‘Documents created to enable a litigation funder to decide whether to fund a group action are not covered by litigation privilege, the High Court has ruled.’

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Legal Futures, 30th June 2026

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘The literature on section 2 of the Human Rights Act 1998 has largely been preoccupied with a single direction of travel: how far domestic courts may go beyond the Strasbourg case law, or against it. Those are the questions behind Ullah, behind the refusal to follow Strasbourg in Horncastle, and behind the long debate over whether there is a ‘ceiling’ on domestic rights (see L. Graham, ‘The Modern Mirror Principle’ [2021] PL 523, and the work of Roger Masterman on the domestic–Strasbourg relationship). A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a devolution issue under paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 [2026] UKSC 16 (‘the AGNI Reference’) runs in the other direction. Sitting as a panel of seven, the Supreme Court used the 1966 Practice Statement to overrule its own decision in Surrey County Council v P; Cheshire West and Chester Council v P [2014] UKSC 19 (‘Cheshire West’), holding that the ‘acid test’ for deprivation of liberty under article 5 ECHR had never been adopted by the European Court of Human Rights and was wrong in principle. Craig Wells has read the decision through a rule-of-law lens, stressing the consequences for those who lack capacity and the risk of arbitrary power (UKCLA, 15 June 2026); I approach it from another angle, though, as I suggest at the close, the two meet. My claim is narrow. The constitutionally distinctive feature of the AGNI Reference is not simply that the Court narrowed a Convention right, or even that it overruled itself to do so. It is the reason the Court gave for making that correction itself rather than leaving the matter to Strasbourg: a public authority cannot ask the European Court of Human Rights to correct an over-protective domestic reading of the Convention. What follows traces that move: its basis in precedent, the statutory link to article 5, the Article 34 asymmetry that made domestic correction necessary, and its 2012 pedigree, before turning to why it matters.’

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UK Constitutional Law Associaton, 30th June 2026

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‘A teenager who admitted possessing explosive substances and threatening to bomb his college and kill his fellow students has been sentenced to three years and 11 months in custody.’

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BBC News, 29th June 2026

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‘Asylum seekers will be ordered to pay about £10,000 to cover their state-funded living costs or be denied settled status in the UK under a new law to be considered by MPs on Tuesday.’

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The Guardian, 29th June 2026

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‘Former Conservative MP Craig Williams has pleaded guilty to cheating at gambling by placing bets on the date of the 2024 general election.’

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BBC News, 29th June 2026

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‘A former partner in a London law firm transferred almost £700,000 of his own money to a client company to avoid a negligence claim.’

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Legal Futures, 30th June 2026

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‘A man has been jailed for eight years after he set up a fake Tinder profile for his ex-partner and enticed multiple men to her house with the intention of raping her.’

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The Guardian, 29th June 2026

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‘A former police sergeant has been found guilty of misconduct in public office after fostering a “toxic” WhatsApp culture that embroiled a dozen colleagues.’

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The Independent, 26th June 2026

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‘A man has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail after being convicted of assaulting two female police officers and a member of the public at a Starbucks in Manchester airport.’

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The Guardian, 26th June 2026

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‘Prosecutors in England and Wales are expecting incidents of domestic abuse to increase during the men’s World Cup, and have urged victims to come forward, saying those responsible “will be held accountable”.’

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The Guardian, 27th June 2026

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‘The co-accused of a rapist who allegedly conspired with other men to drug and sexually abuse his wife can be named for the first time after reporting restrictions were lifted.’

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BBC News, 26th June 2026

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‘A construction company has been fined £50,000 over the death of a worker who fell from scaffolding at a building site in south-west London.’

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BBC News, 28th June 2026

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‘British foreign correspondents could be at risk of prosecution if they use sources within state-backed groups in countries such as Iran under national security legislation being rushed through parliament this week.’

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The Guardian, 29th June 2026

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‘On 24 June 2026, Donna Ockenden published her report into maternity and neonatal services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH). It is the largest maternity inquiry in NHS history. The review was commissioned in June 2022 by NHS England, replacing an earlier regional review that had lost the confidence of affected families. By the time the review closed in May 2025, nearly 2,500 families had come forward, covering experiences predominantly spanning between 2012 and 2025.’

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1 QMLR. 26th June 2026

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‘One of the more immediate challenges facing regulators is not the use of AI by regulated professionals, but the increasing use of AI-generated advocacy by all participants in the regulatory process.’

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Kingsley Napley Regulatory Blog, 26th June 2026

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‘A 68-year-old has been slapped with a restraining order for harassing her neighbours by deliberately leaving her lanmower running while they hosted a dinner party.’

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The Independent, 29th June 2026

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‘June has been an eventful month for mental capacity practitioners, with the Supreme Court not just distinguishing but ripping up the so-called acid test for deprivation of liberty laid down in the then landmark Cheshire West judgment of 2015 (The Attorney General for Northern Ireland’s reference (Deprivation Of Liberty) [2026] UKSC 16 (‘AGNI’)).’

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Law Society's Gazette, 26th June 2026

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk