Ukip took a “deliberate, informed and calculated” decision to ensure that a defamation action brought by Rotherham’s three Labour MPs should not be settled before the General Election, the High
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A woman who wanted to stop medics giving her 13-year-old autistic son an antipsychotic drug has lost a family court fight. The teenager, who has a severe learning disability, was
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Serial paedophile Barry Bennell has been convicted of abusing more young footballers after grooming them with claims that he could fulfil their dreams of a career in the sport. The
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A former victim of Barry Bennell’s abuse told jurors that ex-Wales manager Gary Speed and three other men linked to the paedophile coach when they were young footballers had gone
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Six police officers and staff will face misconduct proceedings following the death of a man with mental health problems in police custody. A Devon and Cornwall Police sergeant, two detention
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A woman who wanted a new partner to adopt her 11-year-old son and dishonestly told a social worker that she did not know who the boy’s father was has been
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The most senior family court judge in England and Wales is to review a separated couple’s decade-long dispute over access to their daughter after an appeal by the youngster’s father.
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A man sold into slavery as a child has won a court victory as judges declared that guidance on immigration rules for trafficking victims was unlawful. Three senior Appeal Court
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A mother is facing a life sentence for murder after battering to death her “helpless and vulnerable” baby daughter two hours after social services care workers left her home alone
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An independent social worker – who assessed four children whose mother was jailed after taking them to the Syrian border – has come under fire from a High Court judge
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