21/02/07 (UK): Expert’s ‘Secret Files’ Result in Review  The Attorney General has launched a review of criminal cases over the last ten years in which the paediatrician David Southall acted as a prosecution witness, amid concerns about thousands of ‘secret files’ kept on former patients.

15/02/07 (US): HIV: Court Agrees Expert’s ‘Late Seroconversion’ Claim   An appeal court has rejected a hospital's contention that a health worker did not contract HIV during the course of her work simply because she tested negative 17 months after the incident.

09/02/07 (UK): Noise: Courts Don’t Have To Accept Councils’ Evidence  Courts were entitled not to follow the views of professional council officers when forming their view of whether noise amounted to a statutory nuisance.

01/02/07 (UK): Rape Conviction Rates – Missing The Point? In 1980, one in three complaints of rape ended in a conviction. Today, it's one in 20 and many people are convinced that rapists are escaping justice. But is the Government missing the point?

28/01/07 (UK): Expert Says Gay Couple Adoption ‘Not in Best Interest of Children’ A US expert on child development has told an employment tribunal in Sheffield that placing a child in the care of a gay couple is not in their best interests.

26/01/07 (UK): Software Company Fails To Prove Case  A dispute between two software houses remains unresolved after the Court of Appeal refused to rule that one company definitely did not copy the other's software. However, the ruling does not mean that copying did take place.

25/01/07 (US): 15 Years Inside - Now DNA Frees Prisoner  Fifteen years to the day after he was convicted of a brutal murder, Roy Brown, 46, was ordered released from prison because DNA tests proved he did not commit the crime.