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Marco Pierre White loses privacy case

Mr Justice Eady ruled that lawyers for the chef's estranged wife were entitled to obtain his private documents

'New laws will not close gender gap'

There is still a long way to go to achieve equality despite anti-discrimination laws, says Britain's most senior female judge

The £60 million makeover: new building, new law lords

There are just eight days left to apply for the hottest jobs in the judiciary — the first posts in the new supreme court

No more sniggering, sleazy tales about the sex lives of celebrities

Privacy law is the product of years of slow and careful change in response to intrusive tabloids

Lawyer of the Week: Nick Trenticosta

The lawyer who runs the Centre for Equal Justice in the US, a non-profit, post-conviction firm representing people on death row

95% of violence victims do not seek compensation

Government report delivers damning indictment of ministers' stated aim to prioritise victims of crime

Solicitors tell tribunal 'we did nothing wrong'

Law firm that earned £141m industrial disease compensation scheme has denied it had exploited sick miners

Court action aims to save rare insects

Attempt begins to stop land described as one of the country’s top three insect homes being turned into a lorry park

Mother denies author's allegations of abuse

Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell says she was libelled by claims of physical and emotional abuse in her daughter's book, Ugly

Law firm denies exploiting sick miners

Beresford Solicitors tells a professional tribunal that it is entitled to earn millions of pounds from miner's compensation

Solicitor accused over 'bogus' feudal titles

A London lawyer is facing disciplinary action over his alleged role in selling titles over the internet to Americans

Miner 'didn't realise he was signing money away'

Former coalminer tells tribunal he was 'treated terribly' by solicitors' firm that sliced £2,330 fee from his compensation

Victims cannot sue party

Although there was a breach of data protection law in publishing the list, legal remedies available to those affected are sparse

Author admits mistakes in 'fictional' abuse case

But QC acting on behalf of Constance Briscoe insists she is not a malicious fantasist as stepmother sues over allegations

Senior British judge attacks 'cynical' Bush

Lord Bingham has criticised the US as an 'occupying power' in Iraq and said there was no legal justification for the war

Mother sues daughter over 'misery lit' memoir

Constance Briscoe, one of Britain's first female black judges, is being sued by her own mother over book alleging childhood abuse

Sheikh 'wanted Michael Jackson to sing his songs'

The troubled pop star is facing a £4.7m lawsuit in the High Court for allegedly breaching a contract on a recording project

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Union accuses solicitors over ‘dubious deals’

UK’s highest-earning solicitor is said to have acted dishonestly in dealings with a mining union that cost them thousands

Rural dwellers are harmed by crop sprays

A woman who has fought for seven years to control use of pesticides on farmland near houses celebrates landmark victory