Three judges who allegedly viewed pornography on official IT equipment at work were sacked for “wholly unacceptable” behaviour and a fourth has resigned, the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) said.

Giving people with terminal illness the right to die would not lead to more deaths, but would mean fewer suffering "lonely, cruel" ends, a Labour peer has claimed.

The inquest into the death of singer Amy Winehouse will be reheard, according to a spokesman for Camden Council.

EVEN the imaginations of those revered masters of comic opera, Gilbert and Sullivan, could not have devised a more topsy-turvy world than the august, 19th century, Courts of Justice in the Strand yesterday.

THE widow of one of the 7/7 suicide bombers yesterday lost her High Court bid to overturn a decision refusing her legal aid for representation at the upcoming inquest into the deaths of 52 people in the attacks in London in 2005.

DAVID Cameron hailed “a historic and seismic shift” in Britain’s political landscape yesterday as he launched the country’s first coalition government since the Second World War.

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One of Britain’s most senior judges has launched a broadside against the European Court of Human Rights, accusing it of overstepping its role and trying to create a “federal law of Europe”.

Gordon Brown suffered a fresh blow today as a poll showed the Tories have established a seven-point lead over Labour as their support reached a 15-year high.

'Great train robber' Ronnie Biggs is making a fresh bid to be released from prison on compassionate grounds, his legal team said.

Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs is making a fresh bid to be released from prison on compassionate grounds, his legal team said tonight.

The parents of Soham murderer Ian Huntley are backing calls for their son to spend the rest of his life in prison, it was reported today.

The UK government came under increasing pressure today to help set free British residents held at Guantanamo Bay after it emerged an offer from America was turned down.

British government funding to help the Omagh families take civil action against those they believe were responsible for the Real IRA bomb which killed 29 people has been put on hold, a court was told today.

THE British Government is considering legislation instructing judges how to interpret the Human Rights Act if they try to block the government’s tough new deportation policy.

ALL sides of the political spectrum attacked the British Government’s raft of counter-terrorism proposals as “random” and “half-baked” yesterday.

LONDON police on Saturday charged a suspect in the failed July 21 attacks with conspiracy to murder and possession of explosives - the first charges to be laid in Britain against any of the would-be bombers.

Three men were today remanded in custody charged under anti-terror laws in connection with the July 21 attacks in London.

THE legal profession in Britain is to be stripped of its powers to investigate complaints against lawyers, Britain’s Lord Chancellor Charles Falconer confirmed yesterday.

A 31-HOUR battle over controversial British anti-terror powers ended in the Lords last night when opposition parties accepted a government compromise.

BRITAIN’S Lord Chancellor has defended his view that the Prince of Wales’s forthcoming marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles will be legal.

CLARENCE HOUSE yesterday rejected claims that the forthcoming civil marriage between the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles would not be legal.

A CROSS-PARTY attempt by British MPs intended to prevent the introduction of “euthanasia by the back door” failed last night amid chaotic scenes in the House of Commons.

The public is to be given a say in the selection of judges in Northern Ireland under wide-ranging reforms to the selection process announced today.

A former health board chief and a solicitor were among six Northern Ireland judicial appointments today.

A coroner today confirmed he may reopen the inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly, after some witnesses refused to allow their statements to be passed to the Hutton inquiry.

DISGRACED perjurer Lord Archer will be stripped of his peerage under proposals for House of Lords reform announced by the British Government yesterday.

The British government is to provide the Omagh bomb victims’ families with the £800,000 (€1.1m) they need to take those accused of the atrocity to court.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to reshuffle his cabinet has left him much lonelier following the resignation of his Health Secretary Alan Milburn.

FIVE men were cleared yesterday of plotting to kidnap Victoria Beckham and ransom her for £5 million.

DESPITE the charade witnessed in the Dáil yesterday, Ireland officially supports the US-contrived war against Iraq, which was launched 24 hours ago.

A British newspaper today defied attempts by a German court to stop it publishing allegations about the private life of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

Former British Prime Minister Ted Heath today bluntly denied that the Bloody Sunday killings were planned and covered up by the British government.

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is due to give evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry today.

Northern Secretary John Reid was today accused of reinforcing sectarian divisions by opting to grant city status to both Lisburn and Newry.

Police and soldiers involved in fatal shootings in Northern Ireland are to lose their exemption from giving evidence at inquests, it emerged today.

The British government today announced proposals to transfer responsibility for policing and the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland to locally-elected politicians in the North after assembly elections in May 2003.