A Surrey MP has urged the government to increase the number of crown court sitting days so that burglars and other offenders ...

Max Cashman, Declan Moor and Lee Bradshaw have all been charged with killing 31-year-old Stockton man Aiden Matthews ...

Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland who are striking indefinitely have called for urgency in addressing the "crisis" in ...

Five Crown Courts across the UK last month embraced the internet with the launch of dedicated websites hosted by the Court Service. Southwark Crown Court launched its website on 10 December followed ...

Around 95 per cent of jury trials could be axed under plans by Labour which threaten to 'destroy justice as we know it', new legal analysis shows. The eyewatering scale of the proposed cuts can today ...

The crown court backlog in England and Wales has risen to nearly 80,000 cases in a new record. Data published on Thursday showed the open caseload was 79,619 at the end of September, up 2% from 78,096 ...

The Crown court backlog has hit an all-time high of just under 77,000 cases, up nearly 6,000 since Labour came to power. Ministry of Justice figures published today showed 76,957 cases were awaiting a ...

A significant recruitment drive has been launched across England and Wales, aiming to enlist thousands of new volunteer ...

Here is a round up of the most high-profile court cases in Oxford over the last 12 months including an incident at the Westgate centre.