Journalists should routinely be allowed to use Twitter and send texts and e-mail from smart phones from courtrooms while covering legal news, the most senior judge in the United Kingdom…
A High Court judge in London has denied an appeal by prosecutors seeking to keep WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in jail pending extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges.
Filmmaker Michael Moore contributed $20,000 of his own money to help bail WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of a London jail where he is being held on Swedish sex crimes…
In a British court hearing that was live-tweeted, with the permission of the judge, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website was granted bail today.
Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denies, through his legal counsel, that he had anything to do with recent hack attacks on organizations perceived as hostile to his website. And he…
A University of Illinois law professor thinks a change in lawyer regulations could help middle-class defendants who are being targeted in mass foreclosures and debt-collection suits.
The top 10 law firms in London have cut starting pay for newly qualified attorneys by about 10 percent this year. In U.S. dollars, at the current exchange rate, they…
In what is being billed as a first-of-its-kind move by a top 20 London-based law firm, partners of CMS Cameron McKenna voted this week to eliminate its entire “back office”…
Following today’s news of a royal engagement between Prince William and his longtime girlfriend, Kate Middleton, comes speculation about whether the two will have a prenuptial agreement.
A British man convicted of sending a menacing communication for a Twitter rant lost a bid to overturn his conviction last week, but gained supporters who posted Twitter threats to…
On the cutting edge of constitutional law, a straight couple in the United Kingdom is suing for the right to tie the knot in a civil union rather than a…