parole dates given to paper before family

Russell Causley, who has never revealed where he hid the body of his wife Carole Packman, is next due to face the Parole Board in October.

The Guardian - UK

Charities warn against ministers getting powers to stop early release from jail

Measure would stop prisoners from being let out automatically part-way through sentences if deemed a threat to public

The Guardian - UK

‘Our theme is relentless love’: England to open first secure school for young offenders

Oasis Restore, which will have bedrooms not cells, aims to revolutionise justice for children convicted of serious crimes

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The Independent UK

MPs concerned over number of women in prison

The Ministry of Justice predicts an increase in the female prison population by more than a third in the next three years.

The Guardian - UK

Women offenders still being jailed despite pledge to cut prisoner numbers, say MPs

Justice committee says little progress made on developing alternatives to custodial sentences as female prison population predicted to rise by a third

Evening Standard

Ministry of Justice wins right to keep temporary Woolwich crown court extension

A temporary extension to Woolwich crown court which was previously judged only good enough to last ten years will be kept permanently, councillors have decided.

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Raab accused of failing to address concerns of criminal barristers

Number of cases delayed by strike hits 2,000 as barristers in England and Wales join picket lines again

The Independent UK

Barristers vow to continue strike action despite 15% pay increase offer

Action took place earlier this week in a dispute over pay and conditions.

Evening Standard

Temporary extra courts set to be made permanent at Woolwich

A temporary extension to one of London’s crown courts looks set to be made permanent amid a fullscale crisis in the criminal justice system.

Manchester Evening News

'Prison will never, ever be a safe place to be pregnant' - Calls to end jailing of pregnant women after infant was stillborn in a cell block loo

A watchdog has found a nurse at HMP Styal thought inmate Louise Powell was suffering period pains - her infant was stillborn in the toilet

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