Day: 12 September 2025

‘The London Borough of Redbridge has been recommended to pay £6,950 by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman after it failed to properly assess the capacity of three family members to make a homelessness application when they told the council they were suffering domestic abuse.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 12th September 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘The Family Court has discharged a “phalanx of orders” secured by a local authority to prohibit a mother and father taking their four children to a country deemed unsafe by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, describing the unnamed local authority’s approach as “dictatorial”.’

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Local government Lawyer, 11th September 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘A father and his two adult children have been imprisoned after being found guilty of inciting racial hatred through neo-Nazi music.’

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Crown Prosecution Service, 11th September 2025

Source: www.cps.gov.uk

‘In a damning report published today, the House of Commons public accounts committee criticises the Ministry of Justice and Department for Education for failing to recognise the urgent need for reform “glaringly obvious to court users”.’

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Law Society Gazette, 12th September 2025

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘For financial remedy lawyers, life’s certainties are death, taxes, and discovering assets the other side swore blind didn’t exist. The Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Entwistle v Helliwell [2025] EWCA Civ 1055 is a timely reminder that, with pre-nuptial agreements, disclosure isn’t just a polite formality, it’s the concrete slab the whole thing rests on.’

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Financial Remedies Journal, 11th September 2025

Source: financialremediesjournal.com

‘A man who tried to smuggle cocaine worth almost £1m into the UK by hiding it in an electric wheelchair has been jailed.’

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BBC News, 12th September 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk