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'Poison pill' privatisation contracts could cost £300m-£400m to cancel

11 Sep 2014:
'Unprecedented' clauses guarantee firms 10 years of profits even if new government scraps controversial probation contracts
Diary: From Chris Grayling with love … The booby traps being laid in the justice department

10 Sep 2014: Hugh Muir: He’ll cost us, even when he’s gone
Chris Grayling used 'bluff and bully' tactics to push legal aid cuts, court told

8 Sep 2014: Justice secretary accused of coordinating 'caricature of fairness', at judicial review challenge brought by criminal solicitors
The Observer view on the desperate need for prison reform

7 Sep 2014: Observer editorial: Justice secretary Chris Grayling can no longer ignore these shocking facts about the state of our jails
Prison lights-out policy could worsen mental health crisis, campaigners say

19 Aug 2014:
Plans by Chris Grayling to turn out lights and televisions in cells at 10.30pm are claimed to be dangerous to young offenders
How can Chris Grayling deny our prisons crisis?

19 Aug 2014: Simon Jenkins: First thoughts: Successive prisons inspectors sound the alarm about our overcrowded, violent jails, but British politicians don’t want to kick the habit
Grayling denies prison service crisis as inmate numbers rise

19 Aug 2014: Justice secretary says service is having to cope with hundreds of sex offenders convicted after Savile scandal
Prison inmates held without electricity or running water for over two days

13 Aug 2014:
HMP Doncaster, run by private firm Serco, criticised by report as Labour hosts summit on 'growing crisis in Britain's jails'
UK condemnation of Israel would threaten peace hopes, says minister

3 Aug 2014:
Chris Grayling defends Cameron's neutral stance after Labour leader blasts PM's 'silence' over plight of Palestinians
David Cameron backs prisoners' reading restrictions

1 Aug 2014: The prime minister has refused request to meet campaigners against ban on inmates receiving books from outside
PM's tennis match with wife of former Putin minister will go ahead, say Tories

31 Jul 2014: Chris Grayling defends tennis match, which will be played in return for £160,000 donation to Tories from Lubov Chernukhin
Labour would face 'shopping list of demands' from unions, say Tories

31 Jul 2014: Justice secretary Chris Grayling to claim that an Ed Miliband-led government would borrow '£166bn more than we would'
Send Chris Grayling books, urge campaigners against prison ban

30 Jul 2014: News: The Howard League's campaign to restore prisoners' right to receive reading material is asking supporters to despatch books to the justice secretary
Volunteers need free childcare – not Chris Grayling’s shameless PR stunt

21 Jul 2014: Lisa Nandy: The idea that ‘litigation culture’ deters an army of local heroes is nonsense. This government has no intention of tackling the real barriers
Has compensation culture made us too quick to blame others?

Poll, 20 Jul 2014:
Chris Grayling says a compensation culture has made us 'too inclined to blame someone else' when things go wrong, and is introducing a bill to prevent people suing when they do 'something dumb'. Tell us if you think he's right.