United Kingdom

Lord Wilson, a justice of the Supreme Court, returned to Northwestern University in Chicago this week to urge US law students to "strive tirelessly" to secure the protection and development of human rights. His speech, titled Our Human Rights: A Joint Effort?, looked at the "historical development"

Women will make up a majority of the judges hearing a case at the UK's highest court for the first time in British legal history next month. Lady Hale, Lady Black and Lady Arden will join Lord Carnwath and Lord Lloyd-Jones in considering whether a 16-year-old boy with behavioural and developmental d

The number of claims lodged with the Employment Tribunal alleging discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation has nearly doubled over the past year, The Times reports. There were 203 such claims in 2016/17 compared to 377 in 2017/18, which experts suggested was driven by changing social atti

DWF has announced its results for the year that ended 30 April 2018. Revenue increased by 18 per cent from £199 million to £236m, while profit per equity partner also increased. The international UK-headquartered firm has offices in Belfast and Dublin, celebrating its fifth consecutive y

The UK's bulk interception regime violates article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, judges in the European Court of Human Rights have ruled by five votes to two. The case of Big Brother Watch and Others v the United Kingdom concerned complaints by journalists and rights organisations ab

The UK Supreme Court is offering 12 free slots for graduate law schools and university law societies to hold the final round of their mooting competition before one of the court's justices. The moot finals will take place between February and May 2019 and priority will be given to graduate law

The UK government is facing a legal challenge from Reprieve over its use of a law that can be deployed to authorise the involvement of British intelligence officers in torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Section 7 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994 allows ministers to permit UK pe

Around 2,000 executives of companies which failed are due compensation payments and bigger pensions following a judgment of the European Court of Justice on the UK pensions lifeboat, The Times reports. The court ruled yesterday that the cap restricting pension payments to members of schemes rescued

A new video published by the BBC invites viewers to take a virtual reality tour through the highest court in the UK.

Scottish forensics expert Professor Dame Sue Black has called for the creation of a national database of sex offenders' penises to help tackle sexual crimes. Professor Black said that suspects can be identified by their penises alone and that it is the practice among many to upload such ph

An annual gathering of Catholic lawyers has become the subject of a row because of the church's handling of child abuse, The Times reports. Leading figures from Scotland's legal profession gather annually at St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh for the Red Mass, which ushers in the new legal year.

A new initiative to drive partnership working between legal professionals in the UK and Nigeria has been announced by Prime Minister Theresa May. The initiative is the latest stage of the Ministry of Justice’s ‘Legal Services are GREAT’ campaign, which aims to promote the UK&r

The requirement that a claimant of widowed parent’s allowance must have been married to or have been the civil partner of the deceased unjustifiably discriminates against the survivor and/or the children on the basis of their marital or birth status, justices in the Supreme Court have ruled. T

More than 100 Britons who were resettled abroad in the post-war period are to sue the UK government over abuse they suffered, the BBC reports. The Independent Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) said in March that 2,000 people should be compensated within a year.

A toy manufacturer has been fined for producing Peppa Pig kitchen sets for kids, in a landmark ruling for intellectual property rights in China. Jiale Toys Industrial, a company based in Shantou, had been authorised to make Peppa Pig products but a court has now ruled that the firm produced the toys