4 h. ago Ethnic minority suspects are being given priority for bail under 'two

Judges and magistrates are being told to prioritise those groups because they may be at 'disproportionately higher risk' if they are held in custody.

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36 h. ago Britain's Got Talent judge breaks silence on show return after telling off from producers

Britain's Got Talent judges Amanda Holden and KSI discussed the possibility of him joining the show as a permanent judge, after he temporarily stood in for Simon Cowell and Bruno Tonioli during the 2024 auditions

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64 h. ago Everything the judge told Marcin Majerkiewicz as he locked up body parts killer for life

Majerkiewicz was sentenced to at least 34 years

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5 d. ago Jadon Sancho to Chelsea saga takes huge twist as Man Utd star 'issues transfer request'

Manchester United are waiting on Chelsea to decide whether they will press ahead with a deal to sign Jadon Sancho permanently with the player also considering his options

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5 d. ago Sobbing adult model's family told to 'calm down' after shouting 'f*** off' at judge

Ellie Rixon, 20, was said to have created the "content" in order to fund her drug habit, despite the other girl involved being "incapable of consenting" due to her age

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1 week ago Iraqi asylum seeker was allowed to stay in Britain after immigration judge 'confused' his home country with Iran, tribunal told

A tribunal in Cardiff heard the man had made anti-Iraq government posts on his public Facebook account and argued he would be subject to persecution on his return.

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1 week ago Trump’s press secretary attacks federal judge in deportation case by name and calls him ‘Democrat activist’ – live

Karoline Leavitt singles out James Boasberg in briefing attacking federal judges as court battle over deportations continuesDemocratic congressman Glenn Ivey told constituents at a town hall meeting in his Maryland district that Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s Democratic minority leader, should step down from his position after a bitter intraparty fight over government funding last week, HuffPost reports.Ivey is the first member of Congress to say Schumer should leave his leadership position, after the leader supplied enough votes to pass a Republican-backed government funding bill through the Senate. House Democrats had near-unanimously rejected the measure, and many in the party believe Schumer, who argued the bill was better than allowing a shutdown that could be exploited by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, gave up leverage he could have used against the administration. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump waging ‘sickening’ psychological war, deported Venezuelan’s lawyer says

One detained man’s lawyer says he is gay artist who had fled persecution in his home country, not a gang memberA lawyer for one of the Venezuelan immigrants sent from the US to a notorious mega prison in El Salvador has accused the Trump administration of waging a “sickening” campaign of psychological warfare against asylum seekers and migrants.“In my 15 years of representing people in removal proceedings in the United States, this is the most shocking thing that I’ve ever seen happen to one of our clients,” said Lindsay Toczylowski, a California-based lawyer for the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) group. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Romanian rapist wanted in his homeland for driving offence avoids deportation after judge told sending him back would aggravate his PTSD

The man, known only as ZA, arrived in Britain in 2018 and applied for settled status on the basis he had a partner in the UK, but he did not tell authorities about his criminal past.

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2 w. ago ‘I deserve death,’ an Alabama murderer told a judge. Now he’s getting his wish

‘I’m tired. I want to complete my sentence,’ James Osgood said

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2 w. ago Prue Leith's Bake Off absence explained as real reason for exit revealed

Prue Leith has told viewers that she will not be judging the latest series of Celebrity Great British Bake Off and explained why she has been replaced by one of her close friends

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2 w. ago Judges told to consider how migrants are represented in press when deciding cases

The guide, led by Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, states that 'negative perceptions of migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum are fuelled by parts of the press and some political debate'.

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2 w. ago Armed police went to a mother and son's house. Then it all kicked off

A judge told the defendants that rather than complying with the requests of the firearms officers they had "stupidly" decided to abuse and challenge them.

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2 w. ago Moment UN judge who forced woman to work as slave claims ‘immunity’ to police

A United Nations judge who forced a young woman to work as her slave told police “I even have immunity” as she was arrested at her home.

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2 w. ago Calls grow for Labour to abolish Sentencing Council amid 'two

In updated principles published by the Sentencing Council last week, judges were told to consider a defendant's ethnicity when deciding whether to send them to jail.

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2 w. ago Murdered schoolgirl Sara Sharif's father and stepmother lose appeal bid for shorter sentences

Sara Sharif’s father Urfan Sharif should be locked up for the rest of his life, judges have been told.

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2 w. ago Deported Ghanaian fraudster can return to the UK after he became depressed, judge rules

Samuel Frimpong was jailed for four months for using false documents to try and 'circumvent' the leave to remain rules, an immigration judge (pictured) was told.

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2 w. ago Sara Sharif's father should be locked up for whole life, Court of Appeal judges told

Sara Sharif’s father Urfan Sharif should be locked up for the rest of his life, judges have been told.

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2 w. ago Convicted Ghanaian pastor who used fake documents to stay in UK should be allowed back in because separation from children made him depressed, judge says

Samuel Frimpong was jailed for four months for using false documents to try and 'circumvent' the leave to remain rules, an immigration judge (pictured) was told.

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2 w. ago Woman who was declared dead appears during court probate row saying 'I'm very much alive'

A long-running probate wrangle was upended after the 'dead' woman – Nigerian-born June Ashimola – gave evidence in the High Court in London and told a judge that she was alive

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