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10 Aug 2010

Expect redundancies, MoJ director tells staff

About £2bn will be sliced off the Ministry of Justice's £9bn budget over the next two years, some of which through redundancies, according to a letter leaked to the Public and Commercial Services Union.

14 Jul 2010

Badger ruling leaves door open for future culls

The Court of Appeal has comprehensively rejected the Welsh Assembly government's order for a badger cull in Pembrokeshire, but left the door open for future culls in Wales and England.

6 Jul 2010

Welsh government admits badger cull order was unlawful

The Welsh Assembly Government has admitted that an order sanctioning a mass cull of badgers in Pembrokeshire was unlawful.

24 May 2010

Seats of power

The coalition government has put constitutional reform and the protection of civil liberties right at the heart of the parliamentary agenda. Seamus Burns explains the changes to come

24 May 2010

The jury's out

Abolishing juries in defamation cases would not only keep costs down for both sides, but would also open up the verdicts to scrutiny, says William Bennett

20 May 2010

Coalition government unveils civil liberties, crime and legal aid reform

Radical reforms of the criminal justice system and a review of legal aid are two of the main planks of the coalition government's programme, alongside a commitment to roll back the state and protect individual freedoms.

27 Apr 2010

Off the mark

The ECJ's decision that Google does not infringe third party trademarks through its AdWords service has avoided other issues – not least whether the search engine could be liable for permitting infringement, says Paul Stanley NO

20 Apr 2010

Known unknowns

ABSs could deliver genuine benefits but there is just no way of knowing at this stage whether the model will be suitable for your firm, says Jonathan Smithers