The CPS has successfully prosecuted two Rumanian men in connection with the theft of hundreds of pounds worth of chewing gum from a supermarket in Tau

Manchester-based personal injury firm Express Solicitors has announced £3m expansion plans and the creation of 40 new jobs in a bid to become an alternative business structure with a £10m turnover within four years.

The figures on rape may be uncertain, but we could lower the sexual assault rate in American jails – if we had the political will

• McKenzie forged letters to avoid speeding convictions• 33-year-old jailed for six months after pleading guilty

Five members of car clamping operation treated public as 'licence to print money', court hears

Coaches whose past experiences must include addiction or imprisonment are helping to keep Scotland's ex-offenders on the straight and narrow

Animal charity criticises prosecutors for letter claiming Dorset hunt was 'media savvy' and would use specialist lawyers

A retired Kent businessman facing extradition to America on Friday was invited yesterday to testify before MPs about the US-UK extradition treaty.

A judge has given the go-ahead for a claim to be served via Facebook in what is thought to be the first case of its kind in the English High Court.

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A judge has given the go-ahead for a claim to be served via Facebook in what is thought to be the first case of its kind in the English High Court.

Rupert Murdoch has invited journalists from The Sun who have been arrested to come back to work as he announced that a new Sunday newspaper is imminent

A Kazakh banker accused of one of the biggest ever bank frauds was in hiding last night after he was sentenced to prison for 22 months for contempt of court.

The country’s most senior civil judge has attacked the civil justice system as being “out of kilter” after lawyers reaped almost six times as much money as their client in an accident claim.

Prejudicial attitudes to rape infect our society. Opportunities for real change must not be squandered

The Ministry of Justice is allowing court and tribunals to select their own interpreters after admitting ‘teething problems’ with a new contract service.

Nine-fold increase in use of force at Ashfield young offender institution only partly accounted for by rise in inmate numbers

The first of a new generation of businesses tipped to transform Britain’s £23 billion legal industry are to be approved “within weeks”, the body responsible for regulating them said yesterday.

A bus driver who used his bus like a 'weapon' to knock a cyclist to the ground has been jailed for 17 months

Chris Tappin seems an improbable criminal. Silver-haired, bespectacled and slightly deaf, the retired businessman lives in an elegant house in Orpington, heads the Kent Golf Union, representing the county’s 95 clubs, plays bridge and dotes on his grandson.