Are students ‘intelligent enough to represent themselves’ in a court of law? SchNEWS reports on the refusal of legal aid to a group of students accused of ‘aggravated trespass’.

CAMPACC provides a briefing on yet another Counter-Terrorism bill, currently being considered by Parliament.

Daniel Soar reports on a little reported trial of eight men charged with conspiracy to murder, on thought crimes, and on media frenzy.

A pair of British men were sentenced to jail on Thursday for leaking a classified memo that revealed President Bush told British Prime Minister Tony Blair in April 2004 that he wanted to bomb the Doha headquarters of the Arabic television network Al Jazeera. They were convicted after a highly secretive trial. Davide Simonetti of the website Blairwatch joins Democracy Now! in London.