Criminal Bar Association to ballot workers over call for legal aid reforms
The Criminal Bar Association of England and Wales is set to ballot members this month, over government inaction on legal aid.
New CCTV guidelines fall short in ensuring police accountability
A new set of guidelines for the use of CCTV facial recognition by police has been criticised as too broad and non-specific. The Surveillance Camera Code of Practice is to be updated for the first time in eight years.
Three of the Stockwell six have their convictions overturned 49 years later
Three black men who were wrongfully jailed almost 50 years ago have had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal.
89 politicians in Mexico murdered leading up to midterm elections
At least 89 Mexican politicians have been murdered in the last 200 days, 35 of which were candidates for the midterm elections. There has also been over 700 attacks, according to security consultancy firm Etellekt, including threats, beatings and kidnappings.
Sharp increase in modern slavery during the pandemic
Amid the pandemic, reports of sexual and criminal exploitation have severely increased, as stated in new figures calculating the extent of modern slavery and trafficking in the UK. Compared with the preceding year, cases of sexual exploitation, which includes people held captive in brothels and those strong-armed into prostitution, increased by a quarter in 2020. Almost a quarter of cases concerned children.
