The Latest Breaking News from the Law Commission

Energetic high court judge who became president of the family division and drove through reforms

Information such as age and nationality will generally not constitute contempt of court under proposed laws

Home secretary says Law Commission is looking into change amid row over case of alleged rape in Warwickshire

The Co-op is hoping to bring water cremation to UK customers in what it called the ‘biggest change to funerals in over 120 years’

Within hours of a driver ramming into a crowd at Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade, injuring 65 people, Merseyside Police shared in a press release that they had arrested a suspect. Unusually, the announcement included the race and nationality of the person arrested – a 53-year-old white British man.

‘Those participating in disorder were not policed more strongly because of their supposed political views but because they were throwing missiles’

The Home Affairs Committee published a new report which found the response by police forces to the summer riots was ‘entirely appropriate’.

Labour minister Lucy Rigby denied an accusation by Helen Grant that the Government accelerated conspiracy theories around the attack last year.

Report also criticises compensation system for people wrongly convicted of crimes in England and Wales