‘This article explains the broader stakes of contemporary British gambling reform debates, via an analysis of the White Paper High Stakes: Gambling Reform for the Digital Age (2023). I lay out the context to the White Paper, and I summarise its main proposals, focusing especially on efforts to reduce the harms caused by gambling. I also offer a critical analysis of one particularly significant and contentious proposed reform: mandated affordability checks for online gambling, when losses reach certain thresholds. I suggest that these checks reflect and deepen a shared regulatory, industry, and academic faith in online gambling technologies to resolve social responsibility problems, with wider implications for consumer surveillance and public health.’

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Modern Law Review, 2nd July 2024

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‘The use of non-financial reporting and due diligence legislation to force companies to address specific adverse effects of their operations has become an increasingly common tool for policymakers in recent years. To date, international legislative activity has mainly focussed on potential breaches of human rights and environmental obligations but has also included aspects of labour law. This article proposes a new law that adapts the concept of corporate due diligence to the field of labour law. The new law uses a reflexive model of legislation which is referred to as Labour Law Due Diligence. The under-resourced system of labour market enforcement in the UK and workers’ reluctance to use litigation to defend their rights means that persistent non-compliance by employers can go unpunished. Employers would be obliged to carry out an annual audit to assess whether they comply with key labour law obligations and make the results public. Non-compliant employers would need to remedy any unlawful practices within a year or face the prospect of enforcement action being taken against them. Through an evaluation of UK legislation which has attempted to force companies to address specific legislative goals through public disclosure of data, the article seeks to address the weaknesses of such legislation by involving stakeholders and introducing robust systems of enforcement.’

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Industrial Law Journal, 24th July 2024

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‘This case review considers Theis J’s judgment in Re Z (Surrogacy: Step-parent Adoption) [2024] EWFC 20, in which she refused a step-parent adoption order but made several other orders in relation to contact and the exercise of parental responsibility between the three adults involved. I posit that while the judgment probably represents the best possible outcome all round – especially the best interests of the child at its heart – it does not reflect the lived reality of most surrogacy agreements entered into in this country, or the experiences of those involved. It does, however, indicate that proposed reforms as recommended by the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission in 2023 would be welcome, especially as the intention behind them is precisely to protect against breakdowns in surrogacy arrangements such as sadly happened in this case.’

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Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 23rd July 2024

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‘Staff at a hospital in Nottingham missed two opportunities to treat a woman found dying under a coat in a crowded emergency department, a coroner has concluded.’

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The Guardian, 25th July 2024

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‘A tale of small win against airline leads to big Supreme Court ruling on pre- and post- Brexit compensation. Rosalind English in conversation with David Hart KC.’

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Law Pod UK, 25th July 2024

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‘The UK government scheme allowing EU citizens to remain post-Brexit is in danger of being upended, legal experts have warned, after a series of conflicting court rulings over social welfare payments to French and Slovenian citizens and the relative of a Spanish woman living in Britain.’

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The Guardian, 25th July 2024

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‘No arguable public law error arose when the London Borough of Hounslow assessed a Sudanese asylum seeker as being an adult.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 25th July 2024

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‘A “sadistic and manipulative” former Spandau Ballet singer has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault.’

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The Guardian, 25th July 2024

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‘Keir Starmer is under pressure to fulfil a promise to allow a parliamentary vote on legalising assisted dying as a bill is to be introduced into the House of Lords on Friday.’

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The Guardian, 26th July 2024

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‘Paul Newman KC has written a casenote on today’s decision, in which the CA dismissed the appeal against the judge’s decision that the contracting-out legislation required amendments which only affected future service benefits to be accompanied by written actuarial confirmation.’

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Pensions Barrister, 25th July 2024

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‘Violence and self-harm in Britain’s prisons is soaring while drugs are readily available with almost a quarter of jails overcrowded, grim new data has revealed.’

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The Independent, 25th July 2024

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‘Two Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists who threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers have been found guilty of criminal damage.’

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BBC News, 25th July 2024

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‘The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has removed a housing licensing penalty imposed on one member of a married couple and reduced the penalty on the other.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 25th July 2024

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‘Prisoners facing indefinite sentences will not have their cases addressed as part of the new Labour government’s planned sentencing review, prisons minister Lord Timpson has said.’

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The Independent, 24th July 2024

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‘Claimant costs bills for clinical negligence claims valued up to £25,000 now exceed damages for the first time, according to NHS data.’

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Legal Studies, 25th July 2024

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