VIDEO: Justice Committee

Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer tells Channel 4 News there has to be a 'sea change' in how issue of credibility is managed in cases like the abuse scandal

The Guardian describes how "on a cloudy May afternoon, terror struck again in the UK... brutally, out of nowhere, and with chilling and horrific effect". It says people's lives were changed forever when a man, believed to be an off-duty soldier, ...

LONDON: Controversial plans to protect the identity of suspects arrested by police were in disarray last night after the director of public prosecutions (DPP) called for more wriggle room to name suspects before they were charged. Keir Starmer, who ...

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By Katie Russell Barbara Hewson's ill-informed and damaging online article regarding Operation Yewtree was shocking on many levels, not least because it came from an apparently 'top' barrister. By opening with the assertion that ongoing legal ...

The director of public prosecutions says he wants "wriggle room" to ask police to name some suspects who have been arrested, despite new guidelines that they normally would not be named. Keir Starmer told MPs he would expect to discuss with the ...

Lawyers face serious criticism after a CPS inquiry into the aborted trials of 12 police officers involved in the investigation of murdered prostitute Lynette White, Channel 4 News has learned. A report into the collapse of the country's biggest ever ...

Social workers, tasked with protecting vulnerable children, should not be drawn into the culture of disbelief around asylum. A report published today says that hundreds of vulnerable children have been put at risk because social workers and others ...

It's been a scattato couple of months for Parliament, what with the Easter break, prorogation and, next week, Whitsun. And honourable members and noble lords are off on another break next week, returning on 3 June. But they do manage to cram in a ...