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• Diana Ellis obituary

  17-04-2025 18:25
  
  My wife, Diana Ellis, who has died aged 80, was a barrister specialising in criminal and international law. She also served as a recorder (a part-time judge), and was appointed QC in 2001. But this conventional career followed a period of radicalism which, during the era of apartheid, included a risky clandestine mission to South Africa.In the late 1960s, intent on becoming a social worker, she had enrolled at the London School of Economics to study for a diploma in social administration. While
  
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• Cramped Victorian prisons limiting rehabilitation, chief inspector says

  03-05-2025 09:00
  
  Charlie Taylor says old, overcrowded jails in England and Wales were never designed for education and trainingThe cramped conditions of Victorian prisons in England and Wales are limiting the rehabilitation opportunities for thousands of offenders, an official watchdog has said.As the Guardian launches a visual investigation into the state of Victorian prisons in inner cities and towns, the chief inspector of prisons, Charlie Taylor, said 19th century jails could also be “incredibly noisy
  
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• 31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation

  03-05-2025 09:00
  
  Many jails still in use today were built by the Victorians. Here’s how their 19th-century design is contributing to a 21st-century crisisEngland in the 1840s was a place of dizzying industry, rapid urbanisation and technological progress.Among the proliferation of inventions, a new type of building was unveiled to the world. A prison, K-shaped with long corridors made of sure, thick walls, and small windows in cold, solitary cells.The new prison will be most conducive to the reformation of
  
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• Does human rights law really stop the UK controlling migration? No – and Keir Starmer knows that | Jamie Burton

  03-05-2025 07:00
  
  It would be wrong for Labour to collude in the attack on the European convention. It’s fuelled by myths and false narrativesHere’s a recent quote from a Downing Street source: “We have to be able to say something on this that isn’t just defending the status quo.”The aide was discussing the European convention on human rights (ECHR), a postwar treaty to protect the freedoms of people in Europe, ratified by the UK in 1951. Although it was also central to Keir Starmer&
  
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• Trump order targeting law firm Perkins Coie is unconstitutional, judge rules

  03-05-2025 03:27
  
  US district judge Beryl Howell says order violates first, fifth and sixth amendments and permanently blocks it A federal judge on Friday permanently struck down Donald Trump’s executive order that targeted the firm Perkins Coie, which once worked with his 2016 presidential election rival Hillary Clinton, after declaring in an extraordinary ruling that the order was unconstitutional and unlawful.The decision from the US district judge Beryl Howell, which criticized virtually every aspect of
  
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• US asks judge to break up Google’s ad tech business after requesting Chrome sale

  03-05-2025 00:00
  
  After Google lost its first monopoly trial, government asks it to sell off units of its core internet ads businessGoogle on Friday faced a demand by the US government to break up its hugely profitable ad technology business. The request came after a judge found the tech giant was commanding an illegal monopoly for the second time in less than a year.“We have a defendant who has found ways to defy” the law, US government lawyer Julia Tarver Wood told a federal court in Virginia, as sh
  
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• Puerto Rico drops climate lawsuit after DoJ sues states to block threats to big oil

  02-05-2025 22:43
  
  Territory’s voluntary move comes as Trump administration makes good on pledge to end lawsuits against oil and gasPuerto Rico has voluntarily dismissed its 2024 climate lawsuit against big oil, a Friday legal filing shows, just two days after the US justice department sued two states over planned litigation against oil companies for their role in the climate crisis.Puerto Rico’s lawsuit, filed in July, alleged that the oil and gas giants had misled the public about the climate dangers
  
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• Governors have lost control of prison in Staffordshire, union says

  02-05-2025 16:37
  
  Prison Officers’ Association claims officer was stabbed in head and two others punched in face at HMP Swinfen HallGovernors have been accused of losing control of a Staffordshire jail after a union claimed that a male officer was stabbed in the head and two female colleagues were punched in the face during serious disturbances on Tuesday.The Prison Officers’ Association is demanding a clearout of hidden makeshift weapons from HMP Swinfen Hall near Lichfield after a third outbreak of
  
