Law
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Cross-party committee says there is no need for a new law, adding that proposals are alarmingly vague and will lead to people being wrongly suspected
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Mike Ashley has promised to address low pay and poor conditions – but only because he was forced to
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Governor Andrew Cuomo signed ban against taxes on menstruation products, which was approved when women were not in state legislator, bill sponsor said
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Justice secretary pledges to respect rule of law, defend independence of judiciary and provide adequate resources for courts
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London force could be mislabelling youths, leading to harsher treatment by criminal justice system, MP David Lammy finds in review for PM
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Bob Neill expresses concerns about new lord chancellor and justice secretary’s lack of legal qualifications and experience
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Employment law’s ‘case of the year’ will assess claim by 19 drivers that they are not technically self-employed
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Law requires a range of skills that may seem daunting to prospective students from other academic fields – but you may be better prepared than you think
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The parcel giant’s couriers complain of low pay, no employment rights and the threat of losing their work at short notice
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Tech giant’s head of safety tells conference that enforcement staff weren’t meeting policy requirements about online threats
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Dana Nuccitelli: The fossil fuel industry copied Big Tobacco’s racketeering playbook. They’re following the same path to court, where tobacco lost
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President Erdoğan seems intent on purging his enemies. The EU must use all its diplomatic powers to steer him away from reinstating capital punishment
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While the new prime minister made a stirring call for equality in her first speech, her years at the Home Office hint at someone cavalier about civil liberties and quick to evade responsibility when it suited her
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Letters: In places like Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, inmates are regularly denied urgently needed medical treatment as a means to pressure them into ‘confessing’ to crimes
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The international criminal court is vital to our fight against impunity in Africa
Africa Group for Justice and AccountabilityThe ICC may not be perfect, but never before has so much been done on the African continent to achieve accountability for the gravest crimes -
At 23 the Scottish lawyer moved to Lahore to work at one of the few legal firms willing to defend blasphemy cases. Here she recounts her initiation into the complex – and deadly – world of Pakistan’s justice system
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NFU challenges supermarkets that ‘mislead’ consumers over the origin of imported products
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Protesters from Space Hijackers, which campaigns on public space issues, awarded up to £7,000 each after prosecutors drop case
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Nottinghamshire Police force’s decision to record sexual harassment as a hate crime has drawn some derision over the idea that trivial behaviour could be prosecuted – but it is a response to overwhelming levels of misogynistic abuse
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Other lives: Barrister who began her career in her 50s and later sat as an acting judge
Australia's weird record on human rights and the cultural divide