Elliot Tyler

On any street in any city, town, or village, you will find people who have – as part of the trials and tribul…

We were delighted to read the recent announcement that the winner of the first-ever Mike Guilfoyle Prize, an …

Seventy years ago, a man with learning difficulties said a four-word phrase (‘Let Him Have It’) and was subse…

When I had the first conversation about writing an article for Magistrate, I briefly asked myself if there wa…

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is a huge piece of legislation that's designed to increase the …

Jimmy McGovern knows his prisons: the landings, the noise, the drugs, and their problems. They are all vividl…

The government's 'discriminatory' crackdown on crime will 'compound discrimination and divide communities', t…

Half of people entering prison could have some form of neurodivergent condition including autism, brain injur…

Not a penny has been paid out in the last 12 months in compensation for the wrongly convicted under a scheme …

Hundreds of foreign nationals are being held in prison in solitary confinement under immigration powers locke…

The brother of Daniel Morgan has accused the Met Police commissioner of putting ‘every possible obstacle’ in …

Appeal judges yesterday quashed the convictions of three black men nearly five decades ago after the arrestin…

Criminal defence lawyers were urged to educate themselves at the launch of a guide designed to 'support legal…

Contrary to popular belief, defendants in criminal trials can come from all walks of life. Some people accuse…

There were renewed calls for a statutory right to 'access to justice' to enable people to have legal help wit…

Three-quarters of domestic abuse-related crimes reported to the police are being dropped, according to a watc…

The Government has apologised to rape victims for ‘systemic failings’ in the aftermath of a long-awaited revi…

The Home Secretary’s decision to use Napier barracks to accommodate vulnerable asylum seekers was unlawful an…

A change in the way computer evidence is treated in court is needed in the wake of the Post Office scandal, a…

Two former police officers and a solicitor have been acquitted of perverting the course of justice in a resul…

The government has increased the allowance prisoners receive on leaving prison for the first time in more tha…

Australian pathologists have raised concerns about the convictions of a number of men alleged to have shaken …

Almost four thousand prisoners have died as a result of the pandemic and more than half a million have tested…

It took a long time for the majority of the adult population to receive a vote in British elections. Women we…