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What's the Big Idea?

Social skills

Europe is playing it safe when it comes to 'social evils', says Paul Stanley NO

CPS's decision not to charge over death of Tomlinson a "disgrace"

Top prosecution lawyers have come under fire for their decision not to press charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson.

Judicial review bid to oust secret services judge

Reprieve's lawyers are concocting a case for judicial review against Sir Peter Gibson's appointment as chairman of the torture inquiry.

Supreme Court to hear DNA profile appeal

The High Court has agreed to allow a direct appeal to the Supreme Court over the existing police policy of retaining the DNA profiles of people who are not convicted of any crime.

Locked-in syndrome sufferer challenges government over euthanasia

A locked-in syndrome sufferer is the latest applicant to challenge the government over right-to-die laws.

Border control

Two gay asylum seekers have won a Supreme Court battle against the government's 'go home and hide' policy. But does the court's stance really make Britain a 'safehaven'? Deirdre Sheahan doesn't think so

Crime of the century

Trying to cut the prison population while simultaneously starving it of legal representation is a short cut to catastrophe, writes Matthew Evans