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The Latest Breaking News from Ministry of Justice

Criminal courts face disruption as barristers strike for second week

Members of the Criminal Bar Association have walked out in a dispute over pay and conditions.

The Independent UK

London lawyers refuse legal aid jobs in dispute over fees

Cases rejected include assaults on health workers and harrassment offences

The Guardian - UK

New UK ‘bill of rights’ exempts government from free speech protections

Government policies to crack down on protest and other speech exempted from new laws

The Independent UK

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Arts centre near prison to be turned into hostel for newly-released inmates

Residents are protesting using the Old Governor's House, in west London, for newly released prisoners as it's near a school and ex-cons have already been bothering girls in the area

Daily Mirror

At least 700 court cases disrupted in first two days of barristers’ strike as action set to escalate

Three days of action are due to take place next week, as some trials delayed until 2023

The Independent UK

Barristers vow to continue strike action and claim 15% pay offer is ‘nothing new’

The Criminal Bar Association says it will take years - late 2023 or 2024 - for any new payments on new instructions to land

Evening Standard

Year-long delay on hate crime reform unexplained

The Royal Commission recommended hate crime laws be rewritten in December 2020 but it took officials more than a year to report to ministers.

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Evil killer who murdered Helen McCourt dies taking final resting place to grave

Ian Simms, 64, strangled 22-year-old Helen McCourt as she walked home

Liverpool Echo

Ex-pub boss who murdered Helen McCourt dies without revealing where he hid her body

Former pub landlord Ian Simms, 66, strangled 22-year-old Helen McCourt as she walked home from work in 1988 - but never revealed where her body is

Daily Mirror

‘I wouldn’t have the money to pay a lawyer’: tenants left without means to sue rogue landlords

New rules on fixed recoverable legal costs mean solicitors will no longer be able to afford to take on housing cases

The Guardian - UK

Environmental health officials are called to Forest Bank prison as it is 'infested with rats'

One former inmate says fellow lags were given free Dominos pizza to clean the kitchen while other prisoners made 'rodent excluders' from socks and loo roll to keep unwelcome visitors at bay

Manchester Evening News

Court support service under threat as Ministry of Justice pulls funding

Exclusive: Support Through Court, which helps people unable to afford lawyers, warns of ‘devastating impact’

The Guardian - UK

Inquiry urged into ‘parental alienation’ court experts

Lawyers and MPs in England and Wales express concern over ‘unregulated’ psychologists who play key role in disputes over domestic abuse

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of victims of violent and sexual crime stuck in England and Wales court backlog

Sevenfold rise in those waiting at least a year for cases to be heard as lawyers quit over cuts in legal aid

The Guardian - UK

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Bangkok Post

Groups want pubs scrutinised

A coalition of four anti-alcohol groups on Monday submitted an open letter calling on the Ministry of Justice to open a fact-finding probe into two pubs in Bangkok and Nakhon Si Thammarat suspected of breaking the law.

The Guardian - UK

Barristers to be balloted on possible walkouts in row over legal aid rates

More than 2,400 barristers in England and Wales to be balloted amid warnings of crisis in justice system

Manchester Evening News

Strangeways bosses explain reason for lockdown at prison as inmates confined to cells all week

The Ministry of Justice has confirmed the lockdown is due to an 'intelligence-led operation'

Newsroom.co.nz

Govt learns of undisclosed Netsafe exit package through the media – again

Netsafe did not tell its ministerial paymasters that it spent nearly $20,000 on a secret payout to a senior advisor accused of assaulting a family member.

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Netsafe made secret exit payment to advisor accused of domestic assault

Victims' advocate calls for independent inquiry, as details emerge of another payout – to a former police inspector facing violence charges.

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine: UK justice ministry offers more support for ICC war crimes investigation

Dominic Raab to unveil new raft of measures, which include providing court with a specialist legal and police team

Bangkok Post

Disappearances bill nears final vote

A recent seminar on May 24 hosted by the Ministry of Justice together with international organisations highlighted various stepping stones in the struggle against torture and enforced disappearances in Thailand. There was detailed discussion of the draft national law on the issue. There was also analysis of Thailand's most recent…

Newsroom.co.nz

Family Court defends processes, protection orders

Principal Family Court Judge Jacquelyn Moran responds to an article by Associate Professor Carrie Leonetti on the Family Court's approach to some cases before it

Manchester Evening News

Forest Bank Prison is damned by inspectors despite beefing up security and major refurbishment

"Leaders show limited ambition to improve situation"

The Guardian - UK

‘We have been mistreated’: cousin of Whitehall cleaner who died speaks out

Vincente Gomes is a cousin and former colleague of Emanuel Gomes, who died after going into work with a fever

Daily Mirror

BBC confronts Tory over government cleaner who died after Partygate 'disrespect'

Emanuel Gomes, a cleaner at the Ministry of Justice, died in April 2020 after suffering suspected Covid symptoms. Boris Johnson's Chief of Staff Steve Barclay was asked how his family would feel

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