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‘At lunchtime, when she is working at her barristers’ chambers in central London, Charlotte Proudman, a specialist in family law, faces a confronting choice. Should she nip around the corner to Pret a Manger or join her colleagues at the Middle Temple dining hall? It’s not so much a question of whether she feels like a sandwich or a sit-down meal, but a more existential decision, requiring her to analyse who she is and where she belongs.’

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The Guardian, 24th April 2025

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‘Leading economists, former government advisers and ecologists are calling for a key section of the government’s planning bill to be changed because it creates a “licence to kill nature”.’

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The Guardian, 24th April 2025

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‘The regulator has published the final version of its Children’s Codes under the Online Safety Act, setting out what sites must do to follow the law and protect children online.’

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The Independent, 24th April 2025

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The Guardian, 23rd April 2025

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‘The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) – which is directed by the Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) and the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), representing publishers and authors – will develop the licence, set to be the first of its kind in the UK.’

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The Guardian, 23rd April 2025

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‘Political parties are expected to be told that trans women cannot be on women-only shortlists but trans men can.’

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BBC News, 23rd April 2025

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‘A former police officer has been jailed for 10 years and six months after leading a paddleboarding expedition on a rain-swollen river that ended in four people losing their lives.’

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The Guardian, 23rd April 2025

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‘National firm Irwin Mitchell has shed its asset management business one year after a damning ruling on a potential conflict of interest.’

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Law Society's Gazette, 22nd April 2025

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‘The proportion of consumers using solicitors for their wills has dropped below half for the first time, a report has found, with unbundling growing in popularity.’

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Legal Futures, 22nd April 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘A recent decision of the UK Pensions Ombudsman (PO) confirmed that there was no unreasonable delay by an administrator where a member had not communicated the actual deadline by which he required the transfer to take place.’

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OUT-LAW.com, 23rd April 2025

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‘In a significant development for cross-border legal proceedings, it was recently announced that the Hague Judgments Convention 2019, due to come into force in the UK this summer but previously limited to England and Wales, will be extended.’

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OUT-LAW.com, 23rd April 2025

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‘Under a regulation known as the “80/20 rule”, no more than 20% of the terminals in arcades and bingo premises can be category B3, a class of slot machine that allows stakes of up to £2, promising prizes of up to £500.’

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The Guardian, 23rd April 2025

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‘When neighbours Ele Weeks-Bell and Maggie Coles were setting up their commonhold flats 15 years ago, they struggled to find a lawyer who could help them.’

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The Guardian, 23rd April 2025

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‘Prison officers are expected to be allowed to use pepper spray to incapacitate children under plans to curb an increase in violence at young offender institutions.’

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The Guardian, 22nd April 2025

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‘Police chiefs will be able to automatically sack officers who fail background checks, under new government measures to boost confidence in policing.’

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BBC News, 23rd April 2025

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‘A man who posed as a group property manager for Greggs has been jailed for four years after fraudulently claiming more than £710,000 from Leeds City Council in Covid-19 support grants intended for small businesses.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 22nd April 2025

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‘Fergus McCombie and Louisa Simpson consider a recent Court of Appeal case concerning whether job applicants are entitled to whistleblower protection.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 18th April 2025

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‘Relatives of two of the four people who died in a paddleboarding tragedy on a swollen river have fiercely criticised a former police officer who led the tour over a weir despite having only basic qualifications.’

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The Guardian, 22nd April 2025

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‘Almost 250 people have been imprisoned for breaching antisocial behaviour injunctions (asbis) since 2020, with people being jailed for sleeping rough, begging, feeding birds and making a noise.’

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The Guardian, 21st April 2025

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‘Former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption has warned that organisations are potentially misinterpreting the landmark ruling that defined women by biology earlier this week.’

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The Independent, 18th April 2025

Source: www.independent.co.uk