Legal updates

9 Mar 2023

New Pre-Charge Bail Statutory Guidance Offers Practitioners Some Benefits but Presents Many Problems

Article
9 Mar 2023

NRM: A move towards local decision making

Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)
8 Mar 2023

The Nationality and Borders Act 2022: Yet Another Setback for Victims of Modern Slavery

Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)
21 Feb 2023

Further MOJ Guidance on Remand to Local Authority Accommodation

Article
14 Feb 2023

Now you see it, now you don’t: Deterrence no longer features in the official sentencing guidance for children

Article
14 Feb 2023

When might a custodial sentence of less than two years be suspended?

Article
13 Feb 2023

Youth Justice Board publishes annual statistics 2021-2022 highlighting an increase in the number of arrests and continued overrepresentation of Black children

Article
3 Feb 2023

Intensive Supervision and Surveillance: New YJB Case Management Guidance Encourages More Flexibility

Article
30 Jan 2023

Lack of secure accommodation – a damning judgment

Secure accomodation
27 Jan 2023

High Court finds District Judge correct to retain jurisdiction of a rape case despite defendant being 18 at start of trial

Sexual offences
12 Dec 2022

A step in the wrong direction? New NPCC Guidelines on the cautioning and charging of Knife Crime

Article
30 Nov 2022

YJLC Legal Guide on Sexting

Sexting