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New legislation targeting domestic abuse is likely to have little impact if not accompanied by significant additional money, the Law Society of England and Wales has warned.

Youth justice grants which fund the work of youth offending teams have been halved from £145 million in 2010/11 to £71.5 million in 2018/19.

Pennsylvania is the only statethat fails to provide any state funding towards the representation of defendants who are too poor to pay for private attorneys. The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Pennsylvania have therefore filed a friend-of-the-court brief asking the state Supreme Court to hold Pennsylvania’s capital punishment system in violation of the state constitution.

The Electoral Reform Society has responded to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee's inquiry on fake news and disinformation.