‘The Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024 (“the Act”) introduced major structural and electoral changes to Senedd Cymru (Welsh Parliament) which took effect for the election on 7 May 2026. These included an increase to the size of the Senedd from 60 to 96 members, and the introduction of a new, Closed Proportional List electoral system. Both provisions marked the culmination of a long-running debate on the size of the Senedd and its electoral system: these were informed by an understanding that the original Senedd was too small, its scrutiny capacity too thinly spread, and the desire to introduce a more proportional electoral system. For two decades, beginning with the Richard Commission (2004), a total of five inquiries produced recommendations on these two elements of Senedd reform.’

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UK Constitutional Law Association, 22nd October 2026

Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org

‘In Henley v Thurrock Council, the Employment Tribunal dismissed age discrimination claims brought by an employee made redundant shortly before his 55th birthday, who consequently missed out on an immediate unreduced LGPS pension.’

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Pensions Barrister, 26th October 2026

Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com

‘The High Court has ruled that information withheld from a child’s parents in Forced Marriage Protection Order (FMPO) proceedings should also be withheld for a short period from the parents in the context of care proceedings.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 27th October 2026

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘Councils and the police have been granted powers to take stronger enforcement action against repeat anti-social behaviour offenders through ‘Respect Orders’ that come into force across England and Wales today [27th October].’

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Local Government Lawyer, 27th October 2026

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘HM Land Registry has published a practice guide to help conveyancers and the wider property market understand and prepare for forthcoming requirements on contractual control agreements.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 26th October 2026

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘Divers will be banned from entering British shipwrecks in a matter of weeks as the Armed Forces Bill cleared at third reading in the House of Lords on Tuesday [27th October]’.

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The Independent, 27th October 2026

Source: www.independent.co.uk

‘A former Metropolitan police officer who served in the same unit as Sarah Everard’s killer, Wayne Couzens, has been found guilty of sexual offences against a woman he met through his work as an officer.’

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The Guardian, 27th October 2026

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘A couple who “fatally battered” their three-month-old son have had their “unduly lenient” sentences for murder increased.’

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BBC News, 27th October 2026

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

On 8 October 2026, the High Court handed down judgment that illustrates a Parole Board failure to act with “considerable caution” when assessing unproven allegations and unsupported conclusions in a release decision. In this case, an irrationality challenge was—unusually—successful. This case is important because it demonstrates that a Parole Board decision may be cumulatively irrational where steps in reasoning were ill-evidenced “and/or inadequate weight [was] accorded to a relevant consideration” [167]. The case is R (Siratillah Ford) v Parole Board [2026] EWHC 2502 (Admin).

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Administrative Court Blog, 27th October 2026

Source: administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com

‘On Tuesday, it was reported that major British supermarkets, including M&S, ASDA and Sainsbury’s have joined a campaign calling on the British government to introduce mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence for businesses in both their domestic and global supply chains.’

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UK Human Rights Blog, 27th October 2026

Source: ukhumanrightsblog.substack.com

‘The premises were a 1998 two-storey office building at Crossways Business Park, Dartford. The 2003 lease contained a covenant to keep the premises, expressly including the heating and air-conditioning apparatus, “in good and substantial repair and condition”. It expired on 8 July 2023.’

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Gatehouse Chambers, 26th October 2026

Source: gatehouselaw.co.uk

‘The principle of compensatory damages for tort victims is beguilingly simple. As Lord Blackburn explained in Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co. (1880) 5 App Cas 25 (H.L.), the court awards “that sum of money which will put the party who has been injured […] in the same position as he would have been in if he had not sustained the wrong for which he is now getting his compensation” (p. 39). This counterfactual enquiry is very difficult in practice where the claimant has been catastrophically and permanently injured, as “what will happen?” and “what would have happened?” are both unknowable at trial. But where the catastrophic injury has also reduced the claimant’s life expectancy, the enquiry is conceptually difficult as well. This is the “lost years” conundrum: if an injured claimant with reduced life expectancy would have earned money during years when they will now, ex hypothesi, be dead, should they recover compensation for the income they will not now earn in those lost years, even though they will not be around to spend it?’

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Cambridge Law Journal, 23rd October 2026

Source: www.cambridge.org

‘Our Bar Training Stats report has been published today [15 October], demonstrating the difficulty of passing the Bar Course and gaining pupillage. It also shows the variation in successful outcomes for students depending on where they study.’

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Bar Standards Board, 15th October 2026

Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

‘The issues surrounding lasting powers of attorney (LPAs) continue to make headlines. One particular aspect concerns how LPAs are executed. The Court of Protection case, In the matters of AR, HR & MH [2026] EWCOP 47 (T2), reported on 30 September, may illustrate what happens with the execution of a great number of LPAs prepared without the benefit of legal advice. It highlights the real dangers of allowing the unsupervised preparation and signing of LPAs.’

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Law Society's Gazette, 23rd October 2026

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘Two men who killed a mother and her four-year-old daughter as they raced their high-performance cars along a Leeds city centre road have been jailed.’

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BBC News, 26th October 2026

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Corporate law has dominantly become a law & finance discourse with agency theory and the microeconomic analysis it propels. And while there exists large-scale criticism of what is seen as the normative result of this discourse – shareholder primacy – there had been less engagement with rewriting the theoretical foundations. Now, there are a few contenders and all of them enable us to do something particularly meaningful to advance company law: Open it up to the multidiscipline under the broad banner of ‘organisation theory’ and with this we could start analysing what effect the legal form has on the organisation it supports.’

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City Law Forum, 25th October 2026

Source: blogs.city.ac.uk

‘Climate change and natural disasters are increasingly relevant to asylum and human rights cases. However, recognising their legal significance is not always straightforward. One of the main challenges is understanding how academic research and international jurisprudence can be translated into practical legal arguments that national courts and tribunals can consider.’

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EIN Blog, 26th October 2026

Source: www.ein.org.uk

‘David McCormick, family law barrister at Exchange Chambers, examines a significant judgment concerning the treatment of family trusts as matrimonial assets on divorce. This case addresses complicated issues surrounding family trusts, tax liabilities and matrimonialisation. H and W, both 63, married in 2001 and had two children (now adults). They separated in 2024. Having spent £6.5 million in legal fees, they tasked The Honourable Mr Justice Garrido with considering H’s assertion that his interests in family trusts should not be treated as matrimonial assets.’

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Exchange Chambers, 16th October 2026

Source: www.exchangechambers.co.uk