People can no longer rant about bloody murder, says James Alexander. The judges condemned Lucy Connolly as if she were Boadicea, but she was just a Shakespearian plebeian voicing the sentiments of anyone shocked by murder.
The sentencing judge in Lucy Connolly's case claimed her previous tweets 'proved' she was a racist ne'er-do-well who deserved two and a half years behind bars. Laurie Wastell investigates and finds nothing of the sort.
A High Court judge temporarily blocked Keir Starmer from handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius pending a hearing over a challenge to the move. Sadly, the challenge was soon dismissed, allowing the giveaway to go ahead.
Lucy Connolly, who was jailed for 31 months for a tweet posted in the wake of the Southport murders, has failed in her attempt to be released early after the Court of Appeal refused to reduce her sentence.
Transgender women are not legally women, the Supreme Court has declared. In a unanimous decision, the five justices ruled that "woman" and "sex" in the 2010 Equality Act refer to biological sex, not acquired gender.
Why are some courts refusing to release transcripts of the rape gang trials, ask Adam Wren and Melisa Tourt. The transcripts contain valuable information about the cases, but not all courts are cooperating with requests.
The Sentencing Council's abortive effort to introduce two-tier sentencing highlights a crucial issue, says law expert Dr Kyriakos N. Kotsoglou: people should always be treated as individuals, not members of a social group.
Donald Trump has demanded France "free" Marine Le Pen and labelled her ban from running for office over a "bookkeeping error" a "witch hunt" just like he was subjected to.
The removal of Marine Le Pen, France's leading opposition politician, confirms a global anti-democratic trend of banning the Right, says Eugyppius. What she was convicted of was nothing unusual in the European Parliament.
Marine Le Pen will not be allowed to stand in France's next Presidential election after being banned from politics for five years in a ruling condemned by Italy's Deputy PM as a "declaration of war by Brussels".
