A split Supreme Court holds the section 5 personal injury exception removes Bahrain's immunity where spyware was remotely installed on UK computers, Lords Leggatt and Burrows dissenting.
What IPP sentences were, why abolition in 2012 left thousands in prison, how the Parole Board mechanism works, and what the UN's arbitrary detention opinion changes.
Community care legal aid has not collapsed through lack of demand. New research shows Legal Help matter starts down more than 80% as providers narrow what they take…
The Sentencing Act progression model now comes into force on 1 October 2026, and rape, serious child sex offences and grooming offences have been excluded from it by…
The Sentencing Act progression model comes into force on 1 October 2026, changing automatic release points for standard determinate sentences. Thirty-nine offences were excluded on 4 August.
Disappearing messages on work devices survived judicial review in R (BB) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, but the policy was lawful only because of its export…
A seven-justice Supreme Court panel has unanimously overruled Cheshire West in [2026] UKSC 16, replacing the acid test with a multifactorial assessment of what amounts to deprivation of…
The Supreme Court has granted Huda Ammori permission to appeal on one of two grounds against the Court of Appeal ruling upholding proscription. The appeal has been expedited.
The Prime Minister paused the Sentencing Act 2026 release changes on 25 July pending an urgent review. The commencement regulations have not been revoked, so 2 September still…