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MYSTERIOUS: 10 - What They Never Told You

Jersey approves assisted dying law amid concerns over legislation backlog

The Isle of Man has seen a year-long wait for their Assisted Dying Bill to be granted royal assent

The Independent UK

Court backlog ‘absolutely dire’ and will get worse before it gets better, minister admits

David Lammy has pledged to fix the UK’s broken judicial system amid a spiralling case backlog

The Independent UK

Court backlog will take decade to fall to pre-Covid levels despite overhaul, says MoJ

Justice secretary says only his measures will stop backlog in England and Wales from increasing exponentially

The Guardian - UK

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David Lammy lifts cap on court sitting days in effort to cut backlog of cases

Criminal barristers welcome justice secretary’s move to remove limit on hearing days at crown courts in England and Wales

The Guardian - UK

Secret prison documents show government plan to tackle IPP scandal will fail

Exclusive: Damning projections reveal the government’s action plan to progress IPP prisoners is a ‘failure’, which will leave at least 500 prisoners languishing without release 18 years after the sentence was abolished

The Independent UK

Children who carry knives to get support earlier in England and Wales

David Lammy announces mandatory support and mentoring plan in wake of two stabbings at a school in Brent, north-west London

The Guardian - UK

The ‘immediate, mandatory’ intervention children will face if caught carrying a knife

Police will refer every child knife possession case to youth justice services in a bid to prevent reoffending

The Independent UK

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Cabinet rallies around embattled Starmer as Sarwar calls for him to quit

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said Sir Keir Starmer should go to prevent the ‘distraction’ in Westminster hitting his party’s election chances.

Evening Standard

Campaigners urge UK ministers to make music lyrics inadmissible in court

Art Not Evidence group wants change in law that currently allows lyrics by defendants to be presented as evidence of gang affiliation

The Guardian - UK

Defiant Starmer to take Labour message to country despite calls for him to quit over Mandelson

Downing Street says PM will be ‘out and about’ in the coming week ‘making the case for why [his] government is delivering for working people’

The Independent UK

Palestine Action latest: Labour MPs hit out at Starmer’s ‘draconian’ ban after High Court rules it unlawful

The Metropolitan Police said it will no longer arrest protesters despite proscription remaining in place

The Independent UK

‘Supermax-style units’ for most dangerous criminals to be introduced in England and Wales

David Lammy also tells MPs he will draw up legislation to stop prisoners using human rights laws to challenge tougher conditions

The Guardian - UK

Bus theft victim felt ‘so guilty’ after hero driver lost his job

More than 125,000 people have signed a petition in support

The Independent UK

London Assembly demands apology for sacked 'hero' bus driver as 137,000 people sign petition

David Lammy told the House of Commons: ‘I’m very grateful, Mark is of course a hero and deserves our support’

Evening Standard

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Meeting requested with David Lammy over Isle of Man assisted dying law ‘delay’

Alex Allinson said he wanted an assurance that the ‘rate of progress for assent is neither anomalous nor been subject to any artificial impediment’.

The Independent UK

One man’s struggle lights up a wider scandal

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: We urge ministers to read Haroon Ahmed’s story and to summon the courage to end the injustice of indefinite sentences for 2,400 other prisoners

Evening Standard

David Lammy's My London: dog walks in the park, letting loose at Spurs and trying to resist KFC

The Deputy Prime Minister on his favourite spots in the capital

Evening Standard

Klepto capital: How London became a dirty money hub

Kleptocrats and fraudsters of the world have been washing their illicit billions in the city. Rachael Burford looks at how we can clean up our reputation as a global laundromat

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The Guardian - UK

Starmer indicates he will not U-turn on plan to scrap some jury trials

Prime minister says move is crucial to delivering justice to victims of misogynist violence who ‘wait so long’

Evening Standard

UK condemns ‘brutal’ Iranian regime as Donald Trump sends armada to region

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy criticised Iran’s regime but declined to commit to banning the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The Independent UK

Angela Rayner ‘to back Andy Burnham standing as MP’ paving way for Westminster return

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has been seen as a rival to Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership

The Guardian - UK

Labour MP who was groomed asks colleagues to back judge-only trials

Exclusive: Natalie Fleet says power balance is with criminals not victims as delays make ‘hell of being raped’ worse

The Independent UK

Burnham warned not to ‘rock the boat’ with Starmer leadership challenge

Labour’s deputy prime minister David Lammy cautioned that his party – trailing Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the polls – could be forced to call an early general election if it changed leader

The Conversation

Starmer’s response to Trump’s Greenland outburst shows good old British pragmatism only goes so far

Having thus far taken a highly cautious line with the capricious Donald Trump, Keir Starmer broke with the US president this week over the latter’s desire to acquire Greenland.

Evening Standard

UK and Europe’s ‘displeasure’ prompted Trump’s Greenland U-turn, says Lammy

The row over Greenland has proved a major flashpoint in relations between the US and Europe.

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