‘The biggest legal claim ever brought in the UK over environmental pollution in the country has been filed at the High Court.’
BBC News, 7th October 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Law firms should consider prohibiting non-authorised staff from being clients’ main point of contact in the wake of the Mazur ruling, a leading insurance broker has warned.’
Legal Futures, 9th October 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘An engineering storeman sacked after saying to a colleague “top of the morning to ya” in a mock Irish accent has won more than £16,000 for unfair dismissal.’
BBC News, 8th October 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A high-powered Court of Appeal has overturned and completely rejected a High Court ruling that had opened a crack in advocates’ immunity.’
Legal Futures, 9th October 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The justice secretary, David Lammy, has ruled out reintroducing charges for employment tribunals after a backlash from unions over the proposals.’
The Guardian, 8th October 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man who imprisoned and beat his partner, and forced her to wear a full face-covering to hide bruising, has been found guilty of coercive control, strangulation, unlawful wounding, actual bodily harm and fraud.
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BBC News, 8th October 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Prime Minister insists that the dropping of China-related espionage charges occurred for reasons entirely outwith the control of his government — but his argument that his hands were tied by the previous government’s position on China is, at best, highly contestable.’
Public Law for Everyone, 8th October 2025
Source: publiclawforeveryone.com
‘A British Transport Police officer who put a 15-year-old girl in a headlock during an arrest has been found guilty of assault.’
The Guardian, 9th October 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Paul Newman KC looks at a recent High Court case dealing with further issues arising from the enforcement of judgment debts against pension schemes.’
Pensions Barrister, 9th October 2025
Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com
‘A man has been found guilty of stalking TV and radio presenter Myleene Klass, after posting her items that included a gun, handcuffs, and a police uniform.’
BBC News, 7th October 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Victims of the UK’s car finance scandal are likely to receive compensation payouts averaging £700 resulting from 14m unfair loans, the City regulator said on Tuesday.’
The Guardian, 7th October 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Whilst work is leading to improvement, London remains an “outlier” in terms of the time it takes to determine care proceedings and the number of hearings it takes to do so, with “too many” incidences of non-compliance with the Public Law Outline (PLO), the Family Presiding Judge for London has warned.’
Local Government Lawyer, 7th October 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Lord Wolfson’s advice was commissioned by the Conservative Party and is known as the Wolfson Report. It is important to note at the outset that, despite its title on the Party website, Lord Wolfson emphasises that this is “neither a policy paper nor a report. It is a legal analysis”, in other words, advice to the leader of the Conservative party. For reasons of economy in the following paragraphs I will refer to this 185 page document as a “report”.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th October 2025
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Robert Jenrick has hit out at “activist” judges, as he set out Conservative plans to hand ministers a bigger role in filling judicial vacancies.’
BBC News, 6th October 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A convicted paedophile who described himself as the “Kardashian of Cheshire” has been jailed for fraud after he used an elaborate luxury handbag scam to steal nearly £200,000.’
The Guardian, 7th October 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘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’.’
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.’
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.’
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.’
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.’
The Guardian, 5th October 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
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