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Sadiq Khan’s ‘Streetspace’ scheme was ‘seriously flawed’ and ‘took advantage of the pandemic’ to push through ‘radical’ and permanent changes to London’s roads and should be quashed, the High Court ruled today. The judgement followed a legal challenge by organisations representing black cab drivers who were angry about being banned from a new bus-only route … Read more
The death of a former Royal Marine has been ruled an ‘unlawful killing’ almost ten years after he was stabbed, beaten and dumped in a ravine. Carl Davies, 33, was found dead on the south Indian Ocean island of Reunion on November 9, 2011 – two days after disappearing from a night out with colleagues. … Read more
Did MI6 and GCHQ allow spies to commit crimes in the UK? Intelligence chiefs may have illegally authorised British agents to carry out acts that were unlawful, tribunal hears MI6 is able to authorise spies it recruits overseas to commit crimes The Investigatory Powers Tribunal say MI6 and GCHQ may have acted illegally They cannot … Read more
A coroner has been urged to record unlawful killing verdicts into the deaths of five people who died from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by their gas cookers. Friends Richard Smith, 30, and Kevin Branton, 34, died in Saltash in November 2010, while husband and wife John and Audrey Cook, aged 90 and 86, and their … Read more
Female BBC staff past and present reacted with fury yesterday after the equality watchdog found no unlawful pay discrimination against women at the corporation. Former BBC presenter Carrie Gracie, who was at the heart of a huge equal pay row, branded the verdict by the Equality and Human Rights Commission a ‘whitewash’. The EHRC was … Read more
Ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone is savaged by official anti-Semitism report for ‘unlawful harassment’ of Jewish Labour members when he defended MP over anti-Israel Facebook post – but he blames ‘political opponents’ and the media Hard Left politician was castigated by Equality and Human Rights Commission Involved in one of two cases where EHRC ruled that … Read more
A Home Office policy which gave migrants as little as 72 hours’ notice of their impending deportation has been ruled as unlawful. The Court of Appeal found the policy created ‘an unacceptable risk of interference with the right of access to court.’ Medical Justice, a human rights’ charity, took legal action over the policy by … Read more
Police and Black Lives Matter protesters were in a tense two-hour standoff at a Louisville church on Thursday night, after the demonstrators declared the church a ‘sanctuary’ and demonstrated there when a 9pm curfew went into effect. Demonstrators massed at First Unitarian Church, where clergy allowed them to seek refuge on church grounds to avoid … Read more
The first nine days of New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown were partially unlawful, the High Court has found. Laywer Andrew Borrowdale’s case against the government was considered in July, with a decision handed down on Wednesday. A full bench of three judges waved away a string of complaints made about the lockdown’s legality. But the court … Read more
Prominent UK church leaders today branded the mass closure of churches ‘unlawful and unnecessary’ as they threatened a judicial review into keeping them shut. A coalition of Christian bishops and reverends has urged the Government to prioritise churches in its exit strategy from the coronavirus lockdown. They said it was unfair for churches to be … Read more