1/2/10 (UK): 'Tesco Lawyers' Come to Scotland. Is England & Wales Next? Hundreds of small independent solicitors across Scotland could be forced out of business after four of the biggest law firms in the country voted through reforms that will enable supermarkets and banks to provide cut-price legal advice on services such as house purchases and small claims.

27/1/10 (UK): Naming Youth Offender Breaches Human Rights Balal Khan, now 14, of Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent, was sentenced to three years in a young offenders' institution after admitting raping a 20-year-old woman when he was 13. He also admitted a further charge of robbery. During the case at Stoke Crown court Judge Paul Glenn allowed the naming of Khan, to act as a deterrent to others.

26/1/09 (UK): Kelly Evidence To Be Sealed For 70 Years. Why? The death of weapons expert Dr. David Kelly in July 2003 was sufficient to raise questions, coming only days after it was revealed he had challenged one of the major claims for invading Iraq four months earlier. Now, the fact that details about the investigation of Kelly's suicide will be kept secret for 70 years has produced speculation over the true cause of his death.

21/1/10 (UK): Divorce Courts To Be A Thing Of The Past? Online article from the Times reporting on the proposed radical overhaul of family justice.

9/1/10 (UK): Youth Justice Board Forced to Make Restraint Manual Public The YJB has been ordered to release a manual detailing controversial restraint methods used on children following a complaint made to the Information Commissioner.

7/1/10 (Online) No Evidence to Link Strokes To Chiropractic? According to the Foundation for Vertebral Subluxation there is no human experimental evidence that chiropractic adjustments or neck manipulations are causally related to strokes.

6/1/10 (USA): Insanity: An Excerpt Online overview of how the law of insanity has developed in the U.S from its original British roots.

6/1/10 (UK): Public Supports Action on Antisocial Behaviour A government survey has found that eight out of 10 people back government efforts to create more positive activities for young people.

4/1/10 (USA): Jack The Ripper Too Early For Fingerprint Evidence Jack the Ripper might have been prosecuted had fingerprint evidence been available at the time. But what was the first known criminal case in history to use fingerprints in court?