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Court of Appeal rules that the toppling of Edward Colston’s statue was ‘violent’ and caused significant damage

The toppling of the statue to slave trader Edward Colston was a violent act of criminal damage which is not protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, senior appeal judges have ruled. The statue in Bristol was felled during a Black Lives Matter protest in June 2020, leading to…

The bronze memorial to the 17th-century slave merchant was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol on June 7 2020.

Political blogger Richard Millett, who was suing former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for libel, has dropped his case.

Wednesday, the California Supreme Court denied review in this case (for more on the lower court case, see this post by Jonathan Adler and this one by Ilya Somin); Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, joined by Justices Carol Corrigan and Joshua Groban: Our denial of a petition for review does not…

More than two million people missed out on the £20 weekly Universal Credit uplift during the pandemic.

The Kuwaiti court of appeals annulled the disqualification of three parliamentary elections candidates and suspended decisions on five others until the constitutional court reaches a ruling on the “offender” law, thus allowing all the candidates to run in the elections that will be held on Sept. 29. The court, headed…

Bus drivers working split shifts are looking to the Court of Appeal to determine when their work day begins and ends.

The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions succeeded in the majority of cases it took to the ACT Court of Appeal last financial year.