Important issues of UK constitutional law can arise in the most unusual of places. Some of the most important cases on undergraduate reading lists, for example, concerned disputes about fishing licences and whether goods could be measured in imperial, rather
Five city traders have had their convictions overturned in the Court of Appeal after serving jail sentences for rigging interest rates while working at Barclays bank.Philippe Moryoussef, Jay Merchant, Colin Bermingham, Jonathan Mathew, and Alex Pabon were convicted following prosecutions
In Gilbert & Anor v Broadoak Private Finance Ltd [2026] EWCA Civ 1172, the Court of Appeal confirmed that none of the three gateways the claimants relied upon permitted service out for a free-standing freezing order application brought to assist
Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society (Cambridge University Press), by Richard Thomas Bell, University of Oxford, is now available online (though not yet in print):
Why and how did English society
A police super complaint has been launched over forces’ ‘systemic failures’ to police image-based sex crimes.The challenge draws on testimony from over 100 survivors, police data from across England and Wales, and input from frontline organisations working with survivors of
The courts of England and Wales can review a decision taken under prerogative powers to remove an honour, a High Court judge ruled yesterday. Mrs Justice Lieven dismissed arguments put on behalf of the prime minister that “decisions relating
A solicitor who sought to cover up his failure to serve a claim on the defendant by fabricating a letter and then misleading the court in writing and orally has been struck off.The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
