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Judges to hear applications to withdraw life-sustaining treatment in public

Cases concerned with the withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment from patients in a minimally conscious or vegetative state should all be heard by the Court of Protection and should be heard in public, a senior judge ruled this morning as he refused an application by the family of a woman who has been in this condition since February 2003.

Appeal judges criticise Judge Gilbart's riot sentencing

The Court of Appeal has criticised the approach to the sentencing of rioters taken by Judge Andrew Gilbart, the Recorder of Manchester.

Mosley to fight on for prior-notification requirement

Max Mosley will continue to push for changes to privacy laws after failing to have his case against News of the World and the UK heard by the grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights.

Not waving but drowning

The government's cuts to legal aid are ill-thought out and disadavantage the most vulnerable members of society, ?says Lewis Forrest

Update: education

As university fees go up, students are turning into 'consumers' of education services. Salima Mawji and Anita Chopra consider the consequences

Update: PACE

Caroline Day and Jill Lorimer consider a high court decision on detention periods and subsequent emergency legislation, the potential increase in police powers following the riots, and a case concerning the necessity of arrest

Voice of reason

Victims of crime have the right to express an opinion during proceedings, but the ECJ was right to rule against allowing them to have a decisive voice, says Paul Stanley NO

Local government decisions

How will the localism bill affect council decision making? Annabel Graham Paul and Douglas Edwards QC report