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Haroon Siddique

Haroon Siddique is the Guardian's legal affairs correspondent. Twitter @Haroon_Siddique

June 2024

  • A headshot of Shawn Seesahai

    Wolverhampton guilty verdicts raise issue of naming child killers

    Some believe naming convicted children acts as deterrent, while others say it could glorify horrific acts
  • Sally Hawkins as Philippa Langley with Steve Coogan as John Langley in The Lost King: they are sitting on a wooden bench in front of a historical site. Hawkins wears a mustard-yellow anorak and Coogan a grey suit and tie, dressed as their characters.

    Portrayal of character in Steve Coogan’s film The Lost King is defamatory, judge rules

    Coogan, production company Baby Cow and Pathe, the distributors of the 2022 film, will now face a full trial
  • Guy Mukendi headshot

    London man jailed for ‘stealthing’ after removing condom without consent

    Guy Mukendi, 39, from Brixton sentenced to four years and three months for rape

28 May 2024

  • People hold up placards saying 'zero tolerance for antisemitism'

    Charity Commission drops inquiry into Campaign Against Antisemitism

    Regulator drops investigation four years after claims of political partisanship were raised

26 May 2024

  • a woman's hands using a laptop keyboard

    More than 300m children victims of online sexual abuse every year

  • Rachel Reeves smiles in front of a group of people holding Labour party signs

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    ‘No return to austerity under a Labour government,’ says shadow chancellor – as it happened

  • Richard Sherman.

    Richard Sherman, songwriter for Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book, dies aged 95

  • People holding up a sign with pictures of their loved ones who had died after being infected with contaminated blood, reading murdered, murdered, murdered

    Hundreds of victims in infected blood scandal to sue UK health secretary

24 May 2024

  • Members of the international court of justice stand in a line

    UN’s top court orders Israel to immediately halt Rafah offensive

  • Justice statue on the Old Bailey

    Court backlog target in England and Wales no longer achievable, says NAO

21 May 2024

  • People hold banners and pictures of the victims of the infected blood scandal. One banner says 'murdered, murdered, murdered' between pictures of victims

    Infected blood victims could get compensation payments of over £2.5m

  • People impacted by the infected blood scandal held placards as they gathered in Westminster for a vigil to remember those that lost their lives.

    Infected blood inquiry: passage of time no bar to prosecutions, lawyers say

20 May 2024

  • A woman affected by the infected blood scandal following the release of findings of the six-year inquiry.

    UK infected blood scandal made worse by ‘chilling’ cover-up, inquiry finds

    Thousands of deaths could have been avoided, final report on infection of thousands with HIV or hepatitis C concludes
  • Karim Khan sitting on a chair

    ICC’s Karim Khan: a prosecutor in a hurry to effect international law

    Swift pursuit of arrest warrants against war leaders in Ukraine and now Gaza is a bold show of legal rule without fear or favour
  • Sir Brian Langstaff.

    UK infected blood scandal report confirms this tragedy was preventable

    To many who were infected, or whose loved ones were, the report confirms what they already knew

16 May 2024

  • Christopher Marsh, 49, at his home in Ramsgate. He is standing in front of a red-brick house with a hanging basket of flowers behind him and a tall brick gatepost to one side. He has a short, tidy greying beard and a bald head, and is dressed smartly in a white shirt, pale green tie and navy blue waistcoat. He is looking straight at the camera without smiling and his eyes are narrowed as if he is facing the sun.

    ‘I want justice’: man whose brothers died in infected blood scandal awaits report

    Christopher Marsh says he is determined to see the contaminated blood inquiry ‘to the end’
  • Protesters hold placards reading message related to the NHS infected blood scandal as Rishi Sunak is questioned by inflected blood inquiry in London on 26 July 2023

    Blood scandal report must deliver more than just justice, says Andy Burnham

    Exclusive: Labour mayor argues only ‘fundamental rewiring’ of political system can prevent more ‘colossal’ state failures
  • Demonstrators hold a large placard reading 'Dying for justice' outside a building in London

    What is the NHS contaminated blood scandal and how did it happen?

    From 1970 to 1990s, the NHS exposed people to tainted blood through transfusions and gave infected US blood products to haemophiliacs

8 May 2024

  • Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney speaking to journalists outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London

    Northern Ireland police spied on investigative journalists, tribunal told

    Secretive hearing learns of ‘defensive operation’ carried out by PSNI in attempt to identify sources

7 May 2024

  • Andrew Malkinson, wearing a t-shirt that reads 'Innocent, and not the only one', holds up his fist

    Majority verdicts facilitated 56 miscarriages of justice in England and Wales, charity says

    Report calls for reintroduction of jury unanimity to safeguard against wrongful criminal convictions
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