Former PR guru Max Clifford has lost a challenge against his eight-year jail sentence for sex offences.

Ryanair has appointed the former secretary general of the Department of Transport, Julie O’Neill, to the board of Ryanair Holdings.

A senior British judge criticised Apple today in the latest round of a legal row between the technology giant and rival Samsung.

Senior judges today expressed amazement after technology giant Apple suggested it would need two weeks to post a notice on its website.

UK airport operator BAA is to give up its long legal battle over the forced sale of Stansted Airport.

One of the Birmingham Six has signed a petition demanding that the investigation into the pub bombings be reopened, and evidence subjected to new forensic tests.

Travellers made homeless after being evicted from an illegal site in the UK are set to ask senior judges to rule that they have a right to be re-homed in caravans or offered pitches.

Kieren Fallon will not ride Recital in this afternoon’s Investec Derby after the British Court of Appeal overturned an earlier ruling allowing him to take part.

AER Lingus says trading picked up in the third quarter and that it is likely to generate a full-year operating profit towards the top end of expectations.

Broadcasting giant BSkyB has suffered a near-£350m (€397.64m) hit after selling a 10.4% stake in ITV and admitting defeat in a long-running legal battle.

Four men serving at least 40 years behind bars for planning the failed July 21 London suicide bombings failed today in a British Court of Appeal bid to challenge their convictions.

THE campaign to free jailed Tipperary jockey Christy McGrath will be brought to the London offices of celebrated human rights solicitor Gareth Peirce today.

A man who served 25 years for the attempted murder of a nine-year-old boy had his conviction overturned by the British Court of Appeal today.

A mother who claimed she was wrongly convicted of killing her two babies was freed by the British Court of Appeal today.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair could apologise within days over the wrongful imprisonment of father and son Gerry and Guiseppe Conlon for an IRA bomb attack on the Horse and Groom pub in Guildford.

Two boys who broke out of an Australian Outback detention centre and were later refused asylum at a British consulate will appeal against their rejection before a British court, their lawyer said in Adelaide.

A MOTHER in the UK cleared of killing her babies has launched an attack on the professor whose controversial expert medical witness helped jail her for murder.

Two mothers in England today lost a battle to stop the compulsory vaccinations of their children – including the controversial MMR jab.

A group of Afghan men jailed for hijacking a plane from Kabul to Stansted to escape a Taliban death squad were cleared by the British Court of Appeal today.

The Spice Girls will have to pay around €1.6m after losing a legal battle with a motor scooter company they had sued for €356,442.

A new bid to force former soldiers to give their evidence to the Bloody Sunday inquiry in Derry -where they fear reprisal attacks - began in the British Court of Appeal today.