Law

Published: 28 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Freedom of speech is emerging as an important issue for voters ahead of the next UK general election, with new polling indicating that a large proportion of the public could consider political parties’ positions on free expression when deciding how to vote. The research, commissioned by civil liberties organisation Liberty and conducted by More in Common, found that...

Published: 28 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A Republican senator has questioned the use of US taxpayer money to broadcast television advertisements featuring President Donald Trump, adding a rare note of criticism from within the president’s own party as the administration expands a government-funded advertising campaign ahead of the November midterm elections. Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana said public officials should not use government money...

Published: 28 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A tense confrontation over a controversial Orange Order parade in Portadown, Northern Ireland, eased early Monday after hundreds of protesters dispersed from the Garvaghy Road following a day-long blockade. The standoff followed a late-night court ruling that allowed the loyalist parade to proceed along the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road for the first time in almost three decades. The...

Published: 25 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the collapsed blood-testing company Theranos, is reportedly scheduled to leave federal prison for a halfway house in Texas next year, marking another significant stage in the legal aftermath of one of the most closely followed corporate fraud cases in the United States. Holmes is expected to be transferred to the Austin transitional center...

Published: 25 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Journalists from CNN and MS NOW were prevented from covering Chinese President Xi Jinping’s arrival at the White House for a state dinner on Thursday, despite a federal judge ordering the Trump administration to restore access to the three news organisations it had recently banned. The dispute unfolded during one of the most closely watched diplomatic events of...

Published: 24 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A 37-year-old far-right activist has been arrested by police after allegedly filming himself slashing the side of a small migrant dinghy in the English Channel while a rescuer was reportedly on board, prompting an investigation into whether the incident endangered a person's life. Daniel Thomas, who is also known as Danny Tommo, was taken into custody on Wednesday...

Published: 24 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Australia is investigating a serious cybersecurity incident after an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to a government Medicare statistics portal and reached both public and non-public files. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the incident occurred in June and criticised OpenAI for taking several months to notify the Australian government. The breach has raised questions...

Published: 24 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A Paris court has sentenced Roberto Hamidovic, described by investigators as the leader of a long-running family network that exploited children to carry out pickpocketing operations, to eight years in prison for human trafficking and related offences. The case has exposed a complex criminal structure in which children were allegedly sent into some of Paris’s busiest tourist locations...

Published: 24 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A federal judge in the United States has ordered the Trump administration to immediately restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, temporarily blocking the administration from enforcing a ban that had prevented the three outlets from covering presidential activities inside the White House. US District Judge Timothy Kelly said the media organisations had...

Published: 23 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A judge should not have heard a legal appeal from his bed while recovering from surgery, the Court of Appeal has ruled, although it concluded that the unusual arrangement did not cause injustice in the case before it. Richard Clayton KC, who was sitting as a deputy High Court judge, conducted a hearing remotely from his bed after...