A vicar wants a judge to examine the amount of arrears people on council tax benefits are forced to pay, following government cuts. Revd Paul Nicolson, the founder of Tax Payers Against Poverty, has ...
A council social worker who told a couple that it might be harder to place their baby son for adoption if he was christened has been criticised by a family cour Details of the case have emerged in a ...
A judge is due to reconsider an order barring protesters who object to the teaching of LGBT lessons at a Birmingham primary school in the near future. Bosses at education authority Birmingham City Co...
A judge has given doctors the go-ahead to perform an abortion on a pregnant mentally-ill woman. Mrs Justice Lieven has concluded that a pregnancy termination is in the woman's best interests after an...
A jury which must decide whether a church warden and magician murdered a university lecturer and conspired to kill a retired headmistress in order to benefit fr Benjamin Field, 28, and Martyn Smith, ...
A Christian girl placed with a Muslim foster family in east London has returned to relatives after a family court judge intervened. Judge Khatun Sapnara, herself a practising Muslim, ruled on Tuesday...
Two High Court judges have upheld a decision not prosecute two doctors accused of offering an abortion on the basis of the baby's gender. Lord Justice Burnett and Mr Justice Irwin rejected the appeal...
A Muslim man has told a judge in court that his ex-wife's "un-Islamic" lifestyle is "debauched." The pair are involved in a family dispute over the care of their daughter, 9, following the breakdown ...
An Employment Tribunal has dismissed the discrimination claim by a Christian teacher who was sacked for answering students' questions about her beliefs. Svetlana Powell was dismissed by the T2 Appren...
A High Court judge is set to decide where terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard will end his life after the little boy's parents and hospital bosses became embroiled Connie Yates and Chris Gard want their...
A Christian who says he was unfairly removed from his senior NHS post has suceeded in a bid to have a judge consider his case. Richard Page says he was discriminated against because of his belief it ...
A judge is to decide whether or not an elderly ex-bishop is able to face trial for alleged historic sexual abuse. Bishop Peter Ball faces allegations of sexually assaulting boys and young men in the ...
Judge rejects appeal by Deptford Green School science teacher Robert Haye against his indefinite ban over homophobic comments. A classroom ban on a Christian school teacher who condemned the "homose...
The case of a Christian magistrate in Derbyshire who was disciplined for refusing to hear a case involving same-sex parenting has prompted a warning from legal Susan Preston was given a formal warni...
A judge in the case of a trainee vicar convicted of raping two teenage girls has furiously hit out at the Church of England. The Diocese of London was responsible for "a shameful misrepresentation of...
A family court judge has said there is "nothing concerning" about the beliefs of a man who believes prayer can ward off evil. Carol Atkinson's been ruling on a case regarding the care of a baby. The ...
An Employment Appeal Tribunal has dismissed a Christian former magistrate's appeal against the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice's decision to remove him f Richard Page lost his role on the benc...
Three judges at Scotland's Inner House of the Court of Session have begun considering an appeal against the Scottish government's Named Person scheme at the sta Under the law, every child in Scotland...
The Government is facing calls to create protest-free "safe zones" outside all abortion clinics after the Court of Appeal rejected a challenge against the first Three leading judges dismissed an appe...
Leading judges have rejected a challenge brought by disability rights campaigners against the prosecution policy in assisted dying cases. Disability campaigners Merv and Nikki Kenward appealed a Hi...
