Liverpool-based legal firm Hill Dickinson is the naming rights partner for Everton’s new stadium. The new arena will be named the Hill Dickinson Stadium after the company, which has its headquarters in the city. Everton will move to the stadium for the start of the 2025-26 season, leaving their current home of Goodison Park. They...
Jonathan Turley’s Op/Ed about the double standards the legal profession has adopted got me to thinking about how law firms have become little more than ideological enforcers of the left whenever politics rears its ugly head. Lawyers and the legal profession in general occupy a special place in liberal democracies like ours, which is why...
Coleen Rooney has spoken of her “relief” after the latest part of her legal battle with Rebekah Vardy came to an end, saying she looks forward “to moving on” with her life. On Tuesday, a judge said Mrs Vardy must pay more than £1.4m of Mrs Rooney’s legal costs after the pair’s “Wagatha Christie” libel...
The auction house Sotheby’s has postponed its sale in Hong Kong of hundreds of sacred jewels linked to the Buddha’s remains, after a threat of legal action by the Indian government. The sale of the collection – described as one of the most astonishing archaeological finds of the modern era – had drawn criticism from...
Rebekah Vardy has agreed to pay almost £1.2 million of Coleen Rooney’s legal costs following their libel battle, a judge has been told. Mrs Rooney ran up a legal bill totalling more than £1.8 million while successfully defending herself against Mrs Vardy’s High Court claim in 2022, a specialist costs court previously heard. Now, in...
Reform UK could take the government to court to prevent migrants being housed in areas where it now controls the local council, party chairman Zia Yusuf told the BBC. Yusuf said his party had pledged to “resist” housing asylum seekers in Reform-controlled areas and it would use “every instrument of power available”, including judicial reviews,...
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers hit back Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump’s border czar suggested the Democratic leader could be arrested for distributing guidance to state employees on what to do if confronted by federal immigration agents. The guidance is straightforward and unremarkable, instructing state employees to “stay calm,” ask federal agents for their name...
A school leaders’ union says it is taking legal action against Ofsted over proposed changes to the way it inspects schools in England. The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has asked for a judge to review plans for new school report cards, which are due to be introduced in the autumn after Ofsted got...
The Duke of Sussex has lost a legal challenge over the levels of security he and his family are entitled to while in the UK. Prince Harry had been seeking to overturn a decision that had downgraded his security after he stopped being a working royal and moved to the US with the Duchess of...
A leading Polish doctor has told the BBC she fears for her patients’ safety after being targeted by anti-abortion activists. Gizela Jagielska says she has received thousands of death threats in relation to her work administering legal abortions in a hospital in the town of Olesnica in southwestern Poland. The facility specialises in complicated pregnancies....
Anna Holligan BBC News, Hague correspondent EFE Dozens of countries are expected to give evidence across five days of hearings The UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has begun hearings for an opinion on Israel’s legal duty to allow aid to Palestinians and to co-operate with the UN’s Palestinian aid agency, Unrwa...
Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko says she will “seek justice in court” after being subjected to “moral abuse” by the Women’s Tennis Association. The 35-year-old says she has suffered from panic attacks because of the tour’s decision to “protect” an unnamed senior official after their “conscious” attack on her. “I spoke about it openly and directly. I...
Graham Fraser Technology reporter Getty Images A Tesla whistleblower who has fought Elon Musk and his company through the courts for years has won the latest round of a long-running legal battle. Engineer Cristina Balan lost her job after she raised a safety concern in 2014 about a design flaw which could affect the cars’...
Alison Holt Social affairs editor Getty Images The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the legal definition of a woman should be based on biological sex. So as the dust settles on the ruling, what can we take away from it? Clear ruling Firstly, it provides much greater clarity than many expected. The judges ruled...
EPA Andrew Tate, pictured in the US in February, denies all of the women’s allegations. A civil case brought by four women against Andrew Tate is believed to be a legal first, a barrister for his accusers has said. The women accuse Tate of rape, assault and coercive control between 2013 and 2015. One claims...