Day: 15 July 2026

‘Sustainability is everywhere now. It turns up in all-staff emails and new module titles, in strategy documents and calls for papers, and mostly we let it pass without asking what it commits us to. The familiar objection is that the concept is anthropocentric, that it manages nature for human benefit rather than valuing it in its own right. That objection is real, but it is also well worn, and a narrower question seems to me more revealing. When a statute or a treaty commits us to sustainable development and a dispute reaches court, does the concept help the judge decide the case? The suggestion here is that it does very little, because sustainability lacks what might be called an adjudicative architecture: the machinery a claim needs before a court can act on it, an account of who may sue, of what counts as harm, and of what a court may order. Constitutional rights supply that machinery, and the rights of nature increasingly do too. Sustainability does not.’

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City Law Forum, 15th July 2026

Source: blogs.city.ac.uk

‘A teenage student subjected to a four-year “catfishing” nightmare after her identity was stolen by another teenage girl in her town has won a £10,000 High Court damages payout.’

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The Independent, 15th July 2026

Source: www.independent.co.uk

‘The Commercial Court of England and Wales has given guidance on what factors courts should consider when deciding whether to make a filing modification order (FMO) under a new document access pilot.’

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OUT-LAW.com, 14th July 2026

Source: www.pinsentmasons.com

‘In September 2024, the Government suspended around thirty arms export licences to Israel, having found a clear risk that United Kingdom equipment might be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law. It exempted one category, creating a carve-out for components made in the United Kingdom for the F-35 combat aircraft, which continued to reach Israel through the global spares pool. When that carve-out was challenged, the Divisional Court in R (Al-Haq) v Secretary of State for Business and Trade (30 June 2025) accepted that the clear-risk finding was, in the Foreign Secretary’s own view, the only conclusion available to him at [36]. It nonetheless held that whether the continued supply complied with the United Kingdom’s international obligations was not a question a domestic court could decide.’

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UK Constitutional Law Association, 15th July 2026

Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org

‘A motoring solicitor from Cheshire has been found guilty of impersonating a police officer after trying to get CCTV footage from a Nando’s restaurant.’

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Legal Futures, 15th July 2026

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘Class action firm Pogust Goodhead (PG) was “unhelpful, uncooperative, deliberately obfuscatory and misleading” by not revealing its client’s litigation funding problems for three years, the Competition Appeal Tribunal has ruled.’

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Legal Futures, 15th July 2026

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘Sabrina Carpenter’s song ‘House Tour’, which has been topping the charts across the country, is a helpful albeit unconventional springboard to consider the law for unmarried cohabitants as it stands, and comment on how proposed reform might better protect families in England and Wales today.’

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Financial Remedies Journal, 15th July 2026

Source: financialremediesjournal.com

‘A Labrador-loving parish councillor has lost a four-year court fight after his neighbour started tearing out the “dog-proof fence” around his £1.2m country home during a boundary row.’

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The Independent, 15th July 2026

Source: www.independent.co.uk

‘Two young members of a criminal hacking group who carried out a cyber attack on Transport for London (TfL) that cost the organisation millions of pounds are facing jail.’

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The Independent, 15th July 2026

Source: www.independent.co.uk

‘A new treaty governing the future of Gibraltar has been formally signed by the UK and the European Union, aiming to alleviate border crossing complexities and resolve long-standing uncertainty regarding [the UK’s] relationship with Spain.’

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The Independent, 14th July 2026

Source: www.independent.co.uk

‘The Home Office is set to ignore a high court ruling and continue sending asylum seekers to France without looking into claims they have been trafficked, which last week was found to be unlawful.’

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The Guardian, 14th July 2026

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘A man has been jailed for life after being found guilty of the rape and murder of his estranged wife and staging a scene to make her death look like suicide.’

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BBC News, 14th July 2026

Source: www.bbc.co.uk