England and Wales pioneered the criminalisation of coercive control, but it doesn’t apply outside of intimate or family relationships. Why stop there, asks deputy head of Guardian Opinion Barbara Spee ...

Ex-driver for Gerry Adams and an informer accused of trying to buy a baby among those facing new legal action ...

PC Sam James Wilson was found not guilty of engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour against his ex-partner at a Kingston Crown Court trial on Monday A Sussex police officer has been found not ...

John Doyle is set to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court [Getty Images] A former Metropolitan Police inspector charged with five counts of rape is accused of wrapping a woman's face in clingfilm ...

Callum Fairleigh, 34, was sentenced in February to two years’ imprisonment with a non-parole period of 15 months, becoming ...

The recent decision in LP v MP [2025] EWFC 473 illustrates how such conduct is addressed within financial remedy proceedings and highlights the procedural tension that can arise when parallel family ...

A man who allegedly punched a woman in the head repeatedly after she refused to hand over her phone has been let out on bail ...