Activists cleared of “burglary” after rescuing beagle puppies bred for laboratory testing: itself a test of the jury system ...

Jury Trial Reform, Assisted Dying in Crown Dependencies, the Private School VAT scheme, Terrorism Prescription Offence ...

By Kian Leong Tan INTRODUCTION In Medmoune v France App no 55026/22 (ECHR, 5 February 2026), the Fifth Section of the European Court of Human Rights considered the extent of a Member State’s ...

By Georgina Pein In a recent judgment, the High Court in AAA v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority  [2026] EWHC 317 (Fam) (Morgan J) heard 15 applications from fertility clinic patients for ...

On 09 March 2026, following a seven-day trial and over nine hours of deliberation, a jury at Peterborough Crown Court acquitted five defendants involved in rescuing 18 beagle puppies from a facility ...

In a recent judgment, the High Court in AAA v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2026] EWHC 317 (Fam) (Morgan J) heard 15 applications from fertility clinic patients for declaratory relief.

In a recent judgment, the High Court in AAA v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2026] EWHC 317 (Fam) (Morgan J) heard 15 applications from fertility clinic patients for declaratory relief.

If you received this article by email, it will have been attributed to Adam Wagner. It is in fact by Karwan Eskerie – apologies What is happiness? If you thought this most philosophical inquiry was ...

Article 2 of the ECHR protects the right to life. That article contains two distinct substantive obligations: “the general obligation to protect by law the right to life, and the prohibition of ...

R (on the application of Hannah McClure and Joshua Moos) v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2012] EWCA Civ 12 – Read judgment The Metropolitan Police has succeeded in its appeal against a ...

The Supreme Court has reminded us, in a tour de force by Lord Reed, that there is no such thing as one-stop proportionality. It varies between ECHR and EU law, and the tests of EU proportionality then ...

In what was a profoundly sad day for democracy, on 22 April 2013 the European Court of Human Rights found in favour of the UK government in a landmark test case concerning a TV advertisement produced ...