‘A “vile and sadistic” online groomer has been jailed for 20 years in a UK legal first for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl he encouraged to self-harm.’
The Guardian, 20th October 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Metropolitan Police says it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents to allow officers to “focus on matters that meet the threshold for criminal investigations”.’
BBC News, 20th October 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Private client group STEP is to lobby the government to bring the Non-Contentious Probate Rules (NCPR) in line with the Legal Services Act 2007 in the wake of the Mazur ruling.’
Legal Futures, 20th October 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Under the current UK immigration rules, if you have ever received a custodial sentence of 12 months or more, you will face a mandatory ban from the UK for life. This has been the position since December 2020 and has created a lot of challenges. While the rule has been in place for some time, with the roll out of the Electronic Travel Authorisation (‘ETA’) earlier this year, the problems this creates are showing themselves with increasing regularity. This is because the ETA specifically asks about historic criminality, something which most likely did not arise when non-visa nationals visited the UK before this.’
Kingsley Napley Immigration Law Blog, 16th October 2025
Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk
‘An independent inquiry into “repeated failures” at an NHS trust’s maternity units has been announced by Health Secretary Wes Streeting, following potentially avoidable harm to babies and mothers.’
BBC News, 20th October 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The ageing prison estate is in a dire condition after years of neglect, but the cost of outsourcing basic repairs is spiralling out of control, with shower upgrades in one prison set to cost taxpayers £7.8m.’
The Independent, 19th October 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has dismissed the Home Secretary’s alternative remedy argument against the High Court’s grant of permission for Palestine Action’s judicial review challenge against proscription to proceed, and granted the claimant permission to rely on two further grounds at the final hearing listed for 25 November 2025. The Court held that the claimant’s cross-appeal was brought out of time (which is itself an important practice point), but granted an extension of time on the particular facts of the case.’
Administrative Court Blog, 17th October 2025
‘Bereaved families and survivors of a pro-suicide forum have called for a public inquiry into the government’s failure to prevent harm linked to the online platform.’
The Guardian, 20th October 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after admitting sexually abusing 37 girls online.’
BBC News, 17th October 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘It will come to the surprise of many that the common law offence of blasphemy in the UK was only abolished in 2008. It has no place in a secular society such as ours. However attempts have been made to use the Public Order Act 1986 to introduce blasphemy by the back door, by criminalising religious hatred offences.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th October 2025
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The City regulator has called on banks and payment firms to bring in stricter controls protecting customers from romance fraud after a study showed a number of missed “red flags” that led to people losing huge sums of money.’
The Guardian, 17th October 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The government’s rejection of MPs’ call for an “urgent and comprehensive” review of the county court risks perpetuating a “dysfunctional” system, the justice select committee has warned.’
Legal Futures, 17th October 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales (DAC) this week published a report, Everyday Business: Addressing domestic abuse and continuing harm through a family court review and reporting mechanism by Mandy Burton and Rosemary Hunter, Loughborough University, on the DAC’s ‘monitoring mechanism’ of the way family courts deal with allegations of domestic abuse in cases about arrangements for children. The report’s title reflects the fact that domestic abuse is routinely a factor in child arrangements cases, in a system that was not designed and is not resourced to deal with this.’
Transparency Project, 16th October 2025
Source: transparencyproject.org.uk
‘A woman has been found guilty of murdering her five-year-old son at their family home.’
BBC News, 16th October 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Legal professional bodies representing 250,000 lawyers in the UK have issued a joint statement accusing politicians of “irresponsible and dangerous” language that they claim is putting lawyers at risk.’
Local Government Lawyer, 16th October 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Now-published government witness statements submitted to prosecutors in the China espionage case cast only limited light on what happened. In this post, I outline six key questions that remain to be answered by government ministers and the Crown Prosecution Service.’
Public Law for Everyone, 16th October 2025
Source: publiclawforeveryone.com
‘The concept of protective issuing is familiar to litigation lawyers. It involves issuing a claim without any (or without any full) pleaded case when some aspect of the pre-action process has not yet been completed, most frequently when a proposed claim is coming up against a limitation deadline. It is perhaps of especial importance to public lawyers, given the judicial review longstop of 3 months means that any proposed claim comes up against limitation very quickly. An important point to note, which public lawyers will be well-aware of, is that the 3-month period is a longstop; the statutory requirement is to act promptly.’
Administrative Court Blog, 16th October 2025
‘Nearly 500 companies have been fined by the government for failing to pay employees the legally mandated minimum wage.’
The Independent, 17th October 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A bereaved woman has said her fight to get a death certificate in Welsh following the loss of her husband had been frustrating, emotional and draining.’
BBC News, 16th October 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Law Society has updated its guidance on greetings in correspondence, observing that the historical use of “Dear Sirs” as a standard greeting in legal correspondence “originates from a time when the profession was predominantly male”.’
Local Government Lawyer, 16th October 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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