‘Desperate prisoners who have been trapped in jail for up to 20 years for minor offences such as stealing a mobile phone could finally get a release date under landmark new proposals.’
The Independent, 21st June 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘In the run-up to the 2024 general election, the Labour Party set out its vision for policing and criminal justice, setting itself the ambitious target of halving knife crime in a decade. The Crime and Policing Bill is the Government’s legislative follow-through on those promises. Introduced in the House of Commons on 25 February 2025, the Bill is comprehensive and wide-ranging. Among its most significant provisions are those in Part 2 aimed at tightening the regulation of remote knife sales.’
2 Hare Court, 11th June 2025
Source: www.2harecourt.com
‘In our latest article about the Building Safety Act 2022, Joe Ollech and Tricia Hemans consider the recent decision of the FTT in Barclays Nominees (George Yard) Limited v LDC (Oxford Road Bournemouth) Limited HAV/00HN/BSA/2024/0001 and 0002 (“Purbeck House”).’
Falcon Chambers, 19th June 2025
Source: www.falcon-chambers.com
‘Pre-nuptial agreements are not binding under legislation in England and Wales but can have decisive weight on divorce provided they are not unfair. Pressure is mounting for reform, because it is not always clear when the court will determine when an agreement is unfair. However, circumspection is needed before introducing legislation that would make such agreements binding. There are gaps in what we know about pre- and post-nuptial agreements on the ground. There are no data on how the current judge-made law on nuptial agreements is applied (or even if it is applied) outside the context of the ‘big money’ case. This article uses new interview data with barristers and FDR judges to explore these unreported nuptial agreements. It presents six findings that reveal much that is not apparent in big money cases, while informing key questions such as whether nuptial agreements should be made binding, if there might be unintended consequences of reform, and how fairness could be facilitated if legislation were to be introduced.’
International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 6th June 2025
Source: doi.org
‘As Deputy Master Marzec put it at the start of her judgment in Appiah & Anor v Leeds City Council & Anor [2025] EWHC 1537 (KB):
1. This claim concerns the detention of the First Claimant (“C1”), under the Mental Health Act 1983 (“the MHA 1983”). She was detained between 26 April 2019 and 23 August 2019, a period of about 4 months, during which time she was given treatment in the form of depot injections of anti-psychotic medications without her consent and against her will. She alleges that such detention and treatment was unlawful and constituted false imprisonment and various breaches of her rights under the European Convention of Human Rights. The Second Claimant (“C2”), C1’s husband, claims an infringement of his right to family life under Article 8 of the ECHR resulting from his having been deprived of his wife’s company for the period during which she was unlawfully detention. The Claimants are, and at all relevant times have been, litigants in person.’
Mental Capacity Law and Policy, 20th June 2025
‘Shadow AG Lord Wolfson of Tredegar joins Marina Wheeler KC and Rosalind English of 1 Crown Office Row to discuss the legal questions to be addressed by the government in relation to the ECHR. We will follow up this episode with Lord Wolfson’s view of the UK’s obligations under international law regarding the current situation in the Middle East.’
Law Pod UK. 23rd June 2025
Source: audioboom.com
‘A married couple have been jailed for the attempted murder of the husband’s stepmother, an attack carried out with a hammer and knife, while wearing animal masks purchased from Poundland.’
The Independent, 20th June 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Residents of two Nigerian communities who are taking legal action against Shell over oil pollution are set to take their cases to trial at the high court in 2027.’
The Guardian, 20th June 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Most women in law (88%) believe sex discrimination is still prevalent in the profession, with 63% saying they had personally experienced it in the last five years, new research has shown.’
Legal Futures, 23rd June 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘There has been significant commentary on UK Supreme Court’s (UKSC) decision which held that the terms “man”, “woman” and “sex” under the Equality Act 2010 (EA) only refer to a cisgender man/cisgender woman. However, there is scope to assess what role separate grounds of ‘sex’ and ‘gender reassignment’ under the EA played in the court’s narrow interpretation of ‘sex’ as “biological”, sex (birth-assigned sex).’
Oxford Human Rights Hub, 23rd June 2025
Source: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk
‘Terminally ill people in England and Wales are to be given the right to an assisted death in a historic societal shift that will transform end-of-life care.’
The Guardian, 20th June 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘While legislation and administrative frameworks shape how landowners own or use their land, land law continues to be understood primarily as a private law subject. Public interventions are conventionally treated as outside land law’s remit and are rarely addressed in property theorization. Responding to this absence, this article outlines the scope of public land law—understood as the governance of land by the state in the public interest—introducing the concept of property as authorized, where land ownership and use are limited by authorization. The analysis draws on examples from planning, leasehold reform, and public access legislation, alongside human rights protections under Article 1 of Protocol 1 (A1P1) of the ECHR and the newly recognized fundamental common law right to property, to show how public and private land law both constitute property. By examining these interactions, the article encourages greater engagement with public land law to understand how land law operates today.’
Current Legal Problems, 16th June 2025
Source: academic.oup.com
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