Raheem Sterling assault charge dropped after witness no-show

Raheem Sterling had a charge of common assault dropped today after a witness failed to turn up to court. Sterling, 18, did not have to appear at Liverpool magistrates' court and the case was dismissed when the prosecutor Rob Jones offered no evidence. The Liverpool winger had been accused of assaulting a woman in...

guardian.co.uk (3 days ago)

The RSPCA tried to ruin my life, says top barrister: A decade of accusations - and a £1m legal...

Cambridge-educated Jonathan Rich, who defended hundreds of people against the RSPCA over 20 years, said he has spent almost £1million defending professional allegations made by the charity about his conduct.

dailymail.co.uk (4 days ago)

MP attacks head of Hacked Off for 'acting to stifle free speech during his legal career by...

Liberal Democrat John Hemming has condemned Hugh Tomlinson QC (pictured), the barrister who has led Hacked Off's call for state-backed regulation of the press, for his role in bringing legal injunctions on behalf of footballer Ryan Giggs and banker Fred Goodwin.

dailymail.co.uk (5 days ago)

Simon Hopkinson: I drank Sarson's vinegar from the bottle from a young age

My earliest memory is sucking a wine gum on Sidmouth beach and a wasp, attracted by the smell, flying into my mouth and stinging my inside lip. It was just horrendous. Having parents who both cooked was rare in the 50s and 60s. Mum, a teacher, made homely things like bramble pie and rice pudding. On Saturday nights...

guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)

Sally Bercow pleads innocence over Lord McAlpine Twitter storm

Sally Bercow, the speaker's wife, has claimed that she was merely asking an innocent question about Lord McAlpine on Twitter during a media frenzy over a Newsnight programme that wrongly linked him to sexual abuse in Wales. During the first stage of a libel trial over a tweet she sent last year, her barrister told...

guardian.co.uk (7 days ago)

Ruth Field: how to sort your life

Criminal barrister Ruth Field, aka The Gr!t Doctor, offers tough talk and frank advice in her new book.    

telegraph.co.uk (7 days ago)

Stop whining and just do it! How one woman really got her sh*t together

Most people might object to a complete stranger walking into their home and rifling through their cupboards searching for signs of chaos. But Ruth Field welcomes my intrusion into her Muswell Hill home with open arms. The 37-year-old criminal barrister turned self-help guru has, after all, just written a book called...

standard.co.uk (8 days ago)

Leveson inquiry lawyers face questions

A barrister for the Leveson inquiry is facing more questions over her relationship with another lawyer involved in the hearings after...

thetimes.co.uk (10 days ago)

Daniel Ben-Horin: Kenya Balancing Act: Human Rights, Civil Society, Neo-Colonialism, and Democracy

What are we to make of Uhuru Kenyatta's (and his fellow International Criminal Court (ICC) indictee, William Ruto's) recent election to the highest offices in Kenya? Many in the West consider the two to be warlords in suits, whose ignorant tribesmen followers would have voted for them if their fingernails were...

huffingtonpost.com (10 days ago)

Nurses 'must do more to prevent patient neglect' says expert but doctors and managers are taking...

Robert Francis, a barrister who specialises in medical negligence, said he was concerned the nursing profession was failing to make urgent improvements. (file picture)

dailymail.co.uk (10 days ago)

Fresh questions for Leveson over lawyers' affair: MP says celebrity barrister's lover 'DID help...

MP Rob Wilson wrote to the judge last night casting doubt on assurances that Inquiry lawyer Carine Patry Hoskins (pictured) had no input into his findings.

dailymail.co.uk (10 days ago)

Tory MP earns almost £1m outside Parliament

A Conservative MP has been topping up his backbencher's salary with earnings of almost £1 million as a barrister over the past two years, it has emerged.    

telegraph.co.uk (11 days ago)

Reacting to child abuse by lowering the age of consent would be cruel | Ellie Cumbo

The latest aftershock in the wake of the Jimmy Savile and Rochdale revelations has been not another celebrity name on the list of accused, but an attempt to dismiss an apparent watershed moment as little more than a moral panic. Barrister Barbara Hewson writes in Spiked magazine that Operation Yewtree, heralded by...

guardian.co.uk (13 days ago)

Abu Qatada extradition latest: Radical cleric reveals he will return to Jordan voluntarily if its...

