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Expat Britons await ruling on pension rights battle

16.03.10
More than half a million retired Britons living abroad could be in line for Government payouts if a group fighting a legal battle over pension rights win their case ... more

Scrap stop and search law says terror watchdog

04.03.10
Future of controversial powers which allow police to stop and search people without suspicion is in renewed doubt after Government’s terrorism watchdog calls for them to be scrapped... more

McCanns attack police after they were forced into 'begging' for help to find Madeleine

19.02.10
Kate and Gerry McCann launch a furious tirade at the Portuguese police for failing to investigate new leads in their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance... more

Only one DNA profile removed every day

14.01.10
Innocent people's DNA profiles are being removed from the national database at a rate of barely one a day, figures show... more

Tories vow to curb stop-and-search powers

13.01.10
Police use of counter-terrorism powers to stop and search members of the public would be curbed under a Conservative government... more

Terror stop and search powers are unlawful, rules Europe

12.01.10
Anti-terrorist powers which allow police to stop and search people are declared unlawful by European Court of Human Rights judges... more

Straight couple to sue after being denied 'gay wedding'

24.11.09
Heterosexual London couple who were refused a civil partnership said they will launch a legal challenge to the ruling... more

A civil wrong or a rebellion too right on?

16.11.09
Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle are making a stand, they say, against “an apartheid of sorts”... more

Brown tries to limit helicopter damage

10.11.09
The transcript of a conversation between the Prime Minister and the mother of a soldier who died in Afghanistan has driven the Government's failures to equip troops adequately to the top of the political agenda... more

Arrested teenagers' DNA to be kept on record for six years

10.11.09
Thousands of innocent teenagers will have their DNA kept on the national database into adulthood... more

Alan Johnson to study medical evidence in hacker case

27.10.09
Home Secretary Alan Johnson is to study new medical evidence surrounding computer hacker Gary McKinnon before deciding on his extradition to the US... more

Straw: Prisoners won't be able to vote until after general election

08.10.09
Jack Straw is to delay legal changes that will allow prisoners to vote until after the general election... more

Delete innocent's DNA profiles, urges Diane Abbott

21.08.09
Hackney MP Diane Abbott is to offer advice to constituents on how to get their DNA profiles wiped from the national database after shadow immigration minister Damian Green won the battle to have his removed this week... more

Northern Rock ex-holders are again denied their cash claim

28.07.09
Former shareholders in Northern Rock failed in their second legal attempt to force the Government to pay them hundreds of millions of pounds compensation after the bank was nationalised two years ago ... more

Ministers face legal battle over holding DNA data

07.05.09
Ministers were facing a legal battle and angry protests over new plans to retain the DNA profiles of innocent people for up to 12 years on the national database... more

Ministers face DNA database battle

07.05.09
Ministers face a legal battle and angry protests over new plans to retain the DNA profiles of innocent people for up to 12 years on the national database... more

Police tactics need reform

07.05.09
Stop and search was always a controversial police tactic that was used disproportionately in the case of young black men... more

Rapist's legal aid attacked

24.03.09
A rapist fighting deportation has been granted legal aid in his battle for custody of his eight-year-old son... more

Judges free four terror suspects

27.02.09
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith attacked immigration judges after they ordered the release of four foreign terror suspects despite fears that they will go on the run... more

Fury as Abu Qatada wins token payout over human rights

19.02.09
European judges have ordered British taxpayers to pay compensation to radical Islamic preacher Abu Qatada... more

Finally, Qatada can be kicked out...followed by other militants

18.02.09
Radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada is facing deportation after a ruling which paves the way for dozens of other extremists to be removed from Britain... more

DNA of one million innocent people held illegally by police

04.12.08
DNA samples of up to a million people held by police on a national database may have to be destroyed after the Government lost a landmark European legal ruling ... more

Mother's Euro fight for inquest on shot son

26.11.08
A mother denied an inquest by the Government into the death of her son who was shot by police is taking her case to the European Court of Human Rights... more

Honour for officers who keep crash victim's memory alive

05.11.08
An annual award ceremony which honours police who track down criminal drivers and help victims and their families is being held at the House of Commons... more

Hacker faces extradition to America within weeks

28.08.08
A computer geek who hacked into top secret US military networks will be extradited to America within a fortnight to face trial after he lost his last-ditch legal appeal... more

Crucial evidence goes missing in hacker case

05.08.08
As the Law Lords accept US demands to have London hacker Gary McKinnon extradited we reveal how proof of America's desire to brand him a terrorist has mysteriously vanished ... more

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