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British broadcaster Paul Gambaccini has reached a confidential settlement with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) over a dropped investigation into sex abuse allegations against him. Mr Gambaccini was arrested in 2013 as part of Operation Yewtree, the investigation into child sex abuse by British m

Lord Hodge has expressed his doubt that complex financial crimes are best tried before a jury instead of a tribunal or court of specialists. The UK Supreme Court justice made the remarks in a speech in Shanghai on "The involvement of the public in the criminal process in the United Kingdom".

Publisher Picador has announced another book from the anonymous author of The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken. The as-yet-untitled new book promises to “reveal the stupidity, malice and incompetence behind many of the biggest legal stories of recent years” with p

The top UK law firms have seen their profit margins shrink for a fourth consecutive year, according to new research by PwC. The PwC Law Firms' Survey 2018 reports that profit margins at the top 10 firms have fallen to 36.6 per cent, down from 36.9 per cent in 2017 and 40 per cent in 2014.

Insurance policy documents are so hard to understand that university-level reading abilities may be required to make sense of them and even industry experts struggle to cut through the jargon, according to a Which? investigation. The consumer organisation used readability software to analyse 40

A new litigation finance body has launched a bond for ordinary investors to provide the money for lawsuits, with a view to reaping the rewards of successful cases. The litigation bond within an individual savings account, from Just Isa, aims to raise money for lawsuits against banks and profess

The office of the Advocate General for Scotland is asking the Court of Session in Edinburgh for leave to appeal a decision of the Inner House made last month. In September, the court permitted a group of politicians to ask the Court of Justice of the European Union for a ruling on whether MPs can re

Name checks are to be undertaken when UK bank customers transfer money from next summer to deter rising bank fraud. Currently, if a person wants to send money they are asked for the recipient's account name, as well as number and sort code. However, the bank does not check if the name is correct.

The Supreme Court has ruled that a bakery's refusal to supply a cake iced with the message ‘Support Gay Marriage’ was not discriminatory on the grounds of sexual orientation, as the refusal was based on the message and not to any particular person. The Court also held that the Fair Emplo

A cross-party group of MPs and Lords has launched a draft Act of Union Bill to "rebalance and stabilise the constitutional relationships between the four nations of the United Kingdom". The Constitution Reform Group (CRG) includes Robert Salisbury, former Leader of the House of Lords; Gisela Stuart,

The Court of Appeal has ruled that thousands of people may have been unlawfully held in immigration removal centres in recent years. In a case brought by five asylum seekers who were challenging the provisions of the Dublin III regulations, judges ruled that detained people could not be held indefin

Campaigners against Brexit have announced their intention to sue the Electoral Commission unless it reopens an investigation into a £435,000 donation to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). The Good Law Project, founded by Jolyon Maugham QC, sent a formal pre-action letter to the electoral wat

Agents for Britain’s security service are authorised to commit serious crimes, on British soil, without informing prosecutors, under a secretive MI5 policy, a court has been told. Reprieve, Privacy International, the Pat Finucane Centre and the Committee on the Administration of Justice a

Andy Wightman and others asked the Court of Session to make a judgment that Article 50 can be revoked unilaterally and unconditionally by the UK Parliament. The Court of Session has now agreed to refer this question to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the only court that can decide this matter a

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Edinburgh-headquartered Tesco Bank £16,400,000 for “failing to exercise due skill, care and diligence in protecting its personal current account holders against a cyber attack” following the major assault on its sy