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A Judge by name is new Lord Chief Justice

Country's most senior judge believes that knife crime had risen to epidemic proportions and must be tackled by the courts

Judge is Britain's new top judge

Sir Igor Judge will take over from Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers as Lord Chief Justice, head of the judiciary in England and Wales

Analysis: Words of reason to cool Muslims row

The Lord Chief Justice's speech went far wider than the issue of Sharia within British society

Lord Chief Justice lays down law on Sharia

Most senior judge declares there is no place for Sharia courts as all residents are governed by laws of England and Wales

Dwain Chambers’s legal sprint for a place in Team GB

What are the arguments likely to be used by the athlete’s legal team? Alex Wade reports

Senior judge calls for jail alternatives

Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers argues that inmates with mental problems would be better off in a psychiatric institution

Gurkhas lose High Court battle over pensions

Former Gurkha soldiers today lost their test case for equal pension rights with the rest of the British Army

Mosley defeats challenge to orgy privacy case

Judge said case was area of developing jurisprudence and ruling should be made after all the facts had been heard

Barrister jailed for £17.5m aircraft scam

John Wilmot has been sentenced to five years for a 'massive' VAT fraud involving the sale of four imaginary Boeing engines

Chagos Islands exiles continue their fight

2,000-strong population of the Chagos Islands ask the House of Lords for the right to return to their homeland

Witness anonymity: a slippery slope

The law lords were right, says a barrister involved in the landmark case that has thrown the justice system into chaos

Judges won't deny right to a fair trial

It is impossible to square anonymity with defendants' rights. So we need another solution

Anonymity law to be pushed through Parliament

Jack Straw says emergency Bill to allow trial witnesses to give anonymous evidence will be published next week

Pakistan: can the ‘black coats’ restore democracy?

The restoration of the judiciary was a central theme of the new government. Why it now threatens to split the country

The fine line between tolerance and political correctness

Is there a place for Sharia in Western jurisprudence?

Top Asian policeman makes race claims

Ian Blair faces questions today after Britain’s most senior Asian officer alleges bullying that goes right to the top of the Met

In court today

Sentence due on Fadi Nasri and others for murder of Nasri’s wife, special constable Nisha Patel-Nasri, outside her home

Emergency law planned to halt courts meltdown

An estimated 40 murder cases are at risk after judges ruled that granting witnesses anonymity could make trials unfair

Anonymity is chief weapon against gangs

A national witness mobility service has rehoused witnesses and their families safely in about 500 cases

The erosion of a basic right

Judges first accepted a departure from open justice when two British Army corporals were murdered in West Belfast in 1988