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Fourth member of Stockwell Six appealing against conviction
The Criminal Cases Review Commission said Texo Johnson got in touch after his sister saw the news that three friends had had their names cleared.
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Sam Tobin
26 Jul 2021
UK
Latest hearing in High Court battle between Meghan and Mail On Sunday
In February the High Court granted Meghan summary judgment in relation to her privacy claim as well as most of her copyright claim.
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Sam Tobin
5 May 2021
UK
Mass legal action against Google would ‘open the floodgates’, Supreme Court told
Former Which? director Richard Lloyd, supported by a campaign group, wants to bring a ‘representative action’ against the US-based tech giant.
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Sam Tobin
28 Apr 2021
UK
Supreme Court to hear landmark Google data protection case
Former Which director Richard Lloyd, supported by campaign group Google You Owe Us, wants to bring a ‘representative action’ against the tech giant.
By
Sam Tobin
28 Apr 2021
UK
Ex-Post Office chief should be stripped of CBE over Horizon scandal, union says
Paula Vennells, who was chief executive of the Post Office until 2019, was awarded a CBE for ‘services to the Post Office and to charity’.
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Sam Tobin
23 Apr 2021
UK
Relief and anger as subpostmasters finally have their convictions overturned
Former subpostmasters celebrated outside court after they cleared their names – but others were angry at the Post Office for ‘destroying’ their lives.
By
Sam Tobin
23 Apr 2021
UK
39 former subpostmasters have names cleared over accounting scandal
Lawyers said evidence of serious defects in the Horizon system was ‘concealed from the courts, prosecutors and defence’.
By
Sam Tobin
23 Apr 2021
UK
Court of Appeal to finally overturn dozens of former subpostmasters’ convictions
At least 39 of the former subpostmasters are expected to have their convictions overturned.
By
Sam Tobin
23 Apr 2021
UK
Tommy Robinson’s ‘anti-Muslim message’ saw boy facing death threats, court hears
The English Defence League founder – whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – is being sued by Jamal Hijazi.
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Sam Tobin
21 Apr 2021
UK
Undercover officers’ sexual relationships encouraged or tolerated, tribunal told
Kate Wilson, who was deceived into an intimate relationship with undercover officer Mark Kennedy, is taking legal action against the Met.
By
Sam Tobin
20 Apr 2021
UK
Welsh Government takes Westminster to court over Internal Market Act
Counsel General for Wales Jeremy Miles is asking the High Court to give the go-ahead for a full challenge to the Interal Market Act.
By
Sam Tobin
16 Apr 2021
UK
Former barracks ‘entirely unsuitable’ to house asylum seekers, High Court hears
Six asylum seekers are claiming that their accommodation at the facility breached their human rights, and could amount to false imprisonment.
By
Sam Tobin
14 Apr 2021
UK
Terrorist in partial victory over changes to licence after London Bridge attack
Omar Latif was one of nine men jailed in 2012 for terror offences relating to an al Qaida-inspired plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange.
By
Sam Tobin
14 Apr 2021
UK
High Court to hear legal challenge to housing asylum seekers in army barracks
Almost 200 people tested positive for coronavirus during an outbreak at the barracks earlier this year.
By
Sam Tobin
14 Apr 2021
UK
Labour loses bid to have Anas Sarwar’s name on ballot papers
The High Court ruled the Electoral Commission was following ‘its standard process’ when it said the change could not be made in time for the poll.
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Sam Tobin
31 Mar 2021
UK
Members of the Freshwater Five lose appeal against cocaine plot convictions
Jonathan Beere and Daniel Payne were jailed in 2011 for conspiracy to import £53 million of cocaine into the UK.
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Sam Tobin
25 Mar 2021
UK
Johnny Depp to find out if he can appeal against ‘wife beater’ ruling
The actor has asked the Court of Appeal to grant permission for him to challenge the ruling.
By
Sam Tobin
25 Mar 2021
UK
Johnny Depp to find out if he can bring appeal against ‘wife beater’ ruling
The actor has asked the Court of Appeal to grant permission for him to challenge the ruling.
By
Sam Tobin
24 Mar 2021
UK
Shrewsbury 24 ruling overturns ‘major miscarriage of justice’ nearly 50 years on
Twenty-two trade unionists were convicted across three trials in 1973 and 1974.
By
Sam Tobin
23 Mar 2021
UK
Court of Appeal overturns members of the Shrewsbury 24’s convictions
The judge said it would not be in the public interest to order a retrial.
By
Sam Tobin
23 Mar 2021
UK
Court of Appeal to rule on conviction appeals by members of the Shrewsbury 24
Two dozen trade unionists who picketed during the 1972 national builders’ strike were charged with offences.
By
Sam Tobin
23 Mar 2021
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