Convict ships, known as the 'hulks', were used to hold prisoners when the main jails were full Through his novels, Dickens was a lifelong critic of the British legal system which he thought was ...

UK Supreme Court judges have blocked the extradition of a British-Lebanese securities trader to the US to face trial for alleged insider trading in a rare act of defiance against American ...

Cambridge University academic Christopher Sargeant has revealed a ranking of the weirdest laws in force in Britain today after he spent two months analysing the British legal system for its most ...

Thomas Parker could be sentenced to death and executed by a firing squad if he is found guilty, as Indonesia take a ...