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• Pam Bondi turning DoJ into Trump’s ‘personal law firm’, top experts warn

  02-05-2025 16:00
  
  Attorney general accused of targeting political foes, halting prosecutions and placing premium on loyalty to presidentDonald Trump’s Department of Justice has taken radical steps to target his political foes, back a harsh agenda against undocumented immigrants and help business allies – steps which underscore its politicization under the attorney general Pam Bondi and undermine the rule of law, say ex-prosecutors and legal experts.Some even say that the department has in effect becom
  
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• We fought and beat the government in the courts because every Briton has the right to protest | Akiko Hart

  02-05-2025 14:52
  
  The appeal court verdict makes clear these anti-protest laws should never have existed. Labour must now reflect on what sort of democracy it wants us to beAkiko Hart is the director of the human rights organisation LibertyWhen we beat the Conservative government over its anti-democratic protest laws in court last year, we thought that would be the end of the story. Judges in the high court had made it very clear that laws that gave the police almost unlimited powers to crack down on any protest
  
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• Campaigners claim victory as judges quash Braverman move against protests

  02-05-2025 13:58
  
  Appeal court backs ruling against home secretary’s redefinition of when police could put limits on protestersCivil rights campaigners have hailed a “huge victory for democracy” after the court of appeal upheld the quashing of a key anti-protest regulation they said was introduced unlawfully.The government had appealed against a high court ruling that the previous Tory home secretary, Suella Braverman, did not have the power to redefine “serious disruption” as &ldquo
  
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• Nine journalist Nick McKenzie allegedly told of Ben Roberts-Smith’s planned legal action

  02-05-2025 08:40
  Roberts-Smith argues his unsuccessful defamation case against McKenzie and Nine newspapers should be retried because of a ‘miscarriage of justice’Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe Nine journalist Nick McKenzie was told about a legal action war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith planned to take ahead of his defamation trial, a court has heard, with the informant allegedly telling him “it’s always good to be on the front foot”.On Tuesday the f
  
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• Israel has no duty to allow UN aid agency into Gaza, says US state department lawyer

  30-04-2025 20:06
  
  Joshua Simmons tells international court of justice that Israel’s concerns about Unwra are ‘credible’Israel’s urgent security needs override its obligations to provide aid to Palestinians in Gaza, a US state department lawyer has told the international court of justice (ICJ).Joshua Simmons spoke as the United Nations’ top court hears a case on Israel’s ban on cooperation with Unwra, the UN’s main agency for Palestinians. Continue reading...
  
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• Stonewall’s policy of ‘no debate’ on trans rights was a mistake | Letters

  30-04-2025 18:47
  
  The LGBTQ+ rights charity’s former head Ben Summerskill and the parent of a trans-identifying young person respond to coverage of the recent supreme court rulingBoth Gaby Hinsliff, in her typically thoughtful piece (If Britain is now resetting the clock on trans rights, where will that leave us?, 18 April), and your correspondent who says “All sensible, two-way discussion of this topic has been prevented” (Letters, 22 April) highlight the risks that both trans people and many o
  
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• Tony Blair’s climate crisis views ‘absolutely aligned’ with government policy, Starmer says – as it happened

  30-04-2025 18:42
  
  This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story herePMQs is starting soon.Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question. Continue reading...
  
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• US claims there are ‘serious concerns’ over Unrwa as agency says Israel has abused detained staff – as it happened

  30-04-2025 15:32
  US official tells international court of justice hearing that it backs Israel’s stance on the agency, which says Israel has abused detained staffThere is now a live feed from the international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague, where the US is giving evidence (see 8.52am). You may need to refresh the blog to see it.An Iranian man convicted of espionage and intelligence cooperation with Israel was executed on Wednesday, Iranian state media reported. Continue reading...
  
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• Barclays says bank will bar trans women from using female bathrooms

  30-04-2025 14:56
  Boss confirms policy change as businesses move to comply with recent supreme court rulingThe boss of Barclays has said the bank will prohibit trans women from using female bathrooms in its buildings in the wake of the recent supreme court ruling.The bank’s chief executive, CS Venkatakrishnan, told reporters that the group would not allow trans women to use female bathrooms, to ensure that it complies with the law. Continue reading...
  
