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Ban on 'meet the extraterrestrials' poster not breach of human rights

Strasbourg court upholds ban as dissenting judges warn of threat to free speech

High Court rejects English badger cull judicial review

Court 'being invited to interfere unduly in the political or administrative decision-making process'

Strasbourg ruling in Abu Qatada case was the right outcome

The Strasbourg court's ruling in the Abu Qatada case may have been a bitter pill to 'swallow but it is the price to pay for the rule of law, says Amir Majid

Tales from practice | We call them chaps

New requirements imposed by Whitehall bureaucrats in ?the name of the nation's safety will suck the blood out of ?local life in villages across Britain, says Richard Barr

Battling the surveillance state

The High Court has ruled that the policy on the retention of personal data is unlawful, and warned of its negative impact. So why, instead of issuing new guidance that would have cracked down on police overstepping the mark, has the government chosen to champion new legislation that will similarly trample the rights of innocent people? Anna Mazzola and Najma Rasul report

Are the UK's sanctions against Iran's state bank legitimate?

The Supreme Court has granted private shareholders of Bank Mellat permission to intervene in the bank's challenge to HM Treasury over the financial restrictions order it has imposed on it, which they say is unlawful and in breach of international public policy. Sarosh Zaiwalla explores their arguments

Mandatory membership of local hunt breaches property rights

Property owners opposed to hunting should not be forced to allow it on their land

English badger cull judicial review begins

Defra accused of 'flat earth' approach to evidence