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Lib Dems launch ‘Portillo pot’ fundraiser to oust Tory ministers

Leader Ed Davey tells party members it is critical moment as Tories pour election funds into keeping blue wall seats

The Guardian - UK

Extra 100,000 families face ‘mortgage nightmare’ with hike before election

Exclusive: More than 3,300 households a day set to see payments rise significantly before 4 July

The Independent UK

Tories warned ‘no seat is safe’ as Lib Dems put Gove and Hunt on ‘big beast’ hit list

The Lib Dems have revealed their ‘big beast’ hit list of target Tory seats they believe they can win

The Independent UK

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MP uses parliamentary privilege to ask why Lucy Letby story blocked in UK

David Davis says block on accessing New Yorker’s 13,000-word article ‘seems in defiance of open justice’

The Guardian - UK

High-risk offenders included in early release scheme, prisons inspector says

Domestic abuser among those freed from jail as part of plan to relieve overcrowding, watchdog reveals

The Guardian - UK

Mandelson firm worked for campaign critics say would hinder Post Office-style lawsuits

Exclusive: Litigation such as that spearheaded by Alan Bates could become harder if advice from senior figure at Labour peer’s Global Counsel given effect

The Guardian - UK

Lib Dems ‘on course to topple leading Tories’ in general election

Local election results in England justify the decision to focus on Conservative areas, claim party strategists

The Guardian - UK

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Lib Dems say council results show they can take Westminster seats from Tories

Ed Davey says ‘lifelong Conservative voters are backing the Lib Dems’ in constituencies party is targeting

The Guardian - UK

Two thirds of magistrates' cases are now fast-tracked behind closed doors

Lord Chancellor promises reform of under-fire courts process following Standard investigation into injustices

Evening Standard

Controversial fast-track Single Justice Procedure needs reforming, admits Cabinet minister

An Evening Standard investigation has revealed a shocking list of cases handled by the Single Justice Procedure

Evening Standard

Family of man who died on Bibby Stockholm say government should be held responsible

Leonard Farruku, 27, died in a suspected suicide on barge for asylum seekers and his relatives want an independent inquiry

The Guardian - UK

Women at Cheltenham feel threatened by pop-up strip clubs, says minister

Alex Chalk urges local council where racing festival takes place to stop granting licences to such venues

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s prison system is brutal and broken. Why does reforming it seem so impossible?

Prisoners are being released early because jails are overflowing. We know what better policies would look like – but politicians won’t act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Prisoners could be let out 60 days early to relieve crowded jails in England and Wales

Justice secretary announces plan to release ‘certain low-level offenders’ early and also reduce number of foreign prisoners held

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Ministers to back crackdown on Slapp lawsuits aimed at intimidating critics

Government will back bill to curb spurious lawsuits often used by very rich to stop exposure of wrongdoing

The Guardian - UK

Post Office said last month it stands by most Horizon convictions

Letter shows Post Office told ministers it would oppose attempts to overturn 369 prosecutions

Evening Standard

Killer pilot takes legal action against minister’s decision to block release

BA captain Robert Brown beat his wife Joanna Simpson to death with a claw hammer in their family home in October 2010.

The Guardian - UK

Ministers discuss alternative plan to exonerate Post Office Horizon victims

Exclusive: Meetings held about proposal by judiciary for courts to overturn convictions despite plan for bill to clear victims

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Evening Standard

Top judge to look into flaws of controversial fast-track justice system

Action comes after a Standard investigation revealed concerns over how vulnerable are convicted in closed-door hearings

The Guardian - UK

Sue Carr hits back and tells Sunak: the judiciary won’t be cowed

England and Wales’s first lady chief justice has rattled the cages of those in government who had declared open season on judges

The Guardian - UK

Chief justice speaks out about plans to recruit 150 judges to deal with asylum cases

Most senior judge in England and Wales says government plans draw ‘matters of judicial responsibility into the political arena’

The Independent UK

11 Cabinet ministers could lose their seats in upcoming election, according to Tory poll

A YouGov survey has predicted that several senior ministers are on track to lose their seats to Labour, Lib Dems and the SNP

The Guardian - UK

Plans to reform private prosecutions after Post Office Horizon scandal

Improved oversight and a law to strip organisations of their power to take people to court are among measures gaining cross-party support

The Independent UK

Post Office investigator denies behaving like ‘Mafia gangster’ over Horizon scandal

Astonishing day of evidence sees fraud investigator forced to deny he ‘collected bounty with threats and lies’ – as Rishi Sunak is warned hundreds more victims could come forward

The Independent UK

Post Office investigators were given bonuses for every Horizon conviction

Evidence of ‘horrendous’ culture in pursuing staff emerges as public inquiry resumes

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