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• Chicken megafarm in Shropshire must not be built, clean river group tells court

  30-04-2025 12:44
  ‘Huge volumes of chicken muck’ entering rivers are harmful to fish and plants, campaigners argue at Cardiff high courtClean river campaigners have told a court that planning permission for a poultry megafarm in Shropshire is unlawful and should be overturned.In the high court in Cardiff on Wednesday, Dr Alison Caffyn argued that the council had failed to take into account all the environmental impacts of the industrial chicken units, which will house 230,000 birds at any one time, in
  
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• TV tonight: grooming gang victims tell their stories

  30-04-2025 07:20
  Channel 4 interviews adult survivors in an essential documentary. Plus: David Tennant’s tricky new gameshow. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 4
  Anna Hall has been reporting on gang grooming for more than two decades, after first broadcasting her findings in her 2004 film Edge of the City. In this horrifying documentary, she meets five grownup victims who speak about their experiences, examines the failings of the authorities (victims were referred to as “child pros
  
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• Trump says DOGE work led to fraud referrals to Justice Department By Reuters - Investing.com

  30-04-2025 04:07 via news.google.com
  Trump says DOGE work led to fraud referrals to Justice Department By Reuters  Investing.com
  
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• 'I want justice': Family of man killed in Clearwater ferry crash struck by grief - Bay News 9

  30-04-2025 03:35 via news.google.com
  'I want justice': Family of man killed in Clearwater ferry crash struck by grief  Bay News 9
  
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• Trump Delivers Massive Blow to Youth Justice Programs - The Imprint

  30-04-2025 03:08 via news.google.com
  Trump Delivers Massive Blow to Youth Justice Programs  The Imprint
  
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• Revisiting the Kusi Boateng Allegations: A Renewed Call for Transparency and Justice - Modern Ghana

  30-04-2025 02:56 via news.google.com
  Revisiting the Kusi Boateng Allegations: A Renewed Call for Transparency and Justice  Modern Ghana
  
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• EU Court of Justice orders Malta to close its “golden passport” program - JURIST Legal News

  30-04-2025 02:45 via news.google.com
  EU Court of Justice orders Malta to close its “golden passport” program  JURIST Legal News
  
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• Justice Ayesha Malik awarded honorary doctorate by University of London - The News International

  30-04-2025 02:42 via news.google.com
  Justice Ayesha Malik awarded honorary doctorate by University of London  The News International
  
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• The EPA is canceling almost 800 environmental justice grants, court filing reveals - The Washington Post

  30-04-2025 02:08 via news.google.com
  The EPA is canceling almost 800 environmental justice grants, court filing reveals  The Washington Post
  
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• I'm Glad She Gets Justice, But You Season 5 Makes One Love Quinn Mistake Even Worse - Screen Rant

  30-04-2025 01:30 via news.google.com
  I'm Glad She Gets Justice, But You Season 5 Makes One Love Quinn Mistake Even Worse  Screen Rant
  
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• Former criminal justice worker, 34, is charged with conspiracy to murder and kidnap 'after her ex boyfriend wa - Daily Mail

  30-04-2025 01:30 via news.google.com
  Former criminal justice worker, 34, is charged with conspiracy to murder and kidnap 'after her ex boyfriend wa  Daily Mail
  
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• DOGE staffer advised on cuts to Justice Dept grants, document and source say - Reuters

  30-04-2025 01:19 via news.google.com
  DOGE staffer advised on cuts to Justice Dept grants, document and source say  Reuters
  
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• 70 years after the Martian Manhunter's debut, the Justice League mainstay has been reinvented in the Absolute DC Universe's most daring and compelling series yet - GamesRadar+

  30-04-2025 00:58 via news.google.com
  70 years after the Martian Manhunter's debut, the Justice League mainstay has been reinvented in the Absolute DC Universe's most daring and compelling series yet  GamesRadar+
  
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