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‘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

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‘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

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘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

‘The government has confirmed that the Crime and Policing Bill will contain provisions removing the three-year time limit for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse to bring personal injury claims. The new clause is at section 82 of the current draft bill. The bill was tabled for report stage on 17 and 18 June and is now at the committee stage in the House of Lords.’

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Law Society's Gazette, 3rd November 2025

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘Porn featuring strangulation or suffocation – often referred to as “choking” – is due to be criminalised, with a legal requirement placed on tech platforms to prevent UK users from seeing such material.’

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The Guardian, 3rd November 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘A junior solicitor at a leading City law firm who lied about his academic achievements on a pupillage application when trying to move to the Bar has been struck off.’

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Legal Futures, 4th November 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘Three Just Stop Oil activists who sprayed Stonehenge with orange powder have been cleared of causing a public nuisance.’

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BBC News, 31st October 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Both human rights law and discrimination law share a concern to ensure respect for the dignity and autonomy of individuals. Yet they pursue those shared values on parallel tracks through separate pieces of legislation – the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) and the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010). At the core of discrimination law is a comparison between the treatment of groups. The question is whether an individual suffered a disadvantage in comparison to others because of membership of a particular group. In contrast, human rights law asks whether there was an unjustifiable interference with an especially important protected interest of an individual. Because of this different focus and technique, they may reach opposite results.’

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UK Labour Law Blog, 31st October 2025

Source: uklabourlawblog.com

‘A man who threatened to kill the prime minister and sent a flurry of “menacing” messages to a Labour MP has been jailed for 23 months.’

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The Guardian, 31st October 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘A man has been convicted of stabbing a female police officer in the face with intent in an attack that was described as something “from a Scream film”.’

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BBC News, 1st November 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘A 39-year-old man has been jailed for three years after “ugly” disorder broke out when his arrest following a “paedophile sting” was streamed live on Facebook.’

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The Independent, 31st October 2025

Source: www.independent.co.uk

‘A ruling by the UK’s Supreme Court that parking charges at NHS facilities are subject to VAT will have a significant impact on up to £100 million in disputed charges, an expert has warned.’

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OUT-LAW.com, 31st October 2025

Source: www.pinsentmasons.com

‘A man who murdered his pregnant girlfriend after being released from prison on licence has been jailed for 42 years.’

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The Guardian, 31st October 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘An ex-Army sergeant major has been jailed for six months for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old soldier who later took her own life.’

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BBC News, 31st October 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Ministers may have breached privacy laws when they suspended the child benefit of thousands of families on the basis of flawed Home Office information, legal experts have said.’

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The Guardian, 1st November 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com