I feel it is a distraction to scapegoat "evil private landlords" for our housing  problems; the problems are entirely due to the last 30 years of governments Housing policy, which uses housing benefit to subsidies our private rented  consumer service. Average house price of £237,000 in the southeast of England is 10 to 16  times average local salaries [1].  Two and a half...

A new bill which could aid publication of a secret legal report on the Lockerbie bomber may fail to work properly, it is claimed.

MPs and peers are are urging the government to bring in a law in England and Wales against stalking - as is already the case in Scotland.

An unavoidable choice: More or less EU control over UK policing and criminal law

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke says there are "undoubted dangers" in re-drafting shared parenting law

Andrea Leadsom MP: New governments ought to be able to opt out of EU laws signed by their predecessors; Commission pushes for intergovernmental treaty to be incorporated into EU law

Norman Lamb, a former lawyer and key adviser to Nick Clegg, has replaced Ed Davey as the employment relations and postal affairs minister. He will be tasked with reducing the burden of employment law on business, among other things, picking up where Mr Davey left off.

Ministers plan to rewrite the law in an attempt to ensure that fathers get improved access to their offspring after a marriage breaks down, The Telegraph can reveal.

Ministers plan to rewrite the law in an attempt to ensure that fathers get improved access to their offspring after a marriage breaks down, the Telegraph can reveal.

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