Justice

‘I might believe it is wrong to work on the Sabbath but I cannot expect the law to enforce that belief in Britain’

Our Mole says the new Policing and Crime Act has made life more dangerous for sex workers

‘At a stroke, the Lord Chief Justice and two senior judges tipped the balance in favour of writers in a libel case’

‘Although anyone can set up shop as a mediator, the process depends hugely on the skills of the person conveying offers from one side to the other’

‘The task of reversing the damage to “Broken Britain” may be beyond the ability of any political party, let alone any single leader’

‘The DPP’s robust response to the four parliamentarians charged with false accounting amounted to “See you in court”’

Campaigners to legalise assisted suicide invoke the principle of arbitrary autonomy. This threatens to give us a radically libertarian society at the expense of a humane one

‘Retired civil servants often bite hand that used to feed them, especially when answering questions from one of their own’

The weasel words of the European Convention are undermining our ancient liberties. David Cameron is right to demand reform

Our justice system suffers from a sentimental preoccupation with legally irrelevant testimony to victims’ personalities