Browsing: law

The family of a former mobile phone store manager who was found drowned days before his new Vodafone franchise was to open its doors is pressing…

Ruth Deech’s article opposing cohabitation law reform overlooks the reality faced by 3.5 million cohabiting couples in the UK who are not married (David Lammy’s proposed…

Andy Burnham will walk into No 10 on 20 July to a bulging in-tray of policies, proposals – and problems. One he may be less aware…

Pippa Crerar’s focus on action is right (Burnham’s apology over Gaza marks ‘reset moment’ as Labour seeks to win back progressive voters, 9 July). May we…

The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is not personally responsible for the mess that the government finds itself in with regard to the release from prison of…

Keen to fill his evenings after work as a young lawyer in an Essex solicitor’s office, Roy Goode, who left school at 16, decided he ought…

James Mackay, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, who has died aged 99, was unique in modern legal history in being made lord chancellor at the head of…

In 1985 Paul May, who has died aged 74 of a pulmonary embolism, became the chair of the Birmingham Six campaign. Six years later, the convictions…

An artificial intelligence law firm has won a case in an English court, in what is believed to be the first time a trial has been…

In a London court in 1670, a judge, livid with the jury, locked them away for two days without food, water or even a chamber pot.…