Justice Matters

Are Birmingham’s Intensive Supervision Courts successfully turning women offenders’ lives around? Chloe Ashley talks to District Judge Michelle Smith 

Lawyers Who Care is the world’s first ever legal mentoring organisation for care-experienced people. Co-founders Lucy Barnes and Kate Aubrey-Johnson introduce this bold new social mobility initiative 

Mark Neale, Director General of the Bar Standards Board, offers an update on the Equality Rules consultation

Imposing a professional obligation to act in a way that advances equality, diversity and inclusion is the wrong way to achieve this ambition, says Nick Vineall KC 

The desire to enlarge the scope of the rule of law is understandable but where is the line to be drawn? asks Raymond Wacks 

An alarming gap in social workers’ knowledge of coercive and controlling behaviour compromises the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable individuals, say Joy Brereton KC and Lucy Logan Green 

Tom Cosgrove KC looks at the government’s radical planning reform and the opportunities and challenges ahead for practitioners 

From no-platforming to mass protests – where does the law sit on what is happening in our universities? Azeem Suterwalla reports 

For every £1 spent on free specialist legal advice, there’s an estimated saving to the public purse of £2.71. Rhiannon Du Cann reports on research showing the positive domino effect of funding the free legal advice sector  

Following the initial riots, more public information should have been put out concerning the charges and sentences offenders could have faced, says Sir Nicholas Mostyn