Reduced provision of free legal advice will result in fewer opportunities to challenge the effects of government decisions
Country tries to restore reputation after banking fiasco
Afua Hirsch: The council's power is increasingly obvious, but what it will take to bring the organisation out of obscurity is more unclear
A bill of rights that included people's socioeconomic needs could challenge government policy decisions
Afua Hirsch: US to join discussions as interested observer despite not having signed up to Rome statute that created court
A Scottish police unit's work in reducing domestic violence is laudable, but has troubling implications for the presumption of innocence
Nick Clegg's TV debating success and a Scottish documentary both show the benefits of opening English trials to the cameras
Afua Hirsch: Lotfi Raissi's case is a disastrous example of the government trying to circumvent human rights protection
Afua Hirsch: Lord Carey's call that only judges with sensitivity to faith issues should hear such cases must be resisted
It's six months since it opened, yet it's still attracting much less attention than its US equivalent
Government proposals to overhaul libel system show problems of allowing freedom of expression while protecting individuals
Marcel Berlins: The judiciary remains short of women and ethnic minority members but prejudice is not to blame – the problem is in finding enough good candidates
Marcel Berlins: Media coverage of report on juries ignored the document's main point and mangled its other findings
Marcel Berlins: Why a new book about Britain's greatest constitutional riddle should be compulsory reading for MPs – and everyone else
Marcel Berlins: Celebrities who try to stop newspapers revealing their affairs still have a chance of getting injunctions on privacy grounds
The problem with indeterminate sentences, such as those in the Doncaster torture case, is that it is the minimum figure that sticks in people's minds
Marcel Berlins: Lord Justice Rupert Jackson favours the 'interests of the public' over the professionals in litigation
Marcel Berlins: With four accused of robbery to be tried by judge without jury, lawyers are concerned the case marks an erosion of civil liberties
