Day: 6 October 2025

‘The Public Office (Accountability) Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on 16 September 2025. It gives effect to the Labour Party’s 2024 Manifesto commitment to introduce a ‘Hillsborough Law’ which will ‘place a legal duty of candour on public servants and authorities and provide legal aid for victims of disasters or state-related deaths’. As the Government’s ‘Duty of Candour Factsheet’, produced to supplement the Bill, explains, the Bill represents ‘a powerful new package of measures to address these failings and others seen at Grenfell Tower, in the infected blood and Horizon scandals – and in too many other examples over too many years’.’

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UK Constitutional Law Association, 6th October 2025

Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org

‘The government recently announced it will begin deporting foreign national offenders who are given a custodial sentence as soon as possible after they are convicted. Once deported, it will be up to the receiving country to determine if the offender serves any prison time. This development is the logical end of the repeated expansion of this policy in recent years.’

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EIN Blog, 3rd October 2025

Source: www.ein.org.uk

‘In O’Connell, Christopher Kennedy KC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, dismissed claims in negligence and under the Animals Act 1971 brought by a former gunner in the Royal Horse Artillery. He also found that the claim was fundamentally dishonest.’

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1 QMLR, 3rd October 2025

Source: 1corqmlr.com

‘A litigant in person (LiP) who was “extremely abusive” to a district judge in a family case and made “direct threats of physical violence” has been jailed for four months for contempt in the face of the court.’

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Legal Futures, 2nd October 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘Civil liberty groups have expressed concern over government plans to hand police greater powers to restrict protests as organisers of mass demonstrations against the banning of Palestine Action pledged a “major escalation” of their campaign.’

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The Guardian, 5th October 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘Grandparents who murdered their two-year-old grandson had a “campaign to break” him and did not like it when he stood up for himself, a judge has said as he jailed them for life.’

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BBC News, 3rd October 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘The Legal Services Board is convening a meeting of the frontline regulators next week to discuss the continuing fall-out from the Mazur ruling, Legal Futures can reveal.’

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Legal Futures, 3rd October 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘A father who murdered his two-week-old baby son on a neonatal ward has been jailed for life.’

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BBC News, 3rd October 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk