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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

Sound advice

As the dust of Levicom settles, it is just a case of keep calm and carry on, say Georgina Squire and Juliet Schalker

Update: costs

Naming the wrong defendant on your CFA agreement can be a costly business, writes Simon Gibbs

Update: children

Noel Arnold looks at developments in special guardianship and which way the pendulum of leave to remove precedent is currently swinging

Genial justice

New brooms indeed: Kenneth Clarke has given us all plenty to think about. We live in strange times when the old bang 'em up Tories are thinking creatively and having photo-shoots on A Wing with some of the inmates, while the numbers locked up in the Labour years has rocketed from where it was when the Conservatives were last in power.

The game changer

Ken Clarke's plans for penal reform represent a positive step away from dead end policy, writes Andrew Neilson