Where a trader in the mobile phone grey market purchased goods from outside the UK which were not suitable for use in the UK and exported them outside the EU, the non-UK character of the goods did not indicate that the trader should have known that the transactions were connected to missing trader fraud.

Government ambitions to impose top-down change on the criminal justice system may be doomed, according to an international academic study. A report sponsored by IT services firm Steria - a veteran contractor to English justice organisations - concludes that "progress is typically driven from the bottom up rather than from deliberate centralised policies".

A Rochdale vicar has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for conducting over 20 sham marriages and for stealing more than £8,000 of donat

Statement from the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, concerning the discontinuance of the trial of eight former police officers accuse

There has been widespread coverage today of allegations made by Chris Jefferies through his solicitors accusing the police and Crown Prosecution Servi

Latest Home Office statistics show that there were 136,261 police officers (full-time equivalent) as of 30 September 2011 in the 43 territorial police forces of England and Wales. This represents a decline of 6,012 when compared with September 2010.

The policing minister, Nick Herbert has announced plans to make an order requiring the police service and police authorities to collaborate in the provision of a national air service

The government today announced plans to lay an urgent amendment to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill to prohibit scrap payments to purchase scrap metal and increase fines that regulate the metal recycling industry

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Case of Surjit Chhokar, who was stabbed to death in 1998, will be reopened after Scotland scraps double jeopardy rule

Help the CPR Committee put together proposals in relation to the provision of initial details of a case (advance information) between charge and the first appearance for defendants who are released on bail.

University lecturer Theodora Dallas jailed for six months for researching criminal defendant while serving on jury

Murder and police corruption convictions fast-tracked to appeal court as questions are raised about reliability and the cost of cultivating criminals

A juror who carried out internet research on a defendant has been jailed for six months.

How the woman who inspired Prime Suspect's Helen Mirren and the 'M25 Bandit' are working together on an inside job

Offenders who play only a minor role in gangs may be spared jail if they are found supplying only small quantities of drugs, according to official guidelines issued today.

Four businessmen have been convicted of accepting payments for passing on confidential information to companies bidding for lucrative engineering projects in Iran, Egypt, Singapore, Russia and Abu Dhabi.

In a trial involving aggravated burglary and sexual offences a judge had fairly summed up the evidence and the convictions could not be said to be unsafe. However, the total sentence of 16 years was manifestly excessive and was reduced to 12 years' imprisonment.

Where a defendant was committed to the Crown Court for sentence for both either-way and summary-only offences, provided the power of the magistrates' court to commit for sentence had been properly exercised in respect of one or more of the either-way offences in accordance with the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 s.3, a mistake in recording the statutory basis for committal for the summary-only offences would not invalidate the committal.

Police protect informer who escaped trial by fingering drug dealer Ricky Percival