‘A Labrador-loving parish councillor has lost a four-year court fight after his neighbour started tearing out the “dog-proof fence” around his £1.2m country home during a boundary row.’
The Independent, 15th July 2026
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Two young members of a criminal hacking group who carried out a cyber attack on Transport for London (TfL) that cost the organisation millions of pounds are facing jail.’
The Independent, 15th July 2026
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A new treaty governing the future of Gibraltar has been formally signed by the UK and the European Union, aiming to alleviate border crossing complexities and resolve long-standing uncertainty regarding [the UK’s] relationship with Spain.’
The Independent, 14th July 2026
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Home Office is set to ignore a high court ruling and continue sending asylum seekers to France without looking into claims they have been trafficked, which last week was found to be unlawful.’
The Guardian, 14th July 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man has been jailed for life after being found guilty of the rape and murder of his estranged wife and staging a scene to make her death look like suicide.’
BBC News, 14th July 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Water regulator Ofwat said this follows the conclusion of three investigations into the company’s repeated failures.’
BBC News, 14th July 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Following the General Synod decision in February 2020, new provisions on carbon reduction were introduced under the Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2022 (“the new provisions”) came into force 1 July 2022. This is the sixth in the series of posts which update the list of determinations under the revised provisions.’
Law & Religion UK, 13th July 2026
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘Reading between the lines of Richard Lloyd’s independent review of the LSB published yesterday – an impressively rapid achievement, as these things go, given the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) only formally commissioned him in February – I sense the ‘stakeholders’ he spoke to rather enjoyed putting the boot in.’
Legal Futures, 14th July 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The 2026 judgments of Cusworth J reported as LP v MP [2025] EWFC 473 and Wei Lyn Loh and Ardal Loh-Granger [2025] EWFC 483 have dusted off s 25(2)(g) Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. Limited to use in only the most serious instances, this factor should be consigned to the history books rather than being hailed as a path to victim recompense.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 13th July 2026
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
‘Published on Thursday (9 July), the new code replaces the 2020 Code and takes into account the rise of artificial intelligence, legislative changes, and current resource constraints affecting the public sector.’
Local Government Lawyer, 13th July 2026
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Church of England is facing a legal challenge over Project Spire, its £100m plan to further reparative justice for historical links to enslavement, as staff come under “vile abuse” from critics.’
The Guardian, 13th July 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Under the new rules from November 30, brought in under Awaab’s Law, social housing tenants will have strengthened rights to have serious problems addressed faster.’
The Independent, 13th July 2026
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The prime minister announced his government would designate the branch of the Iranian military under a new National Security Act, enabling law enforcement to take action against anyone deemed to be providing it with support.’
The Guardian, 13th July 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A university worker has been awarded over £51,000 in a disability discrimination case after her employer failed to account for her short-term memory issues when she misgendered a transgender colleague.’
The Independent, 13th July 2026
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A High Court injunction preventing the unauthorised placement of flags on highway infrastructure secured by Oxfordshire County Council has been made permanent.’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th July 2026
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has unanimously allowed an appeal by the Information Commissioner and the Health and Safety Executive, ruling that the date for determining whether environmental information is held by a public authority under regulation 12(4)(a) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 is the date the authority receives the request, not the date of any subsequent internal review decision under regulation 11.’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th July 2026
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The independent review of the Legal Services Board, conducted by Richard Lloyd and published by the Ministry of Justice, was published on 13 July 2026.’
Legal Services Board, 13th July 2026
Source: legalservicesboard.org.uk
‘The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) put hallucinated cases produced by artificial intelligence (AI) before the High Court in an extradition appeal, it has admitted.’
Legal Futures, 10th July 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The initiative, announced by the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Education, will see information shared between prisons, police forces and local authorities to help identify children whose parent has entered custody. The pilot is intended to address long-standing concerns that many of these children remain “hidden” from public services and therefore miss out on support.’
Family Law, 13th July 2026
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Under the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 the government gave legal recognition to decapod crustaceans as sentient beings. The Animal Law Foundation has now written to the Welsh Government to advise on what this means for the killing of crabs and lobsters in Wales.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 12th July 2026
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
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