Being told to attend a police interview can feel daunting. Whether you’ve been arrested or invited to attend voluntarily, it’s completely normal to feel unsure about what will happen next.
In the UK, people who are serving a prison sentence are normally deported after they finish their sentence, not during it — but there are a few important rules and exceptions.
If your child has been called to youth court, it's completely natural to feel overwhelmed or even confused. It’s a situation that no parent ever wants to be in. But knowing what to expect and how to support your child can make a big difference.
In his report, about how to tackle the 76,000 case Crown Court backlog, Brian Leveson has put forward the idea of a new sort of Crown Court.
Being taken to a police station can be intimidating, but the UK law guarantees you a range of important rights designed to protect your dignity, health and legal position.
Few things that it is impossible to imagine can be worse than being locked up in a foreign country when no-one speaks your language, whether it be the court, the police, the prosecution, the fellow prisoners and even your own lawyer.
"Is your client fit to plead?" is a question often bounded about between advocates at court. Many people latch on to the phase fit to plead in the hope that it may be a quick exit strategy from a potentially difficult trial.
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