5 h. ago Mark Kelly pledges to fight Hegseth’s attempt to demote him as he slams the Trump admin as ‘petty’

Pete Hegseth announced plans to slash Mark Kelly’s retirement pay after the veteran and senator warned US troops that they had an obligation to refuse ‘illegal orders’

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4 d. ago Top lawyer who mentored Sir Keir Starmer condemns Prime Minister's plans to curb jury trials

Edward Fitzgerald KC (pictured) said it was 'most unfortunate' that Labour was planning to get rid of juries for all but the most serious criminal offences in a bid to cut through the courts backlog.

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1 week ago Russell Brand jokes about upcoming court case as he attacks government bid to axe jury trials hours after he was charged with two new counts of rape and sexual assault

The comedian and actor took to YouTube with a 16-minute video railing against UK Government plans to limit the use of jury trials.

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2 w. ago LIVE updates as jury in trial of men accused of plotting mass murder of Jews in Manchester to return verdicts

Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein deny the charges

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2 w. ago LIVE updates as Islamic State fanatics who plotted mass murder of Jews in Manchester found GUILTY

Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein denied the charges

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2 w. ago Mikel Arteta backs ‘unbelievable’ Gabriel Jesus to get best out of Arsenal with star ready to start first game in a year

MIKEL ARTETA has backed “unbelievable” Gabriel Jesus to get the best out of Arsenal’s attack. Jesus, 28, is fit to start his first game in nearly a year after injuring his knee in January. The striker is set to come into the Arsenal team for their Carabao Cup quarter-final against Crystal Palace tomorrow night. And...

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2 w. ago Jury in trial of men accused of terror plot sent out to consider verdicts

Walid Saadaoui, 38, and his co-accused, Amar Hussein, 52, of no fixed abode, deny terror charges

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2 w. ago Inside London’s crippling court delays as Labour moves to cut back jury trials

Labour is bringing the axe down on jury trials, but people in court tell a different story of where the chronic delays come from

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2 w. ago Murder trial of woman accused of murdering husband collapses after jury deadlock

Daryl Berman, 71, was accused of stabbing her 84-year-old husband David to death at their home but she said it was an accident

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2 w. ago Arsenal suffer new injury blow in nightmare Mikel Arteta scenario as return date set

Kai Havertz has been sidelined since August with a knee injury, but the Arsenal striker is now expected to be out of action until early to mid-January after a setback in his recovery

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2 w. ago Starmer facing new rebellion as dozens of Labour MPs sign letter against scrapping jury trials

After the welfare rebellion before the summer, Sir Keir Starmer has a new challenge to his authority on court reform

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2 w. ago Dozens of Labour MPs say they will rebel over David Lammy's plans to axe jury trials as they urge Starmer to 'think again'

The UK Justice Secretary announced plans to reserve jury trials only for when defendants faced serious charges such as rape and murder.

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer faces huge threat of rebellion as dozens of MPs slam 'madness' jury plan

Keir Starmer is facing the threat of a rebellion from angry Labour MPs over plans to reduce the number of cases that go to jury trials - the MPs have sent him a warning letter

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2 w. ago Starmer faces threat of rebellion from Labour MPs over jury trial plans

Thirty-nine Labour MPs have put their name to an open letter which brands the proposals ‘an ineffective way of dealing with the crippling backlog’.

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3 w. ago Reform UK vows to sack Civil Service bosses under plans to slash headcount by almost 70,000 people if it wins the next election

Danny Kruger said there will be 'real change' among the 'Permanent Secretary class' if Nigel Farage becomes the next prime minister.

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3 w. ago The Pogues and Kneecap join stars backing prison hunger strike in warning to Starmer

Kneecap, Sally Rooney and The Pogues lead 200 stars in a furious warning to Keir Starmer, demanding he act immediately to save hunger strikers in UK jails from a 'life or death' crisis

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3 w. ago ‘Even bankers aren’t taking that much’: Bosman at 30 and what the future holds for transfers

Revolution is still being sought three decades after the landmark ruling with a Dutch lawyer calling for a collective bargaining agreement for playersOn 15 December 1995, judges at the European court of justice (CJEU) took two minutes to bring an end to a legal process that had lasted five years. The Bosman rule, as it was known, was to stand, the judges said. European football clubs were no longer allowed to demand transfer fees for players whose contracts had expired, with governing bodies stopped from capping the number of Europeans in any team. The man whose dogged legal pursuit had brought about these changes, Jean‑Marc Bosman, emerged from a crowd of cameras and well‑wishers to give his verdict. “I have got to the top of the mountain and I am now very tired,” he said.For Bosman himself, it was downhill from there. “In the past I got a lot of promises but never received anything,” he told the Observer in 2015, claiming he “earned nothing” from the changes that ensued. He went b...

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3 w. ago ‘It’s not a coincidence’: journalists of color on being laid off amid Trump’s anti

Black and brown former employees from CBS, NBC and Teen Vogue talk about the effects of being let goTrey Sherman was traveling to work on the New York subway when he received an email from David Reiter, a CBS News executive, about an imminent meeting on 29 October. Sherman, an associate producer of CBS Evening News Plus at the time, suspected that he would be laid off. CBS News’s parent company, Paramount, had closed a merger with the Hollywood studio Skydance in August, and planned to slash more than 2,000 jobs as part of corporate restructuring.Sherman, who is Black, and Reiter, who is white, had an amicable conversation, according to Sherman. Reiter told Sherman that he was being laid off because his show was being eliminated, Sherman said, and that Reiter was unable to assign the team to other positions. Sherman accepted the news and the two men wished each other good luck. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Inside Gabriel Jesus's return to fitness at Arsenal ... but what role is left for him in the team?

Brazil striker has been sidelined since January with knee injury

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4 w. ago Benjamin Sesko's agent speaks out on TV as Man Utd sent telling message

The Manchester United striker has missed four Premier League games with a knee injury since picking up the problem against Tottenham but he is nearing a return to action

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