This week lawyers are delivering their closing arguments in the UK’s biggest ever class action lawsuit relating to a dam ...

Kim Leadbeater, the MP behind the terminal ill adults bill, has proposed that a panel of experts decide on assisted deaths instead of courts ...

The 'Mersey Ripper', who was at the centre of one of the region's most shocking murder cases, appeared before the Court of ...

A Ugandan High Court Judge has been found guilty of illegally bringing a young girl to the UK to be her unpaid housemaid.

The Crown Court backlog has spiralled to more than 73,000 cases with the system mired in chronic delays and some trials being ...

Justice Mugambe, 49, also a High Court judge in Uganda, was found guilty of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a ...

A former client of a leading family law firm should be allowed to sue over its alleged failure to advise about its own ...

A report into how victims are hit by the backlog discovered nearly half of those surveyed – 48% – had a trial date pushed ...

We are in danger of having laws that only allow for protests that don't bother anybody, and that treat peaceful protest worse than many violent offences.

A dangerous driver who caused damage to cars in High Wycombe and injured another motorist is among those sentenced at the magistrates' court.

A requirement for a High Court judge to approve assisted dying cases has been scrapped ... Andrew Copson, the chief executive of Humanists UK, also welcomed the amendment as "good news".

UK officials are checking for any possible cases of Lassa fever after a traveller to England, who has since returned to Nigeria, is known to have been infected. The virus does not spread easily ...