court staff, barristers and solicitors to just keep waiting. Every week the backlog gets bigger. Leading barrister Mary Prior KC is sad at the crumbling system she navigates every day.

According to a new report, there are dozens of Sharia courts operating in the UK that deliver religious verdicts on marriage and family life. Such religious courts allow men to end their marriages by ...

The chief inspector of the CPS says "radical" action is needed to overhaul the criminal justice system and fix the crown court backlog - as a sexual abuse survivor says her experience shows the ...