The boyfriend of a woman found dead in a lake six years ago has won £125,000 libel damages over a police claim that he probably killed her.

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

A group of Tamil asylum seekers who were meant to have been deported back to Sri Lanka this afternoon have been given a last minute reprieve after lawyers managed to persuade a court that they were at a credible risk of torture should they be returned.

Judges at the UK's highest court have dismissed a profoundly disabled man's appeal over his care package.

The public should be given detailed information on what happens to offenders following specific crimes on their street, the Policing and Criminal Justice Minister said today.

Corruption in cricket must be eradicated to enable the game to survive as a "truly competitive sport", the country's top judge stressed today.

Magnus Peterson, the head of the collapsed hedge fund business Weavering, has been found in the High Court to have defrauded investors and ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

The court's judgment demonstrates to Taylor's victims that impunity can and will be challenged

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was jailed for 50 years today for helping rebels commit what a court in The Hague called some of the worst war crimes in history.

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke was forced to move his bank account after he discovered journalists were trying to access personal information, he said today.

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.

Cyber-anarchist group Anonymous are threatening another attack on Formula One during next week's Canadian Grand Prix in support of protesting Quebec students.

A High Court challenge to a plan to redevelop the Victorian house where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Hound Of The Baskervilles has succeeded.

Everyone should listen to Kofi Annan's claims that the massacre in Houla is a "tipping point" in the crisis in Syria, a United Nations human rights spokesman said today.