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29 July 2024

  • Members of the International Court of Justice in court dress walk in single file behind a long desk

    UK should stop arming Israel after ICJ advisory ruling, top lawyer says

  • Roger Hallam, Dr. Larch Maxey and Mike Lynch-White pose for photographs as they leave Isleworth Crown Court

    Campaign groups call on Home Office to stop ‘steady erosion’ of protest rights

28 July 2024

  • Two black African soldiers in camouflage holding guns and surrounded by rocket-propelled grenades seen on top of a vehicle

    Girls as young as nine gang-raped by paramilitaries in Sudan – report

  • A smiling young woman wearing a hijab

    Ruqia was murdered by the man she was forced to wed. Her mother has now been jailed over the marriage

  • Stock image of police van and police tape

    Labour urged to reform joint enterprise law to stop ‘systemic injustice’

  • Eva Wiseman

    The Eva Wiseman column
    Women’s prisons have served their time. They should be abolished

    Eva Wiseman

27 July 2024

  • Illustration showing a person with head in hands over background of a clock and numbers

    Starting salaries are £180,000 – but do young lawyers believe the hours, stress and burnout are worth it?

    Tales of poor mental health are forcing change on the legal profession as recruits fight back against competitive culture, with some even abandoning the long-enshrined ambition to ‘make partner’

26 July 2024

  • A supporter of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation hereditary chiefs

    Canada owes First Nations billions after making ‘mockery’ of treaty deal, top court rules

  • Royal Courts of Justice, London.

    Woman loses appeal over child’s birth certificate after ex-wife had sex with donor

  • A Just Stop Oil protest on an overhead gantry of the M25 near London in November 2022.

    Was the jailing of Just Stop Oil protesters fair?

  • Shabana Mahmood visit to HMP Bedford.

    What needs to be done on probation

  • Britain drops its challenge to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders

  • Labour halts Tory law on freedom of speech in English universities

  • At last, the chance to legalise assisted dying in the UK – and end the untold, unnecessary anguish

    Polly Toynbee

  • Why is violence against women only getting worse? The answer doesn’t lie with Andrew Tate

    Gaby Hinsliff

25 July 2024

  • UK To Release Prisoners Early To Alleviate Overcrowding<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 12: A general view of HM Prison Wandsworth on July 12, 2024 in London, England. The country's new justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, announced today that the government will release thousands of prisoners early to alleviate overcrowding. Under the new policy, prisoners on "standard determinate sentences" will be released after serving 40% of their sentences, rather than 50%. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

    Sunak rejected advice to release prisoners early a year ago

  • Spanish NGO rescues 176 irregular migrants in international waters<br>CARRARA - ITALY, OCTOBER 4 : Survived migrants wait to be disembarked from the ship who were rescued by the Spanish NGO 'Open Arms' on October 4, 2023 in Carrara, Italy. About 176 migrants of 14 different nationalities from Syria, Bangladesh, Sudan, Eritrea, Palestine, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Egypt, Chad, Senegal and Mali were rescued by 'Open Arms' who carried out 3 rescue operations at the international waters of the Central Mediterranean sea. (Photo by Jose Colon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Opinion
    Don’t look away! Why writers need to shout about Africa’s migration crisis

    Samuel Kọ́láwọlé

24 July 2024

  • The Royal Courts of Justice in London.

    Labour delays proposals to ban oppressive Slapps lawsuits

    Labour justice minister in Lords says there is ‘need to protect access to justice’ for legitimate claims
  • A very heavily made-up person, with painted-on eyebrows, bright pink lips and eyelids, and outrageously large eyelashes, with long brown hair.

    Rights and freedom
    Transfemicide becomes a crime in a ‘watershed’ moment for Mexico City

    Galvanized by the 2016 murder of trans sex worker Paola Buenrostro, activists applaud law as critical for feeling safe
  • close-up of white man wearing suit

    A genocidal war criminal will address Congress. As a congressman, I’m outraged

    Jamaal Bowman
    Netanyahu’s joint address is directly undermining the will of the overwhelming majority of Americans who want peace
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