I must record that Lillian Ladele has lost her appeal in the religious discrimination case she brought against her employer, Islington Council, some time ago. She’s the registrar who, having been designated a civil partnerships registrar, refused to carry […]

If the Guardian’s right that News Group Newspapers have illegally hacked, or paid investigators to illegally hack, the mobile phone messages of celebrities, then those investigators and journalists may have committed the offence of unlawful interception under section […]

This case is about a civil action against the police, who shot dead an unarmed man when raiding his home to arrest him. The policeman who fired the shot was acquitted of murder and manslaughter on the judge’s direction; […]

I was a bit puzzled at first by the headline to this Times piece: a lawyer would be the last person I’d ask to guess the economic fallout from the credit crunch. But litigation is […]