Emily Dugan

Leading barristers describe justice secretary’s claims as ‘cynical and inaccurate’ — and Angela Rayner is set to join rebellion among Labour MPs

David Lammy has been accused by senior barristers of misrepresenting figures about rape cases collapsing in a “cynical” attempt to push through the abolition of half of all jury trials.

Labour wants to give magistrates’ courts more sentencing power with no automatic chance to challenge their rulings

David Lammy wants to scrap many jury trials and replace them with magistrates’ hearings, but a visit to the courts reveals deep problems

A family court will decide the parents’ access to their child, which is severely restricted, in a case said to involve a rare form of child abuse

Both parents were arrested more than a year ago on suspicion of a rare form of child abuse. The mother’s visits to the child must still be supervised

After Paul Quinn is convicted of rape, the innocent man who was jailed for 17 years tells The Sunday Times: ‘I feel like I can breathe a little easier today’

Paul Quinn has finally been convicted of the crime for which Malkinson spent 17 years in jail. Now the full story can be told, from Quinn’s depraved past to a fateful knock at the door

The man who spent 17 years in jail for Paul Quinn’s crime does not blame the victim. We’ve both been conned by police, he says in his first major interview since this month’s verdict

Evidence destroyed, clues ignored, criminals used as witnesses: the IPOC is investigating possible misconduct