The Attorney General has blamed the collapse of the alleged Chinese spying case on “out of date” UK espionage laws which he ...

His appearance comes in a round of hearings by the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy as it investigates the ...

The government's chief legal adviser says the trial would have gone ahead if new legislation had been in force.

Back to the collapsed China spy case. Attorney General Lord Hermer is this morning giving evidence to the joint ...

Attorney General Lord Hermer has blamed the collapse of the Chinese spying prosecution on outdated espionage laws in the UK.

Criticising the Government over the collapse of the China spying trial damages Britain’s national security, Lord Hermer has ...

Lord Hermer also said that he is ‘extremely concerned’ about the impact the case may have had on the public’s trust in the UK ...

A senior commons committee is looking at why the case collapsed just weeks before a trial was due to go ahead.

Exclusive: Lord Hermer is a defendant in a civil suit he drafted and represented until weeks before the 2024 election, which ...

Attorney General Lord Richard Hermer says it would be 'unfair' to call the trial collapse a farce or a mistake ...

Although ministers had insisted that the statements were only based on the previous Conservative administration’s position on ...

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