Speed cameras: how enforcement works and where the money goes
Speed camera fines have gone straight to the Treasury since 2007, not to councils or police, and the system's real economics now run…
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Jury service: what actually happens when the summons arrives
Around 180,000 people are summoned for jury service in England and Wales each year, into a process of waiting rooms, strict secrecy rules…
Sarah Mitchell
Freedom of information: how the Act works and how it gets worked around
Anyone can demand recorded information from public bodies for free, and the gap between that right on paper and in practice is where most…
Sarah Mitchell
How missing person investigations are prioritised
Every missing person report in the UK is graded no-apparent, low, medium or high risk within hours, and that grade, reviewed by an…
Daily Junction Editorial Team
What an inquest can decide, and what it never will
Inquests answer four narrow questions about a death and are barred from assigning criminal or civil blame, which families often learn…
Sarah Mitchell
Hung juries and majority verdicts: what happens when twelve people cannot agree
When a Crown Court jury deadlocks, the Juries Act 1974 permits 10-2 majority verdicts after two hours, a Watson direction may follow, and a…
Daily Junction Editorial Team
What reporters can and cannot tell you about a criminal trial
Contempt law, automatic anonymity rules and reporting restrictions shape every court story you read, and explain the strange gaps that…
Sarah Mitchell
What a police caution actually means for your record
A caution requires an admission of guilt, sits on the Police National Computer until your hundredth birthday, and can surface on enhanced…
Sarah Mitchell
Court and tribunal fee changes arrive in July 2026
The Ministry of Justice says a package of HMCTS fee changes includes 170 inflation-linked increases, 27 larger catch-up increases and four…
Daily Junction Editorial Team