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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with barrister Lucy Reed, on opening the secretive family courts to scrutiny

The family courts, which make orders for children to be taken into care, have long been a hidden world, but that's now changing. Neil talks to barrister and transparency campaigner Lucy about why this matters, and how the system needs to change.

Alex Turner George Colwey Neil Maggs
Alex Turner, George Colwey and Neil Maggs

Opinion

Illustration of an individual sitting at a desk with head in hands, and a door with bars visible in the background.

School exclusion, child imprisonment and a state of punishment

Chris Bagley
Chris Bagley

People's History

‘An intolerable anachronism’: it’s 60 years since the last hanging took place in Bristol

Eugene Byrne
Eugene Byrne
Adult man standing in front of empty wooden bookcases.

Interviews

Bristol’s top family judge stepping down, to launch project to keep people out of court

Judge Stephen Wildblood lifts the lid on a crisis in public law as he explains his plans to help families get support at community level, out of court.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Opinion

‘This is how we can scrap crime without doing the time’

Delroy Hibbert
Delroy Hibbert

Reports

Police officer who Tasered Ras Judah in face cleared of misconduct

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

City

Policewoman who Tasered Ras Judah found not guilty of assault

But PC Claire Boddie faces disciplinary action

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Reports

PC Claire Boddie on trial for tasering Ras Judah: the story so far

The police officer who tasered Easton man Ras Judah will appear in Salisbury Magistrates Court tomorrow (18 May) charged with common assault.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

City

Private probation companies are sending more people to jail. But not for committing crimes

Outsourced providers in the Bristol area are under heavy fire for sucking up millions in public money, but failing on public safety and criminal justice. 

Maria da Silva

Bristol and Beyond

What’s the Human Rights Act ever done for you?

The Conservatives think it’s another unwanted European import. Will is a trainee solicitor at leading human rights and public law firm Deighton Pierce Glynn, Bristol.

Will Russell

City

Banged up in HMP Bristol

Adam Cantwell-Corn caught up with Governor of HMP Bristol, Andrea Albutt, and ex-con and prison campaigner, Ben Gunn, to find out whether one of society’s...

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn