Boris Johnson’s controversial decision to prorogue Parliament for five weeks during a time of political and constitutional crisis has been found unlawful by Scotland’s highest civil court.
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has been sentenced to nine months in jail for contempt of court.
The European Court of Justice has ruled the UK can withdraw Article 50 and cancel Brexit without the permission of the other 27 EU members and stay a member of the European Union on its original terms.
Judges will no longer be required to give legal permission to end care for patients in a long-term permanent vegetative state if doctors and families agree, the Supreme 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.