29 h. ago Irish teacher who refused to 'call a boy a girl' in trans row will remain in jail for Christmas, judge rules

Enoch Burke has been detained in Mountjoy Prison since late November for breaches of a court order directing him not to trespass at Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath.

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51 h. ago Trans girls will no longer able to join Girl Guides or Brownies after parents threatened legal action over inclusion policy

Girlguiding said it had made the decision following the Supreme Court ruling in April which said the words women and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological women and biological sex.

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57 h. ago I served time with twisted Southport killer – and know exactly why the next 52 years of his life will be a living hell

AXEL Rudakubana’s appalling crimes not only shocked the nation, they cemented his position as Britain’s most hated inmate. The knife-obsessed teen is now facing his first Christmas in jail since being handed a minimum term of 52 years for the murders of three schoolgirls at a dance class in Southport in July last year, and...

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63 h. ago Workers who are sensitive to rejection can sue for disability discrimination, tribunal judgment rules

Ryan Toghill began working at Lidl in Newport (pictured), Monmouthshire, in October 2019 but was unfairly dismissed for reasons relating to his ADHD, a judge has found.

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63 h. ago Workers who are sensitive to rejection can sue for disability discrimination, tribunal judgement rules

Ryan Toghill began working at Lidl in Newport (pictured), Monmouthshire, in October 2019 but was unfairly dismissed for reasons relating to his ADHD, a judge has found.

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3 d. ago Trans sex offender who abused a teenage girl before saying he was a woman called Natalie is held in male prison

Natalie Wolf was previously known as Ryan Haley but adopted the female moniker sometime after attacking the girl several years ago.

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3 d. ago Bangladesh court sentences UK MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in prison in absentia

Siddiq, who serves as an MP for Hampstead and Highgate in London, has denied the allegationsA court in Bangladesh has sentenced the British MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail after a judge ruled she was complicit in corrupt land deals with her aunt, the country’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.In a ruling on Monday, a judge found Siddiq, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, guilty of misusing her “special influence” as a British politician to coerce Hasina into giving valuable pieces of land to her mother, brother and sister. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Lessons not learned after Georgia Barter driven to suicide by abuse, says her mother

Family ‘saddened’ by minister’s response to London coroner’s concerns over police database accessGeorgia’s story: how a domestic abuse victim’s suicide was ruled an unlawful killing by her partnerThe family of a woman judged to have been unlawfully killed by her partner after she took her own life following years of domestic abuse has said “lessons have still not been learnt” after the government indicated it would not make changes to how officers use the police national database.An inquest earlier this year found that Georgia Barter, 32, experienced years of abuse at the hands of Thomas Bignell.• In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Albanian immigrant living in UK illegally can stay because deportation would be 'unduly harsh' on daughter who he 'spent a lot of time taking to ballet', judge rules

The Albanian national, 40, who was granted anonymity, was previously deported from Britain but re-entered the country and has lived here unlawfully since 2016.

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6 d. ago ICC judges to rule on provisional release of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte could be released from detention at the International Criminal Court on Friday

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8 d. ago Countdown champion who stabbed rival in 'terrifying incident' learns fate

Former Countdown champion John Cowen, who stabbed a rival in the arm, will be detained in hospital for an 'indefinite duration', a judge has ruled

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8 d. ago This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones

Three ICC judges have been put on a sanctions list with terrorists after approving an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister. This is the charade of the ‘rules-based order’The fate of one French judge is a case study in the west’s long unravelling. Nicolas Guillou cannot shop online. When he used Expedia to book a hotel in his own country, the reservation was cancelled within hours. He is “blacklisted by much of the world’s banking system”, unable to use most bank cards.Guillou, you see, has been sanctioned by the United States, putting him on a 15,000-strong list alongside al-Qaida terrorists, drug cartels and Vladimir Putin. Why? Because alongside two other judges of the international criminal court pre-trial chamber I, he approved arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and Mohammed Deif, the former commander of Hamas’s military wing. Guillou and his colleagues had “actively engaged in the ICC’s illegitima...

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9 d. ago Federal judge says immigration officers in Colorado can only arrest those at risk of fleeing

A federal judge has ruled that immigration officers in Colorado can only arrest people without a warrant if they think those people are likely to flee

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9 d. ago Met Police ‘don’t want to know’ about Muriel McKay case, says daughter

A High Court judge ruled that the family cannot perform a radar scan of a shared back garden in east London where they believe she is buried.

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9 d. ago Muriel McKay’s family cannot scan London garden for her remains, judge rules

Ms McKay was kidnapped for ransom and murdered in 1969 but her body has never been discovered.

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1 week ago Australian judge rules synagogue arsonist was motivated by mental illness, not antisemitism

An Australian magistrate says a man who set fire to a Melbourne synagogue door while worshippers were inside was motivated by mental illness rather than antisemitism

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2 w. ago Judge criticizes federal prosecutors for relying on testimony by officer with credibility concerns

A federal judge has ruled that police in the nation’s capital illegally seized a gun from a man they stopped outside a laundromat

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2 w. ago Judge to rule on whether to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration custody

A federal judge in Maryland says she will rule as soon as possible on whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia can be released from immigration custody

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2 w. ago Felipe Massa’s £64m claim over 2008 F1 title can go to trial, rules judge

F1, FIA and Bernie Ecclestone are defending the claimsBrazilian former driver says he is the rightful winnerFelipe Massa’s £64m claim against Formula One, its governing body the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone over Lewis Hamilton’s first F1 world championship in 2008 can go to trial, a high court judge has ruled.Massa claims he is the rightful champion after the Brazilian lost by a single point when Nelson Piquet Jr deliberately crashed at the Singapore Grand Prix. Ecclestone, who was F1’s impresario for four decades before he was deposed in 2017, suggested in 2023 that the sport’s executives were aware of the cover-up – which became known as Crashgate – before the 2008 campaign concluded. The 95-year-old Ecclestone, the FIA and Formula One Management are defending the claims. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Felipe Massa’s £64m claim over Crashgate can go to trial, rules judge

F1, FIA and Bernie Ecclestone are defending the claimsBrazilian former driver says he is rightful 2008 winnerFelipe Massa’s £64m claim against Formula One, its governing body the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone over Lewis Hamilton’s first F1 world championship in 2008 can go to trial, a high court judge has ruled.Massa claims he is the rightful champion after the Brazilian lost by a single point when Nelson Piquet Jr deliberately crashed at the Singapore Grand Prix. Ecclestone, who was F1’s impresario for four decades before he was deposed in 2017, suggested in 2023 that the sport’s executives were aware of the cover-up – which became known as Crashgate – before the 2008 campaign concluded. The 95-year-old Ecclestone, the FIA and Formula One Management are defending the claims. Continue reading...

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