‘The UK advertising watchdog has received a complaint about its own high-profile UK-wide campaign, accusing it of breaking the rules it enforces around misleading marketing.’
The Guardian, 8th September 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Insolvency practitioners have been issued guidance on members’ voluntary liquidations (MVLs) following a recent surprising decision by the High Court in England & Wales.’
OUT-LAW.com, 8th September 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The Secretary of State for the Home Department (“SSHD”) Yvette Cooper has trained her crosshairs squarely on foreign national families in her recent announcement, declaring the suspension and reform of the refugee family reunion scheme and a review of “the application of Article 8 in the immigration and asylum system.” The suspension came with a statement of changes to the Immigration Rules today at 3pm.’
Kingsley Napley Immigration Law Blog, 4th September 2025
Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk
‘The UK advertising watchdog has received a complaint about its own high-profile UK-wide campaign, accusing it of breaking the rules it enforces around misleading marketing.’
The Guardian, 8th September 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The report of the independent review of bullying, harassment and sexual harassment at the Bar, chaired by Baroness Harriet Harman KC, sets out 36 recommendations.’
The Bar Council, 8th September 2025
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘In this new, much more extreme, case, the boy ‘M’, now 16, had been taken with his siblings from the UK to live in Somalia by his mother six years ago. M was born in the UK and is a UK citizen; he went to a local primary school in the UK. In Somalia, he became fearful for his life because his mother is part of a strong religious group and he had started to question those beliefs.’
Transparency Project, 7th September 2025
Source: transparencyproject.org.uk
‘Sexual relations between barristers and pupils and anyone undertaking work experience in their chambers should be banned to prevent predatory abuse at the England and Wales bar, a review by the Labour peer Harriet Harman has concluded.’
The Guardian, 8th September 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Martha’s rule, which lets NHS patients request a review of their care, is now in operation in every acute hospital in England, health service bosses disclosed on Thursday.’
The Guardian, 4th September 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘People who instruct barristers through the public access scheme are much more likely to be seeking advice than representation in court, new research has indicated.’
Legal Futures, 4th September 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has quashed planning permission given by South Norfolk District Council for a new house, which a neighbour complained would have a detrimental impact on their property.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd September 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘On 22 July 2025, the Crown Estate (Wales) Bill passed unopposed through report stage in the House of Lords. The Bill, which seeks to devolve the management of the Crown Estate in Wales, was introduced as a Private Members’ Bill in the Lords by the former leader of Plaid Cymru, Lord Wigley. This is by no means the first attempt at such a scheme – Plaid Cymru introduced an identical Bill in the Commons in 2021, as well as tabling amendments to the Crown Estate Bill 2024-25 to attempt to effect devolution to Wales – but serves as an important moment in recent developments on the devolution of the Crown Estate in Wales. At the time of writing, the UK Government remains opposed to the devolution of the Crown Estate in Wales. This short analysis will consider the increasing territorialisation of the Crown Estate, will assess the arguments for and against its devolution in Wales, and will analyse the scheme for devolution put forward under the Bill.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, September 2025
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘A man who admitted sexually assaulting two girls aged 11 and 15 has been jailed for 23 months.’
BBC News, 3rd September 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A court has frozen £150m of assets belonging to the owner of the collapsed Prax Lindsey oil refinery, an oil tycoon whose whereabouts have been a mystery since the plant’s sudden financial implosion earlier this year.’
The Guardian, 4th 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The judiciary is staying silent on lord chancellor Shabana Mahmood’s decision to grant herself a veto on sentencing guidance amid concern the new ministerial power threatens judges’ independence.’
Law Society's Gazette, 3rd September 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘English water companies have spent £16.6m fighting legal action against regulators and campaigners over environmental breaches such as illegal sewage spills.’
The Guardian, 2nd September 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘On 17 August 2023 the Ministry of Defence (MoD) put the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on broad notice about the devastating failure of data protection that is now generally known as the Afghan data breach (although sadly there have been many others). This involved the illegal release of some 33,000 lines of gravely sensitive personal spreadsheet data which put almost 100,000 people – up to 25,000 Afghans applying for relocation to the UK as well as their family members, many of whom were also identified in the data – at grave risk of harm and may even have resulted in some of their deaths. However, despite details of this egregious and illegal exposure of data subjects being immediately required by law and subsequently coming into view, the ICO decided not to carry out any investigation and therefore not to take any enforcement action, such as issuing a fine, enforcement notice or even a mere reprimand. Astonishingly, the ICO also made no contemporaneous record whatsoever of the rationale for these critical decisions or even the bare fact that they had been made. Given the exacting supervisory requirements set down in the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), these subsequent (in)actions expose further serious failings in UK data protection. These failings point to the need for an in-depth independent investigation of UK data protection regulation, which should also explore the serious gap between the UK GDPR’s promises and the ICO’s hyper-discretionary and hyper-selective track-record and approach and what might be done to address this. What follows merely provides a partial indication of some of the particular issues which arise in relation to Afghan spreadsheet data breach itself. It is based on the (still very limited) information which has come into public view so far and builds on a previous blog post on the same subject posted last month.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 3rd September 2025
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Epping Forest District Council has asked for permission to take its case against a hotel housing asylum seekers to the Supreme Court.’
BBC News, 2nd September 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal allowed the Claimant’s appeal against the decision of Nicklin J in PMC -v- A Local Health Board [2024] EWHC 2969 (KB). The judgment was written by Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, with whom Warby LJ and Whipple LJ agreed. Nicklin J had doubted the Court of Appeal’s decision in JX MX -v- Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust [2015] EWCA Civ 96.’
1 QMLR. 2nd September 2025
Source: 1corqmlr.com
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