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Judicial review launched to save English badgers

The Badger Trust launched a judicial review today to try and prevent English badgers being culled by DEFRA to control the spread of bovine TB.

Pub landlady's copyright convictions quashed in TV football ruling

The High Court has quashed copyright convictions imposed on pub landlady Karen Murphy for using a Greek satellite decoder card to show live Premier League games.

Supreme Court goes beyond Strasbourg in right-to-life ruling

Hospital owed duty under article 2 to voluntary psychiatric patient

Licensing update

Roy Light considers the procedure for appeals from licensing authorities to the magistrates' court, reforms to the licensing regime and the latest edition of Paterson's

Badger Trust prepares way for legal challenge to English cull

The Badger Trust has said this morning that it has written to DEFRA giving notice of the grounds of a legal challenge it intends to pursue against a planned cull of badgers in England to reduce bovine TB.

Voluntary psychiatric patient had 'right to life', Supreme Court decides

The Supreme Court has ruled that the NHS is under a duty to protect the rights to life of suicidal psychiatric patients, even if they are in hospital voluntarily.

Knowing right from wrong

Susanna Fitzgerald tackles the extent to which magistrates' courts can overturn decisions by licensing authorities at appeal

Supreme Court refuses to hear library closure appeal

The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by campaigners against library closures because it does not “raise an arguable point of law of general public importance”.