Tighter security as Real IRA targets judges

Families are told to check under their cars as intelligence suggests a renewed republican campaign against the judiciary

Case study: I blame criminal justice system

When a customer was asked to leave the Rose and Crown in Rushden, Northamptonshire, he smashed his glass in the manager’s face

Fixed penalties hide justice from the public

Out-of-court cautions and fines are effective and cost-efficient, but magistrates are alarmed about practice and principle

Caution for assault ‘will lead to a murder’

Judges are concerned that thousands of cautions are being handed out for violent assaults that should come before courts

Chief prosecutor demands curb on police cautions

Director of Public Prosecutions seeks review of ‘instant justice’ amid concern that violent offenders not being reined in

'I survived so please let Baby RB live too'

University student Vicky Rhodes tells how she beat the medical condition at the centre of a right-to-life legal dispute

From the fairground to on top of the legal world

Lawyer Mike Pullen grew up in a family of fairground people and left school when he was 12 but was determined to be a success

The law is on trial for closed shop

The Law Society and Bar Council are trying hard to encourage people from all walks of life to enter the profession

Allen & Overy income falls as law firms suffer

Clifford Chance said that it was cutting more lawyers as the economic troubles continued to affect legal profession

Setback for Lehman creditors as court blocks PwC plan

Court of Appeal says radical plan designed to speed up the Lehman Brothers administration is unacceptable under UK insolvency law

Weird Cases: briefs grief

A holidaymaker claims the design of his underwear was at fault for his discomfort

Frances Gibb: the internet and the super-injunction

The recent clash between the courts, media and Parliament over the Trafigura injunction has exposed the latest enemy of press freedom

In the City: you have a dispute. Are lawyers the solution?

Litigation might be booming but how did everyone at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' annual mediation symposium answer the question?

David Pannick: putting handcuffs on literature

Victims will not receive a penny from the restrictions on the publication of criminal memoirs - the Exchequer will keep any money received

Weird Cases: 'Please, send me back to jail'

Unable to take his wife's nagging, a Sicilian man pleads with authorities to end his house arrest

In the City: a bar to business?

Might a side-effect of the liberalising Legal Services Act be an opening up of the market for professional indemnity insurance?

Judges must not prejudice accused’s right to fair trial

Supplier of killer gun can expect severe sentence

Review delayed by insurers

Intent of recipient relevant

Date of payment into court of foreign currency cheque

ENE Kos 1 Ltd v Petroleo Brasilieiro SA

Associative discrimination falls within European equal treatment directive

EBR Attridge Law LLP (formerly Attridge Law) (a Firm) and Another v Coleman

Previous incompatibility finding is sufficien

Regina (Chester) v Secretary of State for Justice and Another

‘Inform’ and ‘notify’ not same

Ali v Birmingham City Council