These are the most recent criminal cases involving people from the Wakefield district heard at Leeds Magistrates’ Court.

A pair of teenage boys - aged 16 and 14 - have been charged with rape, false imprisonment, actual bodily harm and suffocation ...

"PC Jo Lavender, now aged 43, had already been charged with six counts of rape and two counts of indecent assault on a girl ...

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Dr and Ms Hawkins received £2.8m - the largest compensation settlement in a stillbirth clinical negligence claim in NHS history, five years after the death of Harriet. NUH was also given a fine of ...

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The following cases involving people from the Wakefield district were heard at Leeds Magistrates’ Court.

Judge previously ruled that four of her offspring should be put up for adoption amid domestic violence concerns ...

This article was updated on June 20 The Supreme Court on Monday added two new cases to its docket for the 2025-26 term, both involving efforts to litigate disputes in federal rather than state courts.

HERE is a round up of some of the cases heard at the Isle of Wight Magistrates' Court, for the week commencing June 16, 2025. Curtis Foot, 33, of Tree Fields, Ryde. Three counts of assault by ...

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