JUSTICE Secretary Jack Straw has defied calls by the mother of James Bulger to release more details about why her son's killer is back in prison.

JUSTICE Secretary Jack Straw met James Bulger's mother yesterday to discuss the return to jail of her son's killer, Jon Venables

Yesterday’s Times revealed that Jack Straw signed a secret deal with Libya three years ago guaranteeing the Libyan killer of a British policewoman will never be brought to justice in Britain: The Libyan killer of a British policewoman will never be brought to justice in Britain after a secret deal approved by Jack Straw. The Foreign

Jack Straw the Justice Secretary is to give up all responsibility for the release of prisoners in the wake of the Ronnie Biggs row.

Jack Straw, the justice secretary, today signalled a more punitive approach to prisons by attacking the "criminal justice lobby" for putting the needs of offenders before those of victims. In a speech on prison policy to the Royal Society of Arts, Straw said it was time to reclaim the "unfashionable" language of punishment and reform and make clear that the justice system is there to serve victims...

Jack Straw's got a lot of explaining to do. The Justice Secretary is increasingly being bitten himself by the legislation on party funding which, in 2000, he pushed through Parliament as Home Secretary. In his new role as Justice Secretary Mr Straw is again responsible for overseeing party finance. Indeed MPs are next expected to debate his new funding bill on 9 February. Yet Mr Straw himself...

Justice secretary Jack Straw is under pressure over a £3,000 payment made by an energy company to an event in his honour.

The election watchdog has been asked to investigate Jack Straw the justice secretary over a donation from an energy firm which was seeking to invest in his constituency.

Ever since Gordon Brown brought back the spin-meisters behind the Blair years we have started to see the same tortured doublespeak from Government. Yesterday, Jack Straw - our "Justice" Secretary - said he was sick of  the criminal justice lobby putting the rights of criminals ahead of their victims. This was unusual to say the least seeing as how Jack Straw has been to the fore in promoting ...

Is Jack Straw having a laugh? The justice minister has ordered the cancellation of a comedy workshop for prisoners at a top security jail. The course, which started on Monday at Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire, was supposed to run for eight days. Jack Straw, Secretary of State for Justice, described the course as “totally unacceptable”. This is all rather