A young man who spent more than seven years behind bars for a murder he did not commit had his conviction quashed by judges today.

Gurim Pajova, a Kosovan refugee who had no licence or insurance, was almost three times over the limit after an all day drinking session when he failed to negotiate a bend on a narrow country road, crashing through a hedge before ending up in a field.

Chief Constable Andy Trotter, who leads for ACPO on media issues said:

"I will not have my courtroom turned into a circus," Lady Justice Hallett warned family and supporters in a standing room-only courtroom at the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday. Family and friends had turned out in force to support Sam Hallam, who was 18 when he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2005 for killing trainee chef Essayas Kassahun, 21, in a gang attack. Hallam has always protested his innocence.

Thursday 17 May 2012 by Catherine Baksi The logistics company known for its distinctive Eddie Stobart lorries has launched a legal service to help the public cut the cost of legal disputes by linking clients directly with barristers without the need for a solicitor.

Media organisations won a High Court battle today against being forced to hand over to the police footage of high-profile evictions of residents from the Dale Farm travellers’ site.

Grahame Maxwell, who retired from North Yorkshire Police on Tuesday, will receive the payment because he was required to leave his £133,000-a-year post before being able to secure the full pension entitlement available to officers after 30 years of service.

The 26-second clip came to light after a 52-year-old man and a 31-year-old man were arrested by Gloucestershire Police on Saturday after the suspicious items were found in a garage in Cheltenham.

Rebecca Blake, 29, and Conor McRedmond were arrested and held for five days accused of having sex outside marriage and being drunk in a public place which are both criminal offences in the Islamic state.

Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said affluent workers were fuelling the £1 billion market in the Class A narcotic.

Lay magistrates have pleasantly changed: when I qualified, my clients were sentenced by the Chamber of Commerce sitting with a few Masters of the Hunt for diversity purposes.

The interpreter debacle

An academic analysis of the effects of the “Stop Delaying Justice!” initiative.

HHJ Radford is resident judge at Snaresbrook Crown Court. He spoke to Malcolm Duxbury.

This is my third report as president and I can’t help but wonder where the time has gone.

The Law Society is seeking views on a plan to bolster its criminal litigation quality standard by reaccrediting solicitors every five years.

It may seem an unlikely partner to Britain’s rarified barristers’ chambers, but the company best known for its Eddie Stobart lorries is preparing to mount an assault on the legal industry.

Thursday 03 May 2012 by Catherine Baksi Labour will not yet commit to reversing specific changes contained in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, the shadow justice minister said this week.

David Healer screamed in pain as he was assaulted by police custody sergeant Stephen Harvey and civilian detention officer Michael Mount after his arrest in County Durham in March last year.

Friday 11 May 2012 by John Hyde A union leader has threatened a further strike next month after industrial action by court workers across the country.

A law that bans the use of “insulting words or behaviour” is strangling free speech and should be repealed, according to an unlikely alliance of politicians and activists.

European Court of Human Rights

Sam Hallam’s mother, Wendy Cohen, stood outside the entrance to the cells of the Royal Courts of Justice, awaiting the moment she had dreamt of for seven years.

A man who left his girlfriend blind after gouging her eyes in what police called a "premeditated, sustained and vicious attack", has been jailed indefinitely.

Courts in England and Wales will be more publicly accessible than ever before when television broadcasting is introduced, Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke said today.