Legislation designed to limit access to abortions in Northern Ireland is a breach of human rights law, the Belfast High Court has ruled.
The eradication of the Liberal Democrats as a major political force is already having some rather stark consequences – and one of them may be the end of the 1998 Human Rights Act.
GCHQ has been censured by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) for contravening human rights law by failing to reveal information about how it shares surveillance data with the US.
The Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP welcomed the decision by the Court of Appeal in finding that murderer Ian McLoughlin should spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of review.
The UK Court of Appeal has backed the principle of whole-life prison sentences in two cases involving murderers, despite a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights that such terms should be reviewed.