Lord Sumption previously backed a change in the law to allow assisted dying but described Kim Leadbeater’s legislation as ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Two judges of Iran’s Supreme Court were shot dead and a third wounded in Tehran on Saturday, the judiciary’s news website said. The attacker ...

While agreeing with the principle of assisted dying, Lord Sumption has been critical of the Bill before Parliament.

The ruling puts a hold on Trump's executive order until the legal process plays out, which could take months or even years.

Britain’s two biggest offshore oil and gas developments have been blocked from producing any fossil fuels after a judge ...

MPs heard from experts on the law, disability rights and end-of-life care during a second day of evidence sessions.

Senior Advocate S. Muralidhar on Friday (January 31) suggested to the Supreme Court that a secret ballot system in which all the judges of a constitutional court vote should be adopted to ...

An incredible image of a brave Iranian smiling with a noose around his neck moments before being hanged has resurfaced after two supreme court justices were shot dead. The photograph of Majid ...

The platform with nearly 170 million American users is challenging a law that would see it banned in the US in a matter of ...

A former Supreme Court judge and England’s chief medical ... of the committee session sitting in private (House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA) PA Wire Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP behind the ...

ByteDance has so far rebuffed the idea of selling TikTok. But the lawyer for the US government told the Supreme Court that a ban might be just the “jolt” needed to persuade it to consider the idea, ...