63 h. ago Ørsted files legal challenge against US government over windfarm lease freeze

Europe’s biggest offshore wind developer seeking to overturn White House decision to suspend work on a $5bn wind farm projectEurope’s biggest offshore wind developer is taking the Trump administration to court over its decision to suspend work on a $5bn project on the north-east US coast.Denmark’s Ørsted filed a legal challenge on Thursday against the White House’s decision 10 days ago to suspend the lease for its Revolution Wind site as part of a sweeping move halting all construction of offshore wind. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago Fury at 'sick joke' £240,000 taxpayer bill for Islamist double killer under ECHR rules after he whined that putting him in solitary for taking prison officer hostage breached his human rights

Fuad Awale was given the cash in compensation and costs by the High Court after he complained that a decision to place him in solitary confinement left him 'severely depressed'.

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69 h. ago Fury at 'sick joke' £240,000 handout for Islamist double killer under ECHR rules after he whined that putting him in solitary for taking prison officer hostage breached his human rights

In what has been branded a 'sick joke' Fuad Awale was given the cash by the High Court after he claimed that a decision to place him in solitary confinement left him 'severely depressed'.

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3 d. ago Kneecap say they 'will not be silent' and moan 'the Brits are at it again' after prosecutors appeal court decision to throw out terror case against rapper

Irish rap trio Kneecap has vowed they will 'not be silent' ahead of a further legal challenge over a court's decision to throw out the terrorism case against rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh.

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3 d. ago Kneecap ‘will not be silent’ over appeal against decision to end terror case

The rap trio said their legal team believes the appeal is ‘without any sound legal basis’.

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4 d. ago Mahmood ready to ‘robustly defend’ Begum citizenship decision to European judges

The European Court of Human Rights has demanded answers from Britain over the decision.

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4 d. ago European human rights court questions UK decision to strip Shamima Begum of citizenship

Begum’s lawyers argue she was child trafficking victim when she travelled to live under IS in Syria in 2015The European court of human rights has questioned the UK government over its 2019 decision to remove Shamima Begum’s British citizenship.Lawyers in Europe have asked how Begum’s treatment complies with the UK’s responsibilities to victims of trafficking. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Top European court demands answers from UK over stripping of Shamima Begum’s citizenship

European Court of Human Rights has asked the Home Office about the decision, after she travelled to join Islamic State as a teenager

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5 d. ago ISIS bride Shamima Begum has bid to return to UK revived with help of European human rights judges

IS bride Shamima Begum has had her bid to return to the UK revived — with the help of Euro judges. The European Court of Human Rights has formally challenged Britain’s decision to strip her of her citizenship in 2019. Begum, from Bethnal Green, East London, ran off to Syria to join IS aged 15...

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1 week ago US supreme court blocks Trump bid to deploy national guard to Chicago

In a 6-3 decision, the high court sided with a lower court ruling that blocked deployment of troops to the Illinois cityThe US supreme court refused on Tuesday to let Donald Trump send national guard troops to the Chicago area, in an important reining-in of the US president’s efforts to expand the use of the military for domestic purposes in historic moves against a growing number of Democratic-led jurisdictions.The nation’s highest court denied the US justice department’s request to lift a judge’s order in October that has blocked the deployment of hundreds of national guard personnel in a legal challenge brought by Illinois state officials and local leaders, who had opposed any federalization of those troops to offer backup to immigration enforcement. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Elon Musk’s 2018 Tesla pay package restored by Delaware court

Decision from state supreme court on deal once worth $56bn overturns ruling that prompted angry Musk backlashElon Musk’s controversial $56bn pay package from Tesla was reinstated by the Delaware supreme court on Friday, two years after a lower court struck down the vast compensation deal as “unfathomable”.The decision comes less than two months after Tesla shareholders approved a new plan that could be worth $1tn to Musk, already the world’s richest person, in a decade’s time. It overturns a ruling which had prompted a furious backlash from Musk. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Elon Musk’s massive 2018 Tesla pay package restored by Delaware court

Decision from state supreme court on deal once worth $56bn and now worth some $139bn overturns ruling that prompted angry Musk backlashElon Musk’s controversial $56bn pay package from Tesla was reinstated by the Delaware supreme court on Friday, two years after a lower court struck down the vast compensation deal as “unfathomable”.The reinstated pay package could be worth as much as $139bn today, according to the New York Times. The decision comes less than two months after Tesla shareholders approved a new plan that could be worth $1tn to Musk, already the world’s richest person, in a decade’s time. Musk’s fortune currently stands at an estimated $600bn. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Brad Pitt scores legal win as Angelina Jolie ordered to hand over private messages

Angelina Jolie has 45 days to comply with the decision in what could be a major development in the court case

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2 w. ago Court backs ruling that UK unlawfully detained Tamils on Diego Garcia

British Indian Ocean Territory commissioner’s appeal against decision last year rejected by judges in LondonAppeal court judges have backed a decision that dozens of asylum seekers were unlawfully detained on one of the world’s most remote islands, rejecting an appeal on Tuesday by the commissioner for the territory.Exactly a year ago, on 16 December 2024, a judge ruled that Tamils who arrived on the island of Diego Garcia, a UK and US military base, after a shipwreck while they were trying to reach Canada to seek asylum, were unlawfully detained there for three years in conditions described as “hell on Earth”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal | Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer

The decision means TikTok now operates under the threat that it could be forced offline with a stroke of Trump’s penJudicial opinions allowing the government to suppress speech in the name of national security rarely stand the test of time. But time has been unusually unkind to the US supreme court decision that upheld the law banning TikTok, the short-form video platform. The court issued its ruling less than a year ago, but it is already obvious that the deference the court gave to the government’s national security arguments was spectacularly misplaced. The principal effect of the court’s ruling has been to give our own government enormous power over the policies of a speech platform used by tens of millions of Americans every day – a result that is an affront to the first amendment and a national security risk in its own right.Congress passed the TikTok ban in 2023 citing concerns that the Chinese government might be able to access information about TikTok’s American users or co...

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2 w. ago Pussy Riot labelled ‘extremist organisation’ in latest Kremlin crackdown

Decision follows a court judgment that saw five members of the group sentenced in absentia to up to 13 years in jail

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3 w. ago Euan McColm: I could say Sandie Peggie tribunal judge Sandy Kemp was an idiot

Tribunal ruling contained bizarre and downright wrong assertions and seemed to have misinterpreted Supreme Court’s decision on gender ID

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3 w. ago Turkish student allowed to resume research after visa revoked by Trump administration

The student said while she is grateful for the court's decision, she feels “a great deal of grief”

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3 w. ago Australia deporting refugee to Nauru may cause his ‘imminent’ and ‘preventable’ death, court hears

Legal team of man who was part of cohort of non-citizens freed after high court decision argues Nauru’s medical facilities are ‘insufficient’ to treat his severe asthmaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLawyers for an Iranian refugee Australia wants to deport to Nauru say there is a “real risk he will die” there, setting the stage for a showdown against the federal government’s $2.5bn NZYQ deal.The case surrounding the Iranian refugee, known as TXCM, who was granted a 30-year visa for Nauru in February and subsequently placed back into immigration detention after being freed by the 2023 high court ruling, was heard in the high court on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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