Periods after which convicted criminals no longer have to declare their past offending to be significantly cut, says Kenneth Clarke.

At least 20,000 people have been wrongly labelled as criminals or accused of more serious offences because of blunders by the police and the Criminal Records Bureau.

A businessman accused of being the mastermind behind an alleged £100m ‘Ponzi’ scheme was warned he faced a jail sentence after admitting charges of fraud and deception. OK, this was a big one but Ponzis are hardly unusual. I’ve been invited into one or two even in my very limited business life. But here’s the

Hartnett wants the citizenry to stop giving cash to their cleaners, gardeners, and to small tradesmen and other potential tax cheats and economic criminals so that they can no longer avoid paying taxes. Hartnett’s vision of Britain is a society of snoops and denunciators. “Households have a duty to ensure that other people do not evade paying their share of tax. The people who ...

Criminals will only be able to claim compensation for being victims of crime in "exceptional circumstances", under proposals by the justice secretary.

Convicted criminals will be monitored 24 hours a day by satellite under moves being considered by ministers, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Convicted criminals will be monitored 24 hours a day by satellite under moves being considered by ministers.

Criminals will only be able to claim compensation for being victims of crime in "exceptional circumstances", under proposals by the justice secretary.

The country's top prosecutor has promised "robust" action against criminals who target war memorials.

Organised criminals are depriving exchequer of more than £1bn of excise duties a year by diverting exports