The Hillsborough disaster tribute single topped the charts today to become the 2012 Christmas number one.

The British High Court has quashed the original accidental death inquest verdicts returned after 96 Liverpool football fans died in the crush at Hillsborough 23 years ago.

A new police investigation into the Hillsborough Disaster was announced by the UK Home Secretary today.

The High Court is being asked today to quash the original accidental death inquest verdicts returned after 96 Liverpool football fans died in the crush at Hillsborough 23 years ago.

Footballer Ched Evans has lost a challenge against his conviction for rape.

A man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet has won his challenge against conviction.

A man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet had celebrity backing as he renewed his challenge against conviction in the UK today.

The high-proflie case of a man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet returns to court in Britain today.

Former bouncer Levi Bellfield lost a bid today to challenge his conviction for the kidnap and murder of British teenager Milly Dowler.

Journalists and legal commentators no longer have to make an application for permission to Twitter, text or email from court in England and Wales, the Lord Chief Justice announced today.

One of the two men who helped gunman Raoul Moat during his shotgun rampage - which left a man dead and a police officer blinded – lost a bid to win a reduction in his “excessive” sentence today.

THE DAILY MIRROR was fined £50,000 (€57,200) and The Sun £18,000 (€20,600) for contempt of court over publication of articles following the arrest of a suspect by police investigating the killing of 25-year-old landscape architect Joanna Yeates.

News of the World editor Colin Myler offered a rallying call to his journalists today as the newspaper prepared to go “out with a bang” with its final edition.

THE first juror ever to be prosecuted for contempt of court involving the internet sobbed as she was warned she faces jail.

The first juror ever to be prosecuted for contempt of court involving the internet sobbed today as she was warned she faces jail.

A FOOTBALLER is suing Twitter after users of the social networking site claimed to have identified the player who allegedly had an affair with Big Brother’s Imogen Thomas.

The most senior judges in England and Wales have been accused of trying to gag the media after criticising politicians who have deliberately disclosed the content of privacy cases covered by injunctions.

Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe today lost a bid to go to the highest court in Britain to challenge an order that he can never be released.

THE notorious crimes committed by Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe — who is never to be released — were described as being at the “extreme end of horror” by top judges yesterday.

There is no statutory ban on the use of Twitter in courts and the use of unobtrusive, silent equipment for live text updates is unlikely to interfere with the proper administration of justice, the UK's top judge said today.

COURT-BASED tweeting is likely to increase the risk of a mistrial and misuse of the internet by jurors must stop if the jury system is to survive, England and Wales’ most senior judge has said.

A DEVOTED mother who injected her brain-damaged son with a fatal dose of heroin as an act of mercy, believing he was suffering a painful “living death”, failed to overturn her murder conviction.

A mother who gave her brain-damaged son a lethal heroin injection to end his “living hell” launches a conviction appeal today.

One of the three people jailed in Britain over the death of Baby Peter lost an appeal today against his conviction for the rape of a two-year-old girl.

A businessman jailed for attacking an intruder after the lives of his family were threatened by knife-wielding thugs in their home was freed by the Court of Appeal I n Britain today.

A gang member who armed the killer of schoolboy Rhys Jones had his “unduly lenient” seven-year sentence increased to 12 years by the Court of Appeal today.

A gang member who armed the killer of British schoolboy Rhys Jones will have his sentence reviewed today to determine if it is “unduly lenient”.

A CRIMINAL trial is to go ahead for the first time without a jury in England and Wales following an historic ruling by the Court of Appeal yesterday.

Back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin and his wife Anne today lost appeals against their jail sentences for a “sophisticated” £250,000 (€266,000) fraud they carried out by faking his death at sea.