Iraqi cleaner sues UK over sex claims

Mother of five says she was sexually harassed at Baghdad embassy and ambassador’s residence, but complaints were ignored

Trivial cases 'clogging up crown courts'

Jack Straw tells magistrates that the justice system would be improved if they passed on fewer cases for trial by jury

Mother's anguish as Baby RB dies

Baby RB, whose parents fought a legal battle with each other over his life support, has died after his breathing tube was removed

Libel laws stifle health doubts

Justice Alternative therapists and makers of medical devices are using the UK courts to silence critics

Anstee will fight for City’s supremacy

The local accountant with corporate finance and insolvency experience outlines his aims for the year as Lord Mayor

IT programmers implicated in Madoff scandal

Prosecutors charged Jerome O’Hara and George Perez with assisting the $65bn fraud and say more conspirators could be unmasked

Assisted suicide guidance ‘a danger to elderly’

Plans to allow relatives to avoid prosecution could increase pressure on the vulnerable, group of lawyers and judges fears

Privy Council backs removal of Chief Justice

Gibraltar's Chief Justice should be removed because his behaviour has brought the office into disrepute, the committee ruled

Total pleads guilty to Buncefield fire charges

World's fifth largest oil company admits health and safety breaches that caused the UK's biggest explosion in peacetime

Entrepreneurs say Rutland breached contract

Court hears that private equity firm exploited a business plan for pawnbroker Harvey & Thompson and then reneged on deal

Weird Cases: what not to wear in court

The lawyer who challenged the court's definition of a "staid environment" with his baseball outfit

In the City: it’s simply not our culture

Being hopelessly devoted to clients may seem appealing ... but wouold it show up the locals?

Frances Gibb: victims in the driving seat?

At the Bar conference barristers leaders warned that people should not be deceived into thinking that they are in the driving seat

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?

Switching priority when winding up companies

Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd and Another v BNY Corporate Trustee Services Ltd and Another Butters and Others v BBC Worldwide Ltd and Others

Claimant has to establish increased risk of damage

Sienkiewicz v Greif (UK) Ltd

Council of residence inherits duty to fund care package

Regina (Manchester City Council) v St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council

Scheme of arrangement excludes property interests held in trust

In re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (in Administration) (No 2)

Removal of privilege against self-incrimination

BTA Bank JSC v Ablyazov and Others

Police can keep seized property pending private prosecution

Scopelight Ltd and Others v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police and Another

Belief based on science can be entitled to protection

Grainger plc v Nicholson

Prosecution notices must be served lawfully

Gidden v Director of Public Prosecutions