The Legal Service Board will look at how regulators can better tackle serious and wilful misconduct in the legal services industry - including through the introduction of higher fines.
Every crown and magistrates' courts in England and Wales can now access the 'Common Platform' system, enabling more efficient information-sharing in criminal justice cases.
Police forces have been drug testing individuals arrested for domestic abuse offences as part of a pilot to establish perpetrator profiles and offender rehabilitation opportunities to protect victims.
Dartmoor National Park Authority has won an appeal against a High Court ruling which held that members of the public were not permitted to wild camp on the moor without the permission of the landowner.