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Following the High Anti-Corruption Court’s decision to confiscate the Ukrainian assets of sanctioned Russian oligarch Myron Horilovskyi, publications dedicated to the case began to disappear from the internet.

Within one year, seven men died at the ‘squalid’ and ‘inhumane’ prison.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp has vowed to abolish immigration tribunals as part of plans to be announced by the Conservatives.

The $6.7 million fine ASB has agreed to pay for insufficiently vetting billions of dollars of transactions for money laundering is putting the spotlight on the law in New Zealand.

The backlog of asylum appeal cases has reached a new record high, according to Ministry of Justice figures.

Thousands of prison cell windows will be fitted with steel grilles to stop drones from flooding jails with drugs, weapons, and phones, the Government has announced.

Prison officers are “lambs to the slaughter” going into UK jails that are actually run by veteran inmates, an ex-prison governor has warned.

Parents and guardians could face jail time if their children break the law, David Lammy has revealed, as the government unveiled a "long overdue" shake-up of the youth justice system.

The manhunt for the wrongly-released sex offender at the center of the Epping asylum hotel protests cost taxpayers more than £150,000, a review has found.

There are concerns that hundreds more inmates and staff may have been exposed to hazardous levels of cancer-causing gas, with the Ministry of Justice now investigating 42 prison and probation sites, The Independent can reveal.

Data from the Ministry of Justice indicate that there were 80,203 outstanding cases at the end of last year, which is an 8% increase from the 74,106 recorded in the previous 12 months.

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says he is closely watching the UK’s plan to scrap jury trials for offences carrying sentences of less than three years, a key change the New Zealand Government is also considering to help speed up court processes.

David Lammy has been accused of misrepresenting rape figures by senior barristers in a bid to fast track the abolition of some jury trials.

Justice Secretary David Lammy is preparing major criminal-justice reforms that would reserve jury trials for only the most serious offences — including rape, murder and manslaughter — according to multiple media reports.

Online pornography showing women being choked is set to be banned after a Government crackdown on ’violent’ content.

A Labour councillor who called for far-right activists’ throats to be cut at an anti-racism rally has been found not guilty of encouraging violent disorder by a jury.

Three fatalities in Tunisian prisons within one week in July have alarmed rights groups about prison conditions and alleged mistreatment, leading to urgent appeals for government investigations.

A 26-year-old man who was let out of prison on the government’s early release scheme stabbed a man the day he was let out.

A prison spent almost £8,000 on a fish tank for the reception while conditions for inmates were ‘squalid’.

The killer of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel has been busted in prison for allegedly dealing drugs and having an illegal mobile phone.

The UK’s top prison inspector has warned drug drones are a national security threat, as inmates burn holes in their windows to receive deliveries.

Next to a vandalised wire fence opposite HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, 28-year-old Beatrice Auty brushes away tears. The memories of her time inside the jail are too much to bear.

The Ministry of Justice has admitted 37 prisoners were wrongly released under Labour’s plans to reduce overcrowding in jails.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ), said it had "inherited a justice system in crisis".