‘A woman who woke up to a man sexually assaulting her in her hotel bed has said she was “failed” by Travelodge after staff gave him a key card and her room number.’
BBC News, 6th March 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A gardening couple has won a legal battle over an eight-foot strip of lawn outside their £1.3m Surrey home, a dispute sparked when new neighbours removed their plants and installed a garden gnome.’
The Independent, 6th March 2026
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Employment Appeal Tribunal has made a finding of apparent bias over the conduct of a judge in managing a discrimination claim brought by a barrister against his former chambers.’
Legal Futures, 6th March 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The chair of the UK public inquiry into Covid 19 has defended the cost and length of the process on the last day of hearings.’
BBC News, 5th March 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The High Court (Chamberlain J) has held that the AF3 heightened disclosure standard does not apply in a high-profile national security and human rights solicitor’s challenge against North Wales Police’s decisions to detain and question him, and seize and inspect the contents of his mobile phone. In coming to its conclusion, the Court rejected the idea of a “spectrum of disclosure standard” for AF3 cases, holding that the correct approach, in cases identified as engaging the AF3 standard, is to simply identify the “core irreducible minimum” information which fairness requires. This represents a significant repudiation of the approach set out in earlier High Court cases.’
Administrative Court Blog, 5th March 2026
‘In recent years, there has been much controversy over the increased use of physician (and anaesthetic) associates (referred to together as associates in this piece) in primary and secondary care in the NHS. Associates practice clinically, alongside and under the supervision of doctors, but are not medically qualified. One angle of concern is the possibility for confusion between associates and doctors. ‘Physician associate’, the argument goes, is a misleading title, which is apt to mislead an unexpecting patient into thinking – wrongly – that they have been seen by a doctor.’
1 QMLR, 5th March 2026
Source: 1corqmlr.com
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has today finally issued the formal public censure of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for its failure to protect consumers affected by the collapse of the SSB Group.’
Legal Futures, 5th March 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A 20-year-old woman who worked at a children’s nursery has been given a four-year prison sentence after admitting a series of online child sex offences.’
BBC News, 5th March 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘South East Water has been fined £22.5m by Ofwat for repeated supply failures in Kent and Sussex between 2020 and 2023 that affected more than 280,000 people.’
The Guardian, 5th March 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A “callous sexual predator” has been found guilty of rape and deliberately infecting seven men with HIV, one of whom was aged 15 at the time.’
BBC News, 5th March 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Circumcision has been classed as a potentially harmful practice in new official guidance for criminal prosecutors in England and Wales, but controversial plans to class it as possible child abuse have been dropped.’
The Guardian, 5th March 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The High Court has said it will allow a judicial review of whether the government failed to act on the recommendations of a seven-year inquiry into child sexual abuse.’
BBC News, 5th March 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘“Headway is finally being made” in reducing delays in the county courts, justice minister Sarah Sackman declared yesterday on the back of positive statistics on wait times.’
Legal Futures, 6th March 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Roberts v Severn Trent Water Limited & Severn Trent PLC & Ors [2026] EWCA Civ 222 (05 March 2026)
Roadget Business PTE Ltd & Anor v Whaleco UK Ltd [2026] EWCA Civ 221 (05 March 2026)
Kay v Martineau Johnson (a firm) [2026] EWCA Civ 224 (05 March 2026)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Domin v Polish Judicial Authority, Poland [2026] EWHC 488 (Admin) (05 March 2026)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Cooper & Ors v Ludgate House Ltd [2026] EWHC 484 (Ch) (05 March 2026)
High Court (Family Division)
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust v RNM & Ors [2026] EWHC 452 (Fam) (27 February 2026)
High Court (King’s Bench Division)
Feldman & Anor v Gambling Commission [2026] EWHC 474 (KB) (04 March 2026)
Baroness Lawrence & Ors v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2026] EWHC 493 (KB) (03 March 2026)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘In Medmoune v France App no 55026/22 (ECHR, 5 February 2026), the Fifth Section of the European Court of Human Rights considered the extent of a Member State’s obligation under Art. 2 ECHR (the right to life) when deciding to withdraw life support, in circumstances where the patient had explicitly asked for it to be continued. The judgment helpfully illustrates the contentious boundary at which informed patient consent must give way to the expert opinion of medical professionals.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 5th March 2026
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘In a recent judgment, the High Court in AAA v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2026] EWHC 317 (Fam) (Morgan J) heard 15 applications from fertility clinic patients for declaratory relief. Those patients (the “Applicants”) had embryos or gametes which were stored at various fertility clinics. They sought declarations that it was lawful for those gametes or embryos to continue to be stored and used in circumstances where their written consent to storage had expired and had not been renewed (within the timeframes provided by legislation for renewal of consent).’
UK Human Rights Blog, 3rd March 2026
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The Civil Justice Council (CJC) has published its interim report on the use of AI for preparing court documents, as it invites input into new proposals on the governance of the use of AI tools in this context.’
OUT-LAW.com, 5th March 2026
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Paul Newman KC looks at how pension documents written for one purpose often end up being used for another, and what that means for those drafting them.’
Pensions Barrister, 5th March 2026
Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has today issued a formal public censure against the solicitors’ regulator, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). This follows the regulator’s failure to protect consumers affected by the collapse of Sheffield-based law firm SSB Group Limited (SSB).’
Legal Services Board, 5th March 2026
Source: legalservicesboard.org.uk
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