A court ruling granting LGBTIQ groups equal status has been condemned by the president and fiercely debated online

Exclusive: Liberty, Unison and Mermaids among groups sending ‘distress signal’ as UN begins living standards probe

Insulate Britain members have been found guilty of ignoring a judge's ban on telling a jury why they were protesting

Climate activists will be tried for telling a jury that the climate emergency led them to stage a road-block protest

Human rights conditions in the Russian-backed separatist enclave have been deteriorating since the invasion of Ukraine

Idaho Republicans are trying for the second time to ban gender-affirming healthcare for minors. Will they succeed?

OPINION: Taxpayers are still being billed huge sums for controversial expenses, from MPs’ PR to business class flights

Britain’s highest court has maintained that certain landlords don't have to pay back rent if tenancy rules are broken

Experts slam the government’s £1.5m plan to create more jail places in England as prisoners’ self-harm rates soar

Lawyer convicted in US probe into Russian election meddling was hired by UK firm that represented warlord Prigozhin

Judge Silas Reid has again ruled that protesters can’t address the climate emergency in their legal defence

Patriarchal values and weak laws made Romania the ideal place for Tate’s criminal pursuits, say local feminists

Prisoners are spending long hours in overcrowded cells without any rehabilitation activities, damning new reports warn

Government’s anti-gang measures are threatening the innocent, vulnerable and marginalised, say human rights groups

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The undercover policing inquiry is downplaying spying on trade unions and government involvement in blacklisting

‘Constant hatred from news outlets and social media influencers has caused more and more fear around trans people’

Vulnerable people are losing money to the ‘infinite income’ scheme, while authorities fail to act

Only Hungary – condemned for violations of democracy – has put the same restrictions on workers, lawyers say

OPINION: An activist is in jail for mentioning the climate crisis in court. Our judicial system is enabling the state

Exclusive: Not Our Future’s David Fleming ran firms accused of fraud, including one that promised a Covid death audit