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‘The government has proclaimed the Employment Rights Act 2025 as the biggest upgrade of workers’ rights for a generation.Footnote1 That is no exaggeration. The Act brings significant benefits for working people. But the Act does not address various aspects of industrial relations which were originally planned by the Labour Party and which might have had a profound impact on the inherent imbalance of power which so marks the UK workplace.’

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King's Law Journal, 25th August 2026

Source: www.tandfonline.com

‘The Court of Appeal has thrown out a bid to appeal a ruling that cleared defendant law firm DWF of data protection breaches.’

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Legal Futures, 28th August 2026

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘Investigators specialising in rape and sex offences will be introduced to every police force in England and Wales by the end of 2027, the government has said.’

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BBC News, 27th August 2026

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Reform Party MP Danny Kruger is concerned. The UK, he says, has ‘a bloated, paralysed centre of government and a mutinous bureaucracy’; and that ‘Real power is held not by the elected government but by the permanent Civil Service’. So he has set out some proposed changes for the civil service should Reform become the government. These proposals prompt us to ask: what is the civil service for?’

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UK Constitutional Law Association, 27th August 2026

Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org

‘Strange are the ways in which AI can escape and do harm; equally strange are the curious mechanisms whereby water can escape and do harm.’

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UK Human Rights Blog, 28th August 2026

Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com

‘The family of a woman killed after a high-speed race through residential streets says it is a “relief” the government was considering changing the law around defendants who are considered unfit to stand trial.’

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BBC News, 27th August 2026

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘A chemistry teacher has been found guilty of indecently assaulting two teenage pupils at an all-boys school in the late 1980s.’

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The Guardian, 27th August 2026

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘A KC has issued a plea to housing law specialists for help continuing a popular blog set up by solicitor Giles Peaker, who died earlier this year. Nearly Legal, which Peaker set up in 2006, was a go-to resource for lawyers, judges, academics and the public.’

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Law Society Gazette, 27th August 2026

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘The Legal Ombudsman has given its strongest indication yet that it will publish case decisions in full – but not until next year at the earliest.’

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Law Society Gazette, 27th August 2026

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘A local authority whose offer was well beaten in a compensation dispute over a compulsory purchase order has been ordered to pay indemnity costs.’

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Law Society Gazette, 26th August 2026

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘In Meerna Ali Ghuloom Faraj v Sohail Sultan Ahmad & Anor [2026] EWCA Civ 962, the Court of Appeal allowed both spouses’ appeals and the bank’s appeal, concluding that the trial judge’s factual findings could not stand and ordering a retrial.’

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Financial Remedies Journal, 26th August 2026

Source: financialremediesjournal.com

‘This second blog post from Immigration Barrister Jack Dingley looks forward to the sweeping changes set to be introduced by the Immigration and Asylum Bill currently working its way through Parliament, which will introduce a new appeals body and create a third category of appeals should it come into force.’

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EIN Blog, 26th August 2026

Source: www.ein.org.uk

‘It will come as no surprise to practitioners operating in the Immigration and Asylum chamber of the Tribunal that changes are afoot, but what exactly is happening, and how should we adapt?’

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EIN Blog, 26th August 2026

Source: www.ein.org.uk

‘The system which handles appeals against the Home Office’s asylum and immigration decisions looks set, once again, to be overhauled. If enacted, Part 1 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill would replace the existing First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum chamber) (FTIAC) with a new body known as the Independent Immigration Appeals Authority (IIAA) (clause 1). The existing jurisdictions of the FTIAC would be transferred to the IIAA meaning that, among other things, it would decide appeals against protection and human rights decisions (here, asylum appeals), immigration bail applications, challenges to citizenship deprivation and cases concerned with the application of the EU Citizen Resettlement schemes (clause 1(2)).’

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UK Constitutional Law Association, 26th August 2026

Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org

‘The ownership of a headstone is important in relation to the nature of its memorialisation and the liabilities related to safety. A comprehensive review of the legislation is provided by McClean Ch. in Re Kilnhurst St. Thomas [2012] Sheffield Const. Ct., McClean Ch.’

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Law & Religion UK, 27th August 2026

Source: lawandreligionuk.com

‘A recent UK Pensions Ombudsman (PO) determination underlines that an employer contribution made intentionally will not necessarily qualify as a “genuine error” capable of being rectified simply because the member relied mistakenly on what they believed was financial advice in relation to the tax implications of the payment.’

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OUT-LAW.com, 26th August 2026

Source: www.pinsentmasons.com

‘A miscarriage of justice “analogous” to the wrongful conviction of solicitor Sally Clark for the murder of her two baby boys in 1999 “could still occur”, a barrister and the director of an expert evidence service provider have argued.’

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Legal Futures, 26th August 2026

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘An experienced criminal law barrister has been reprimanded and fined for an “outburst of racist language” when talking to a trainee police officer at Snaresbrook Crown Court.’

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Legal Futures, 27th August 2026

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘The High Court has struck out the entirety of a £2.8m claim brought by a child and his mother against a London borough, a number of schools, an NHS trust, a housing association and others arising from the child’s education, health and recreational services.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 26th August 2026

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘The recently published judgment in Kent County Council v M & Ors [2026] EWFC 212 (B) is very critical of a parent and baby residential assessment business, named as Savannah Lodge, and also critical of a paediatrician, who is named only as “Dr G”.’

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The Transparency Project, 23rd August 2026

Source: transparencyproject.org.uk