Law

Published: 18 January 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A South Korean court has sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison, marking the first judicial verdict arising from the dramatic and unprecedented events surrounding his failed declaration of martial law in December 2024. The ruling, delivered by the Seoul central district court, found Yoon guilty of mobilising presidential security forces to obstruct his...

Published: 18 January 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online On Monday morning, courtroom 76 of the High Court in London will become the stage for one of the most consequential media trials in modern British history. Prince Harry’s long-running legal battle against the Daily Mail, one of the most powerful and influential newspapers in the UK, is finally set to be heard. The outcome could reverberate far...

Published: 17 January 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online When Tiina Parikka opened an email on a quiet Saturday morning in October 2020, she had no idea that her life—and the lives of tens of thousands of others—had already been irrevocably altered. Fresh from a sauna in her Vantaa apartment, just outside Helsinki, the 62-year-old headteacher glanced at her phone absent-mindedly. What she read made her heart...

Published: 17 January 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online United Nations secretary general António Guterres has issued one of the starkest warnings of his tenure, cautioning that “powerful forces” are actively working to undermine global cooperation at a moment when humanity faces interconnected crises of unprecedented scale. Speaking in London to mark the 80th anniversary of the United Nations’ first major meeting, Guterres delivered an impassioned defence...

Published: 17 January 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Hundreds of taxpayers across the UK are facing prolonged financial strain as HM Revenue and Customs takes more than a year in some cases to repay overpaid tax and national insurance contributions, raising serious questions about fairness, accountability and administrative efficiency within the tax authority. An investigation has found that refunds which once took a matter of weeks...

Published: 17 January 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Pressure is mounting on Betfair to hand over tens of thousands of pounds to the victim of a long-running fraud, after court proceedings exposed how a gambling addict was repeatedly allowed to wager vast sums of stolen money on the platform despite multiple warning signs. The case has reignited debate in the UK over the responsibility of gambling...

Published: 16 January 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A woman who hunted down and killed a young e-bike rider by deliberately using her car as a weapon has been jailed for life, with a minimum term of 35 years, in a case the court described as a chilling example of violence driven by a bitter feud and fatal misidentification. The victim, 28-year-old Joey Johnstone, was not...

Published: 16 January 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online TikTok is preparing to roll out a new generation of age-verification technology across the European Union in the coming weeks, marking a significant shift in how one of the world’s most influential social media platforms seeks to identify and protect underage users. The move comes at a moment of intensifying political, regulatory and public scrutiny, as governments across...

Published: 15 January 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Labor’s hate laws face mounting challenges as the Coalition and Greens rule out support, putting the proposed legislation at risk of failing in federal parliament. Designed to tackle rising antisemitism and Islamic extremism, these hate laws emerged following the Bondi terror attack, which left 15 people dead, and aim to provide urgent protections for vulnerable communities. Labor maintains...

Published: 15 January 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Keir Starmer is confronting growing unease within his parliamentary party as the Hillsborough law becomes a source of serious internal tension. The proposed legislation, promised in Labour’s election manifesto, was intended to rebuild trust between the state and bereaved families after public disasters. Instead, a breakdown in talks with victims’ relatives has reopened painful divisions, raising the prospect...