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MPs are to demand urgent answers from the Home Office after it emerged that a Commonwealth citizen caught up in the collapse of outsourcing giant Carillion now faces a “Kafka-esque” battle to stay in the country - despite his company wanting him to stay on.
The Home Office has promised a ‘fundamental change’ in the way the country deals with domestic abuse. But does the political will exist to back up any change in the law with resources? James Millar talks to the minister in charge, Victoria Atkins, and MPs across the spectrum, about what needs to be done
A minority of UK men who pay to sexually access women’s bodies are driving this form of modern-day slavery. To end the exploitation and trafficking we must criminalise paying for sex, writes Gavin Shuker, the chair of the APPG on Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade
A child victim of a grooming gang does not exercise free will. That consent is still being taken into consideration by the police and the CPS in such cases is wrong, writes Lucy Allan
Institutional racism and the government’s ‘hostile environment’ policy have led to the criminalisation of a whole community, writes Naz Shah
Labour MP David Lammy has said that he is ‘appalled’ by the arrest of one of his constituents for a minor crime committed twenty years ago.
A former Labour general secretary seen as a hate figure by many on the left wing of the party has been given a peerage by Jeremy Corbyn.
The Bar Council has issued a response to the Bar Standards Board’s announcement yesterday of a new plan to tackle the unfair treatment of female barristers, and has highlighted the role that the Bar Council will need to play in informing steps taken by the BSB in this area.
Yesterday’s report from the Justice Select Committee highlighted concerns over plans to increase the small claims limit to £5,000 which, according to the Bar Council, could undermine access to justice for those injured in accidents.
By gaining the trust of the community and working together against knife-carriers, police can make stop and search more effective, says Lord Paddick
We need a long-term, multi-agency approach to knife crime which seeks to understand and prevent its underlying causes
Scotland has reduced knife crime by treating violence as a public health and social problem, says Joanna Cherry
Laura Bristow works to connect MPs to the public online. Constantly adapting to the fast-evolving world of social media, her job is an exciting mixture of the old and the new
Mental health is finally being given the significance and attention it rightly deserves. According to new Ipsos MORI research this month, concern about mental health has doubled in the last year alone; almost a third of the public are now concerned about it. And it’s seen as the second most important priority for health care funding.
Parts of the Metropolitan Police are still "institutionally racist" and young black people continue to be victimised by officers, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has said.
Doreen Lawrence’s life changed forever on the evening of 22 April 1993. Twenty-five years on from the murder of her son, Stephen, the Labour peer has ensured that Britain will never forget his name. But is society in a better place now than it was more than two decades ago? She talks to Sebastian Whale about the police, race relations and the Windrush scandal
Please find below a response to the Hackitt review from the Equality and Human Right Commission
Councils across the country will be handed millions of pounds to replace flammable tower block cladding in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy, Theresa May announced today.
Many Windrush migrants who have been wrongly deported after getting caught up in an illegal immigration crackdown will now be “dead or destitute”, a prominent Labour MP has warned.
A shocking 63 British citizens from the Windrush generation may have been wrongfully deported from the UK, Sajid Javid revealed today.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has produced a briefing for the Third Reading of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill
The Bar Council of England and Wales and the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) have written jointly to Prime Minister Theresa May, urging her to voice concerns over Turkey’s ongoing and large-scale prosecution of judges, lawyers, journalists and human rights defenders with the Turkish President when the two meet on Tuesday.
The head of MI5 has said sharing intelligence across Europe is more necessary than ever in order to tackle the growing threats of Islamist terrorism and Russian activity.
Social media is here to stay. It is our challenge to ensure that the reach and influence of these platforms is harnessed in the most positive ways possible, writes Norman Lamb
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