India: No Alimony for Women with Good Income

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In a significant pronouncement on family matters, the Delhi High Court has ruled that a woman earning sufficient income is not entitled to maintenance from her estranged husband.

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Lawyer Files Antifeminist Suit Against Columbia

Roy Den Hollander is a Manhattan lawyer and a self-described antifeminist. Over the past year, he has sued Manhattan nightclubs for favoring women by offering ladies’ night discounts and has sued the federal government over a law that protects women from violence.

Decades Of Agony

The widow of a war hero who had been wrongfully denied a pension by Whitehall bureaucrats for years was celebrating a victory after the Ministry of Defence admitted "maladministration".

Lt Norbury won an immediate Military Cross for an action in Burma in 1944 in which he received horrific injuries to his feet, legs and abdomen.

Fifty-four years later the decorated King's African Rifles officer died penniless in a public hospital in South Africa after decades of agony and operations.

After selling the family home and its contents and despite his wife Gillian working part-time while nursing her husband, the Norburys ran out of money to support the medical bills.

Compensation Doubled For Military Casualties A new deal was offered to the Armed Forces yesterday to make up for the upheaval caused by the Iraq and Afghanistan operations, including a doubling of the compensation awarded for the most seriously injured.

Harriet Harman abandons home after Fathers4Justice protest on roof

A judge stunned a courtroom by branding three women robbers 'a bunch of over-the-hill slappers'.

Okay, maybe its not 'good news' as such, but it did make me laugh!

British troops who have suffered severe injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan are to receive much greater compensation.

No change in law regarding succession to the throne

The Attorney-General’s office has ruled out any legislation that would give equal rights of succession to the throne to daughters of a monarch. Nor will it repeal the law that bans the heir to the throne from marrying a Roman Catholic.

Families of British soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan because of faulty or missing equipment could sue the Government for breaching their human rights following a landmark High Court ruling.

The BBC could be forced to share its £3.2billion in licence fees with its rivals in the biggest broadcasting shake-up for decades, it emerged yesterday.

The BBC has a bias towards a socialist world-view, and is regularly misandric. This news could help put it under pressure to be more balanced.

Texas strip club owners will no longer have to pay a controversial $5-per-customer "pole tax" after the fee was declared unconstitutional by a judge.

The charge was imposed on clubs in January by officials who hoped to raise about $44 million (£22 million) to fund sexual assault prevention programmes and health care for the uninsured.