Category: news

‘The legal dispute between Getty Images (and its associated companies) and Stability AI revolves around complex issues of copyright infringement, database rights, trademark infringement, and passing off. The arguments centred on the use of Getty Images’ visual content in the training and operation of Stability AI’s generative AI model, Stable Diffusion. Media firm Mischcon de Reya has acclaimed this as the “one of the most anticipated cases in recent years.” The case has significant implications for intellectual property law as it intersects with the development and deployment of AI technologies in the UK.’

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UK Human Rights Blog, 7th November 2025

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‘The fee-earner at the heart of the Mazur ruling is a ‘senior litigation executive’ who was suspended indefinitely as a solicitor 17 years ago, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has revealed.’

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Legal Futures, 7th November 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘Victims of child exploitation and grooming will have their child prostitution convictions disregarded after years of “appalling injustice”.’

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The Independent, 6th November 2025

Source: www.independent.co.uk

‘Adverts claiming that wood-burning stoves are “very low emissions” have been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency for being misleading and not substantiated.’

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The Guardian, 6th November 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘The Metropolitan Police has a structural problem with “systematic racism”, an independent report into anti-black harm within the force has warned.’

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BBC News, 7th November 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘HM Land Registry (HMLR) will have “automated almost all simple requests to change the register” by 2035, offering “a near-instant service” for home buying and selling.’

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Legal Futures, 7th November 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘A man who murdered a “good Samaritan” by running him over as he helped an injured woman has been jailed for a minimum of 26 years.’

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The Guardian, 6th November 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘There was a lot of media coverage back in February of this unusual story of a British teenage boy who’d taken his parents to court to try to get back home to London from Ghana. His parents had tricked him into visiting Ghana in early 2024 where they’d left him, against his wishes, in a boarding school. They had been worried about his recent violent behaviour and getting involved in criminal activity, including theft of phones and possession of knives. At the date of the latest hearing in October this year, his parents were still opposed to his applications to come back to the UK. They believe he is only safe in Ghana.’

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Transparency Project, 6th November 2025

Source: transparencyproject.org.uk

‘Last week, after a migrant sex offender was mistakenly released from prison, Justice Secretary David Lammy said he was implementing the “strongest release checks that have ever been in place”.’

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BBC News, 5th November 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Rupert Murdoch’s news publisher in the UK agreed to pay “substantial damages” to a man wrongly arrested for a high-profile murder, after apologising for the invasion of his privacy.’

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The Guardian, 5th November 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘There has been an ongoing debate in the UK about anti-money (AML) supervision. Those institutions, businesses and professions which are most likely to be targeted by criminals to launder money must abide by strict standards to identify customers and to prevent their services from being exploited.’

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Kingsley Napley Regulatory Blog, 5th November 2025

Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk

‘Government plans to radically reform sentencing will lead to an increase in crime by as much as 6% in a single year, according to police chiefs.’

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The Guardian, 6th November 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘Do advocates retain an absolute immunity for things and said and done in court, or must the invocation of the immunity be scrutinised on a case-by-case basis? A heavyweight panel of the Court of Appeal – including the Lady Chief Justice and the President of the King’s Bench Division – in Chief Constable of Sussex Police and the Crown Prosecution Service v XGY (Bar Council intervening) [2025] EWCA Civ 1230 (“XGY”) has come down decisively in favour of the former proposition, offering some much-needed clarity on this area of law.’

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UK Human Rights Blog, 5th November 2025

Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com

‘A 14-year-old British boy who took his parents to court after they sent him to boarding school in Africa must remain there until at least the end of his GCSEs, a High Court judge has ruled.”

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BBC News, 4th November 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Last summer, a woman and a man were embracing blissfully at a Coldplay concert when they were caught by a ‘kiss cam’, a camera that is used in concerts to capture and show on a big screen people who are kissing during a performance. It is supposed to be an exciting moment. However, as soon as this couple saw themselves on the big screen, they panicked and covered their faces. Chris Martin, the singer of Coldplay, joked about their reaction: they are either very shy or have an affair, he said. Someone captured the ‘kiss cam’ moment and the singer’s comment in a video, and posted it on social media. The couple happened to also be colleagues, senior executives of a US company: the man was the Chief Executive Officer and the woman was Chief People Officer. As soon as the video was posted, and for days and weeks after that, they were publicly humiliated on social and mainstream media across the world for allegedly having an extramarital affair. Later on it emerged that at least one of them had already been separated from her partner. Never mind – too late for the moral outrage on social media. As soon as the Coldplay incident occurred, both were suspended from work. Soon after that, they resigned.’

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UK Labour Law, 5th November 2025

Source: uklabourlawblog.com

‘The Mazur ruling is further evidence of “a growing case for re-examining the legislative foundations of legal services regulation”, the Ministry of Justice has said.’

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Legal Futures, 5th November 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘A London-based artificial intelligence firm has won a landmark high court case examining the legality of AI models using vast troves of copyrighted data without permission.’

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The Guardian, 4th November 2025

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‘A gardener who was paralysed after falling off a ladder at a multimillionaire couple’s mansion has lost a High Court battle for more than £1 million in compensation.’

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The Independent, 3rd November 2025

Source: www.independent.co.uk

‘The first chartered legal executive (CLE) with standalone litigation practice rights could be authorised in six weeks’ time, with around 2,300 expected to apply for them in the next 18 months, it has emerged.’

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Legal Futures, 4th November 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘TalkTV, the online channel owned by Rupert Murdoch’s news empire, breached impartiality rules in a show that repeatedly accused the government of cancelling local elections out of fear of Reform UK.’

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The Guardian, 3rd November 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com