Your weekly update on the latest developments and debates in Parliament and across Whitehall. This week: record courts ...

The row was triggered after the Sentencing Council, which advises judges and magistrates on the complexities of prison terms ...

Lord William Hague vowed to champion free speech and warned against “comfort blankets of cancellation” as he was officially admitted as the 160th Chancellor of the University of Oxford. During his ...

Lord Chancellor has approved the appointment and reappointments of Parole Board Members. The Lord Chancellor has approved the ...

The Lord Chancellor's powers to appoint judges and Queen's Counsels appeared to be under fresh threat today following the "cash for wigs" affair. Lord Irvine has been accused of "damaging the ...

The Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, is set to get a £90,000-a-year pension when he retires, it was disclosed today. The Sun, under the front page headline "Insult", said that Lord Irvine would also ...

Judges tell Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood they have done nothing wrong by introducing different rules for ethnic ...

Universities must not be “comfort blankets of cancellation”, Lord Hague insisted in his inaugural speech as the new chancellor of Oxford University. The former Conservative Party leader ...

Lord William Hague vowed to champion free speech and warned against “comfort blankets of cancellation” as he was officially admitted as the 160th Chancellor of the University of Oxford.