The jury in the trial of two Travellers accused of enslaving vulnerable men was discharged yesterday.

A detective sergeant was jailed for eight years today for raping a mother in her own home.

Rights groups hail jailing of Liberia's former president for horrific war crimes in Sierra Leone

Police can keep the personal details of a peaceful protester on a domestic extremism database, despite the fact he has not been convicted of any crime, High Court judges have ruled.

A teenager has been jailed for life for shooting an aspiring athlete in "an act of cold-blooded murder".

Rangers have won their court battle against a Scottish Football Association transfer embargo, after a judge ruled yesterday that SFA disciplinary panel members had acted outside of their powers.

A woman who tripped and fell downstairs while carrying her baby granddaughter has been successfully sued by her own family for causing head injuries that left the little girl severely disabled.

A drunk passenger who hurled racist abuse at fellow Tube travellers in a tirade that became an internet sensation has been jailed for 21 weeks.

The taxman has failed in a legal move to force a tycoon to hand over documents used in a divorce battle which ended in him having to pay the highest award in British legal history.

Fewer than a third of the most senior jobs in the UK are held by women, according to new figures.

Lindt & Sprüngli, the Swiss confectioner that has produced gold-foiled and be-ribboned chocolate rabbits for the past 60 years, has been dealt a crushing blow by the European Union's Court of Justice.

A former soldier who carried out a string of sex attacks has been jailed indefinitely.

A former soldier who carried out a string of sex attacks has been jailed indefinitely.

A court clerk who made legal history when he became the first person to be jailed under new bribery legislation won a two-year cut in his sentence today.