Employment lawyers are in red-hot demand as businesses seek advice on novel legal issues thrown up by the coronavirus pandemic.

Home Office rules allowing the removal of foreign rough sleepers from the UK starting next month are unlawful, legal campaigners have claimed.

Lawyers have stressed that the illegality principle in civil claims remains intact despite the Supreme Court finding in favour of a mortgage fraudster in a dispute with a law firm.

Protections for protesters are set to be removed from the coronavirus rules under the second national lockdown, it has emerged, provoking anger from human rights groups and campaigners.

Hollywood star Johnny Depp’s libel claim against the Sun newspaper was dismissed by the High Court today which found allegations that he assaulted his former wife to be ‘substantially true’.