‘Last week’s High Court ruling on unqualified fee-earners conducting litigation will cause “nationwide disruption”, it has been claimed, with firms urged to review their approach to supervision.’
Legal Futures, 22nd September 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Three Ofcom regulators with clipboards spent the weekend making their way around the exhibition floor of an international adult industry conference in Prague, trying to encourage the 1,700 delegates to comply with the UK’s new Online Safety Act.’
The Guardian, 21st September 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘In this episode, Lucy McCann is joined by Zelda Perkins, CEO of Can’t Buy My Silence UK and former PA to Harvey Weinstein, who broke her NDA and has since campaigned against the use of NDAs to silence workers speaking out against abuse, and Emma Darlow Stearn, a barrister practising from Cloisters Chambers, who specialises in employment and discrimination law and, in her previous role as Senior Legal Adviser for whistleblowing charity Protect, collaborated with Zelda to make the law on NDAs more accessible.’
Law Pod UK, 22nd September 2025
Source: audioboom.com
‘On 1 September, then home secretary Yvette Cooper announced the suspension of new applications under the refugee family reunion (RFR) route. This was the dedicated category for those granted refugee or humanitarian protection in the UK to be joined by their partner and children, and imposed relatively few restrictions. This closure will carry significant legal and humanitarian consequences.’
Law Society's Gazette, 18th September 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The UK’s recent and forthcoming immigration reforms represent a significant shift in policy, aiming to balance the country’s economic needs with the objective of developing a strong domestic workforce. While these changes are designed to reduce reliance on overseas labour and encourage investment in local talent, they also introduce a range of considerations for businesses and other sectors.’
EIN Blog, 17th September 2025
Source: www.ein.org.uk
‘Protests and riots occurred across eight days during the summer of 2024 in the UK. Throughout this time, the police shared countless messages with users via the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). This paper sheds light on how users responded to this content. Using a rigorous research strategy, we studied user comments on 124 police threads. Research findings illustrate that users had overwhelmingly right-wing political, social, and cultural views, describing protestors and rioters as largely peaceful ordinary British citizens, while criticising the police for so-called two-tier policing and tyranny. This is significant because it shows that users who believed that the police no longer served their interests instead identified with the protestors and rioters. For the police, our research findings highlight the need to remain on X, and to both challenge and combat hate speech.’
Policing and Society, 16th September 2025
Source: www.tandfonline.com
‘The Windrush compensation scheme must improve after it failed to consider a dying woman’s claim properly and wrongly refused to compensate her husband for the loss of his pension, an ombudsman has said.’
The Guardian, 18th September 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘In the UK and Commonwealth, an oath of allegiance is a promise to be loyal to the monarch, their heirs and successors. Also known as ‘swearing in’, it is pledged in various contexts, including at the beginning of a Parliament and when government ministers assume office. The allegiance is pledged to the monarch as the personification of the Crown – the symbol of British state authority.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 17th September 2025
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘The UK’s approach to counter terrorism preparedness has taken a significant step forward with the passing of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 (Martyn’s Law).’
Kingsley Napley Regulatory Blog, 12th September 2025
Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk
‘The Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) has referred a barrister to the Bar Standards Board for presenting a bogus court decision generated using the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool.’
Local Government Lawyer, 18th September 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Edward Sawyer of Wilberforce Chambers considers a recent determination on the British Steel Pension Scheme, in which the PO set out his general approach to claims by victims of pension transfer scams for due diligence failures by the transferor scheme trustees.’
Pensions Barrister, 18th September 2025
Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com
‘The Law Commission has recommended a set of reforms to disabled children’s social care law, after acknowledging that elements are “out of date” and “potentially unfair”.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th September 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A woman with learning difficulties has capacity to engage in sex and to marry, the Court of Protection has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 18th September 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘In a recently completed paper, Philip Murray and I develop a defence of what we term the classical account of administrative law. The question with which we are centrally concerned is whether (as the classical account holds) unlawful administrative acts are void ab initio, such that they can be treated without more as if they had never been committed, or merely voidable, meaning that they are valid and effective unless and until set aside by a competent court. While that question might seem highly technical — and, in one sense, it is — it is also a question that goes to the doctrinal and conceptual heart of administrative law, and which has profound practical and constitutional implications. The idea that unlawful acts should be treated as merely voidable — or that courts should be able to decide whether they are void or voidable — may be superficially attractive because it appears to replace conceptual rigidity with remedial flexibility. But in the article, we argue that the flip side of that coin is one that must not be ignored, and that abandoning the classical account is ultimately incompatible with upholding the rule of law.’
Public Law for Everyone, 16th September 2025
Source: publiclawforeveryone.com
‘Blue Badges are being faked, doctored, stolen and sold online, fraud investigators are warning.’
BBC News, 18th September 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Shabana Mahmood has accused asylum seekers of making “vexatious, last-minute claims” to avoid removal to France as the Home Office said it would review modern slavery laws to save Keir Starmer’s returns deal.’
The Guardian, 17th September 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The miscarriage of justice watchdog is failing prisoners appealing against wrongful convictions because it does not have forensic expertise and will not engage with third parties who do, experts have claimed.’
The Guardian, 7th September 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘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
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