All news on the topic: Supreme Court

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Russia's richest man wins court bid to avoid England's most expensive divorce
Vladimir Potanin, who is estimated to be Russia's richest man, appealed against his former wife Natalia Potanina's claim for £5billion. He was successful at overturning the claim for cash
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Texas governor rants about 'cartel army' of migrants sparking civil war fears
In a shocking rant, a Texas governor described migrants as a “well-armed cartel army” who are “invading” the United States. It comes as Texas and the Biden administration lock horns in a legal battle over immigration
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Prison officers to train contractors in forcing asylum seekers onto planes
Government contractor Mitie, which runs immigration detention centres, is hiring “use of force instructors” to force asylum-seekers on to planes bound for Rwanda
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Horrified wife screamed as killer convulsed during execution with new gas method
Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was pronounced dead at 8.25pm at an Alabama prison after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation
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Death row's Kenneth Smith 'held breath' before 'writhing for two minutes'
Kenneth Smith, 58, became the first-ever inmate in the USA to be put to death by toxic gas following an execution at Alabama's Holman Correctional Facility
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MoD lied for 40 years that irradiated British troops had a "zero dose"
As Tory MPs demand an urgent review, the MoD refuses to bin the dodgy data and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak still won't talk to survivors
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Controversial Rwanda asylum policy explained as Sunak faces crisis if he loses
Rishi Sunak has staked his premiership on the Rwanda asylum policy, which has opened up another Tory civil war after the Supreme Court ruled it was unlawful
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Rishi Sunak trying to 'fundamentally change reality' with Rwanda 'fiction'
Tyrone Steele, interim legal director at law charity Justice, said Rishi Sunak's Safety of Rwanda Bill "has tried to fundamentally change reality" - amid warnings it won't tackle a huge asylum backlog
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Oscar Pistorius 'now overweight grey-haired chain smoker' after years in prison
Oscar Pistorius has served nine years for the murder of his partner Reeva Steenkamp at their home in Pretoria, South Africa on Valentine's Day in 2013
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Woman, 62, wins right to extract dead husband's sperm so she can have a baby
An emergency hearing in West Australia's Supreme Court saw the widow, 62, plead her case the day after her husband of more than 40 years died suddenly aged 61
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Travis Barker slammed for controversial fashion choice with Kourtney Kardashian
Travis Barker has been slammed for his controversial fashion choice in photos with Kourtney Kardashian. The new parents cosied up for a festive snap but fans all said the same thing.
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Government's legal bill to defend stalling Rwanda migrant scheme tops £2million
Not a single migrant has been sent to east African nation under a controversial Tory scheme, but the Government's legal bill for defending it against court challenges has ballooned
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Donald Trump's options now he can't run for President after Supreme Court ruling
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump was to be struck off the ballot citing a post-Civil War era clause in the Constitution that was meant to stop Confederates holding office
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Five men go on trial after British tourist 'gang-raped in Cyprus hotel room'
Five Israeli men, aged 19 and 20, who are accused of raping a woman in a room of a hotel after a pool party in the party town of Ayia Napa in eastern Cyprus, have begun their trial
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'Rotten to the core Rwanda Bill is performative cruelty of dying Government'
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas says Rishi Sunak's desperate bid to push through the Rwanda plan in spite of a Supreme Court ruling that it is illegal represents a 'grim slide into authoritarianism'
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Top Tory hits back after Rwandan President compared to Adolf Hitler by neighbour
Newly-appointed Illegal Migration Minister Michael Tomlinson defended Rwandan President Paul Kagame after Democratic Republic of Congo leader Felix Tshisekedi said he will "end up like Adolf Hitler"
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Right wing Tory MPs say Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill 'doesn't go far enough'
Rishi Sunak is desperately trying to hold his warring Tory Party together ahead of a crunch vote on emergency legislation trying to resurrect the Rwanda asylum project
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Suella Braverman branded 'poison-spreading headline-grabber' in brutal interview
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman endured a bruising encounter on BBC Radio 4's Today programme after she urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to change course on Rwanda
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Suella Braverman warns Tories 'face electoral oblivion' in ultimatum to Sunak
In words that many will seen as a challenge to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s leadership, ex-Home Secretary Suella Braverman told MPs she would not 'sit by and allow us to fail'
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Tory James Cleverly's own flight to Rwanda delayed after deportations hold up
Home Secretary James Cleverly's Government flight to Rwanda was delayed last night, which came after months of Tory moans about deportation flights to Rwanda being delayed by judges
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Tory farce as James Cleverly becomes third Home Secretary to sign Rwanda deal
More than £140million has already been handed to the African nation by UK Home Secretaries in the past two years - despite not a single asylum seeker being sent there
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Top Tory goes off script as he suggests migrant plan doesn’t go far enough
Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said 'more things may need to be done' less than 24 hours after the Home Secretary James Cleverly announced a migration crackdown
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Russian cops raid Moscow gay bars as supreme court declares LGBTQ+ 'extremists'
Russian security forces have raided gay bars and clubs across Moscow after Vladimir Putin's supreme court bizarrely ruled the "global LGBTQ+ movement" an extremist organisation
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First female Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor dies aged 93
First female Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has passed away at aged 93, after a long career of breaking barriers and defending abortion rights
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Rishi Sunak won't rule out spending millions more on Rwanda amid secrecy row
Rishi Sunak declined to say what the maximum cost he'd be prepared to spend on the Rwanda deportation scheme amid questions over how much taxpayers have coughed up so far