Analysis by King's College London focusing on three areas of civil law says knock-on costs could be £139m a year. Read more...

In France, suspects in police detention are assisted mostly by lawyers who are not spe-cialized in criminal law and by stagiaires. Read more...

In the case Maksimenko v. Ukraine, the applicant was convicted of premeditated murder by a judgment upheld by the Supreme Court in February 2007. He complained that he was not given free legal assistance during the proceedings before the Supreme Court. Read more...

Anyone suspected or accused of having committed a crime in the EU must be promptly informed of his or her procedural rights in easy-to-understand language, says a new EU law adopted by Parliament. Read more...