Baby RB to be allowed to die as father concedes

Father withdraws his opposition to doctors plea for severely disabled one-year-old boy to be taken off life support

Sun pays high price in Oracle’s takeover bid

The delay is costing the database company hundreds of millions of dollars as its corporate customers flee the uncertainty

Police to handle minor charges, says CPS

The Crown Prosecution Service is turning the clock back under proposals for police to handle offences to be tried by magistrates

Former Bear Stearns fund managers acquitted

Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin were cleared in the first major criminal trial stemming from the sub-prime mortgage crisis

Accenture loses ruling in British Gas dispute

Judge finds in favour of gas supplier that faulty IT system caused chaos for customers and lost its business millions

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Misuse of police computer

Legal advice privilege review

Judges must not prejudice accused’s right to fair trial

Supplier of killer gun can expect severe sentence

Review delayed by insurers