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Irish High Court Judge, Mrs Justice Bronagh O’Hanlon has, for the first time ever, approved an order to allow a liquidator to serve a person connected with a liquidated firm with papers through the social media site Li ...

Doctor who stood up for parents accused of killing their children and challenged existence of the syndrome could be struck off over her testimony. A leading doctor who acted as an expert witness for parents accused of killin ...

England’s first chief inspector of social care has said that the UK’s big care home chains are to face a tough new regime of corporate inspections to prevent financial problems from leading to poor or dangerous c ...

A report by former solicitor general Vera Baird has highlighted concerns over the effect of justice spending cuts on domestic abuse victims. Labour claims that one in five specialist refuges for women fleeing violent partner ...

A group of MPs, lawyers and campaigners have written to several newspapers to call for police bail to be capped at 28 days. They warn that innocent people are being left on pre-charge bail for years in some cases. Pre-charge ...

On 03 October 2014 the Council of the Nursing and Midwifery Council approved the following proposed  changes to their Fitness to Practise (FtP) Rules and Education, Registration and Registration Appeals Rules: Introdu ...

BY JULIE NORRIS, SIAN JONES As complaints to voluntary regulators rise, it’s time to toughen up the regime and seek better regulation for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and counsellors, write Julie Norris and Sian Jo ...

Too many people are being jailed unnecessarily, according to Labour peer Lord Harris, who is heading a review into prison suicides. His findings are expected to be presented next summer. Ahead of the report’s release h ...

Under new draft guidelines, doctors, nurses and midwives have been told to be honest with patients and apologise when mistakes are made. The joint proposals from the General Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Coun ...

John Harding, a partner and Claire Hegarty, a solicitor in the criminal law team at Kingsley Napley, argue for a change to bail conditions rules to allow for time limits on police pre-charge bail to be put in place. This wou ...

New government figures reveal that thousands of disabled and elderly people are being restrained in care homes and hospitals. Data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre shows that at least 21,600 Deprivation of ...

Specialist investigators are being sent to law firms of all sizes across the country in response to mounting concerns they are failing to fulfill obligations to report suspicious transactions. The National Crime Agency and o ...