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Members of the public are taking matters into their own hands as ex police chief provokes human rights campaigners. Liberty’s view is that the large-scale expansion of cameras watching the public in recent years poses a threat to our way of life...

Now imagine.... thousands - if not tens of thousands - of mobile traffic cameras on our roads.

Not fitted to high visibility police vehicles, but installed in private cars, rusty old vans, lorries making deliveries, and even public buses, coaches and taxis.

Almost half of family lawyers believe that those embroiled in 'big money' divorce cases are likely to conceal assets during proceedings following a key court ruling that prevents the use of secretly obtained documents in divorce cases.

Grant Thornton, the professional services firm, questioned 101 lawyers for its annual matrimonial study and found that 48 per cent believe that people were either definitely or probably likely to conceal assets as a result of a landmark Court of Appeal ruling last year. The ruling centred on the case of Lisa Tchenguiz, who has filed for divorce from her husband Vivian Imerman, a former owner of Del Monte foods.

It may be time to end the immunity from liability of expert witnesses, writes Simon Mills

Expert Witnesses are an important and somewhat exceptional part of the legal process. They are important because many cases depend on expert witness evidence in order to get to the truth of matters.

In criminal cases, for example, expert forensic evidence can be vital, while in personal injuries cases, expert actuarial evidence can help guide the court to the final value of any award of damages.

A team of international experts has concluded that the former president of Chile, Salvador Allende, killed himself during the 1973 military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.

A detailed report was released two months after Mr Allende's body was exhumed as part of an inquiry into his death.