ROLE models in any profession are important. When Caroline Flanagan became the Law Society's first female president in 2005 it was much commented on; so too when Lorna Jac

Telegraph View: the law of libel has a 'chilling effect' on journalism.

In what is another move the Government to extend the creep of things that 'make it easier to have an ID card', they have introduced new traffic regulations which at first glance appear to be aimed at foreign drivers. The law will also apply to British residents who cannot prove at the roadside that they have a valid address in Britain. The fines will be described officially as “dep...

In Uganda there is a law against annoying the president, and last night I met an incredible person who has been jailed 12 times for breaking that law. Andrew Mwenda, founder of The Independent newspaper, was giving the keynote address at The Bastiat Prize and asking why the West was so timid in defending free markets and the open society which people like him put their lives on the line to support...

However, Lord McNally suggested in an interview with The Daily Telegraph that the new legislation would go further, in effect creating a privacy law. He conceded that there were concerns that a privacy law had been created through successive rulings by judges. Some, such as Mr Justice

A British re-make of the long-running US series Law & Order airs on ITV1 tonight. In The Telegraph, Matt Warman talks to the shows creator, Dick Wolf. ...the formula that has made Law & Order such a success in the US has not been tampered with. The show combines a police procedural with the...

We take addresses for granted. How hard an issue can they be? Put an address on an envelope and it gets there, a gratifying proportion of the time. Stick a postcode in a satnav and it shows you a route which usually gets you to your destination. Add an address to a name and you

Further to Guthrum, below, if the revelations in the Telegraph are true, then Shahid Malik MP, Justice Minister, appears to not understand the meaning of Justice, nor does he appear to know right from wrong. Let us cut to the chase. MPs are elected in no small part to make, amend and repeal our laws. They need to know what is right without reference to Law so that new Law can be formed or bad law ...

Dave Hill carries the news that Telegraph readers very nearly didn't get the weekly address from our Dear Leader in City Hall. But perhaps the more important question is whether Boris Johnson should be writing this stuff at all. I mean there's nothing wrong with him keeping his skills honed and doing the odd bit of paid writing when he has the time. But when he's flitting between dealing with the...

Planned changes to electoral law which pave the way for Coalition candidates to stand at the next election have been quietly slipped out by ministers, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.