Abu Qatada will leave Britain voluntarily if a new law banning the use of torture evidence in Jordan is passed, his barrister revealed today.

independent.co.uk (13 days ago)

Abu Qatada extradition latest: Radical cleric reveals he will return to Jordan if its parliament...

Abu Qatada will leave Britain voluntarily if a new law banning the use of torture evidence in Jordan is passed, his barrister revealed today.

independent.co.uk (13 days ago)

Abu Qatada reveals he will return to Jordan if its parliament agrees anti-torture treaty

Abu Qatada will leave Britain voluntarily if a new law banning the use of torture evidence in Jordan is passed, his barrister revealed today.

independent.co.uk (13 days ago)

Lawyer defiant in row over age of consent

A barrister who sparked outrage by calling for the age of consent to be lowered to 13 in the wake of the Savile scandal today compared herself with journalist Andrew Gilligan.

standard.co.uk (14 days ago)

Abu Qatada pledges to 'voluntarily' leave Britain if Jordan signs treaty on torture evidence

The hate preacher's barrister Edward Fitzgerald QC made the offer at an immigration tribunal hearing in London today, which will decide if he can leave prison.

dailymail.co.uk (14 days ago)

Abu Qatada 'will voluntarily go back to Jordan when new treaty is ratified'

The radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada will voluntarily go back to Jordan if and when its parliament ratifies a new deportation treaty with Britain, his lawyers have said. The disclosure is a major breakthrough for the home secretary, Theresa May, in her battle to deport the cleric. The treaty with the Jordanians,...

guardian.co.uk (14 days ago)

Outrage at barrister who called Stuart Hall's crimes 'low level'

Barbara Hewson, a barrister at Hardwicke chambers in London, described the arrests of celebrities in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal as a 'grotesque spectacle'.

dailymail.co.uk (14 days ago)

Top human rights barrister sparks outrage with call for age of consent to be lowered to 13

Barrister Barbara Hewson was criticised by her own chambers after causing a furore by suggesting that the age of consent should be lowered to 13.

independent.co.uk (14 days ago)

Legal age of consent row: innocent teenagers at risk of 'iniquitous' predators

The age of consent for sex should be lowered to 13 years-old to end the ''persecution of old men'' in the wake of the Savile sex abuse scandal, a leading barrister has claimed. Here another lawyer argues such claims are dangerous and foolish.    

telegraph.co.uk (14 days ago)

FleetStreetFox on why Barbara Hewson is wrong and lowering the age of consent is never the answer

Barrister Barbara Hewson has sparked outrage by suggesting 13 as the age of consent in the wake of a "post-Savile witch-hunt"

mirror.co.uk (14 days ago)

Reduce age of consent, says lawyer

A LEADING British barrister has called for the age of consent for sex to be lowered to 13 in an attempt to end the "persecution of old men".

news.com.au (14 days ago)

Shock at lawyer’s call to cut consent age to 13 and end abuse ‘witch-hunt’

Colleagues of a leading woman barrister who called for the age of consent to be lowered to 13 in response to the Jimmy Savile sex-abuse scandal said today they were “shocked” by her remarks and strongly disagreed.

standard.co.uk (14 days ago)

Barrister facing an inquiry after remarks ‘belittling’ sex abuse

A leading rights barrister has been roundly condemned and is facing an inquiry at work after she called for an end...

thetimes.co.uk (15 days ago)

Legal chambers' 'shock' after human rights lawyer calls for age of consent to be lowered to 13...

Barbara Hewson, a barrister at Hardwicke chambers in London, described the arrests of celebrities in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal as a 'grotesque spectacle'.

dailymail.co.uk (15 days ago)

Stop 'persecution of old men' by lowering age of consent to 13 says top human rights barrister

independent.co.uk (15 days ago)

Allow legal sex at 13 to stop 'old men abuse persecutions', says barrister

The age of consent for sex should be lowered to 13 years-old to end the ''persecution of old men'' in the wake of the Savile sex abuse scandal, a leading barrister has claimed.    

telegraph.co.uk (15 days ago)

Age of consent should be lowered to 13 to stop persecution of old men, says top barrister

A TOP female barrister has sparked outrage after claiming the age of consent in Britain should be lowered to 13 in order to stop the "persecution of old men" in the wake of the Savile sex abuse scandal.    

dailyexpress.co.uk (15 days ago)