Government must demonstrate it can ‘expand capacity’ in magistrates’ court, Justice Committee cautions
The Justice Committee has welcomed the government’s decision to roll back on jury reforms, but has issued new warnings over the burden being placed on magistrates’ courts, saying planned recruitment of magistrates is “unrealistic”. Last week Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government confirmed it has mostly scrapped plans to remove juries tabled by Sie Keir Starmer’s […]
The next, and last chapter: recording life stories becomes part of later-life planning
Former celebrity interviewer Gregory Cartwright, now operating as Everseed Studio, considers why a service barely established in the UK is set to become a familiar part of later-life planning, and why the profession is more than ready for its arrival. What do we keep of a person, beyond what they owned? It’s a question that’s […]