A widow has won a court battle to prevent the frozen sperm of her dead husband from being destroyed.
The government has lost an appeal to the Supreme Court over a ruling that its “back-to-work” scheme at places like Poundland was legally flawed.
Victims are for the first time going to be able to directly confront those who are accused of committing crimes against them in court under the new Victims’ Code.
One of the most important pieces of legislation wending its way through the European Parliament concerns data protection. Because of its potential impact on major US companies like Google and Facebook, this has become one of the most fought-over proposals in the history of the EU, with lobbyists apparently writing large chunks of suggested amendments more favorable to online services.
The Open Rights group, Big Brother Watch, Constanze Kurz and English PEN are challenging the legality of the mass data hoovering by the UK government revealed by Edward Snowden.