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Charles Taylor verdict today
Last Updated: 26/04/2012 06:33:27
International judges are due to give a verdict in the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.
F1 teams expect Bahrain Grand Prix to be called off
Last Updated: 11/04/2012 15:26:20
Violence between protesters and security forces erupted again on Bahrain's streets earlier this year after unrest during the 2011 Arab Spring led to last year's Bahrain GP being cancelled. Now, the F1 teams expect another cancellation.
Jurors who abscond face long arm of the law
Last Updated: 09/04/2012 20:47:10
Judges are cracking down on absent jurors. A woman who recently took a holiday in Malta when in the middle of a trial is facing a longer break than she bargained for at Her Majesty's pleasure.
Woman jailed for sending nude photos asks to be deported
Last Updated: 06/04/2012 10:52:23
'The National newspaper' of Abu Dhabi has published a shocking story which demosnstrates the shocking reality of courts in some counties..
Opposition grows to Government secret court scheme
Last Updated: 04/04/2012 09:01:24
The proposals were set out in a government Green Paper last month and followed legal action against members of the security services over claims they were complicit in the torture of UK residents.
Net monitoring laws 'to be brought in soon'
Last Updated: 03/04/2012 14:19:56
The Home Office says new laws to allow the monitoring of all emails, texts and web use in the UK will be brought in "as soon as parliamentary time allows".
Student who abused Fabrice Muamba on Twitter prison sentence 'excessive'
Last Updated: 02/04/2012 09:59:24
Thomas Hammarberg, the European commissioner for human rights, calls Liam Stacey's 56-day sentence excessive partly due to the fact that, Twitter is not 'traditional media.'
Cameron and Obama to discuss extradition treaty
Last Updated: 15/03/2012 08:33:08
British and US officials are to examine the implementation of the extradition treaty, introduced in the aftermath of 9/11, amid criticisms that it is weighted against British citizens. The prime minister raised the matter with Obama after an intensification of criticisms of the treaty in the wake of the extradition of Christopher Tappin, a retired Kent businessman, to the US.
Gay marriage consultation begins
Last Updated: 15/03/2012 08:22:41
The government is set to launch a 12-week consultation on allowing gay couples in England and Wales to marry. The proposal is being fiercely opposed by some senior church figures, as well as a number of Conservative MPs.
Dictator faces his Waterloo
Last Updated: 14/03/2012 09:20:07
The verdict in the trial of Congolese alleged warlord Thomas Lubanga is due at world's first permanent war crimes tribunal at The Hague
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