In a significant move aimed at addressing the ongoing crisis in the UK prison system, Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood has announced plans to grant magistrates the authority to impose custodial sentences of up to one year
With the Labour government planning to reform apprenticeships, Michael Butler and Chloe Sheppick, Director and Deputy Director, respectively, of the Professional Law Institute, discuss the existing difficulties with the solicitor apprenticeship degree that stop many higher education institutions providing this valuable offering