In the news The International Federation for Human Rights (Féderation Internationale pour les droits humains, FIDH) has published a report sharply critical of French, German, UK and US state and media ...

Koran burning conviction overturned: blasphemy law cannot be introduced via the back door under the Public Order Act ...

The number of hate crimes committed in England and Wales has risen since the previous year, according to statistics released ...

It will come to the surprise of many that the common law offence of blasphemy in the UK was only abolished in 2008. It has no place in a secular society such as ours. However attempts have been made ...

It is an object lesson in the various pitfalls which may stand in the way of a successful judicial review of public ...

Kemi Badenoch has confirmed that Conservative Party policy will be to withdraw the UK from the European Convention on Human ...

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Episode 227: It’s been an interesting year in the law, with Richard Hermer KC and the Shadow Attorney General Lord Wolfson of Tredegar joining battle on what constitutes the “thin” or “thick” concept ...

R (Ferguson) v HM Assistant Coroner for Sefton, Knowlsey and St Helens [2025] EWHC 1901 (Admin) concerned a challenge by the next of kin of Joseph Farley, who died after jumping from the fourteenth ...

The Weekly Round Up: Palestine Action, the Hague Group, a discharged MoD super-injunction, and freeholders' Convention rights ...

In ALR and others v Chancellor of the Exchequer [2025] EWHC 1467 (Admin), the High Court has dismissed a challenge against the government’s manifesto policy of adding VAT to private school fees. The ...