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‘The Ministry of Justice has released its long-anticipated consultation paper on family law and cohabitation reform. As a practitioner whose daily life is spent dealing with the fallout from broken relationships and disputed estates, my immediate reaction is enthusiastic welcome for the broad spirit of the proposed reform but tempered by anxiety driven by some of the detail.’

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Financial Remedies Journal, 9th June 2026

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‘The compensation principle set out in Miller; McFarlane is the logical next step in ending discrimination between different but equal contributions. Compensation is a vehicle to alleviate post-divorce disparity, to give both spouses an equal start on the road to independent living.’

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Financial Remedies Journal, 10th June 2026

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‘The independent monitoring board’s annual report of conditions across the prison estate of England and Wales is stark and unflinching.’

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The Guardian, 10th June 2026

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‘A woman has been jailed for killing her mother after deciding she “couldn’t go on” caring for her.’

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BBC News, 9th June 2026

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‘A train passenger has become the first person to be sentenced under a new harassment law after a prosecution brought by the British Transport Police (BTP).’

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The Guardian, 9th June 2026

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‘An electrician who stabbed his partner to death in a frenzied rage, then blew up their home in a gas explosion, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years.’

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The Independent, 9th June 2026

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‘The government’s most senior law officer has been asked to review the “unduly lenient” prison sentence handed to a rapist who evaded police for nearly two decades in one of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice.’

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The Guardian, 8th June 2026

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‘A recent ruling by the Court of Appeal in England and Wales can help brand owners understand how to impose contractual restrictions on retailers over the distribution of their products without falling foul of UK competition rules, experts in competition law have said.’

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OUT-LAW.com, 8th June 2026

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‘Recent public law cases concerning dualism––the operative divide between international and domestic jurisprudence––have prompted renewed debate about the constitutional role of judicial review in the United Kingdom. At first glance, decisions such as R (FDA) v Minister for Cabinet Office [2024] EWHC 1729 (Admin); and R (Al Haq) v Secretary of State for Business and Trade [2025] EWCA Civ 1433 appear to signal a retreat from the more dualism-sceptical trajectory associated with earlier authorities like R (Atamewan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 2727 (Admin), R (Galdikas) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWHC 942 (Admin), and R (KTT) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 2722 (Admin). Yet this interpretation is too hasty. What the recent case law reveals is not a straightforward re-entrenchment of orthodox dualism, but the consolidation of a more procedurally conservative judicial posture centred on coherence, justification, and institutional restraint.’

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UK Constitutional Law Association, 9th June 2026

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‘A report has found “widespread and concerning evidence” of bias and victim-blaming in the family courts – primarily disadvantaging women.’

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The Guardian, 9th June 2026

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‘Artificial intelligence-powered virtual legal assistants are set to be introduced across Crown Courts in the UK, the government has announced, in a bid to alleviate the mounting backlog of cases. Ministers assert that the new technology will significantly accelerate legal proceedings.’

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The Independent, 9th June 2026

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‘A former children’s home manager and “master manipulator” who abused youngsters in his care has been told he will not go to prison – as his female assistant was jailed for 25 years for helping his attacks.’

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BBC News, 8th June 2026

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‘Victims of child sexual abuse in England and Wales will be given help to remove online images of their abuse as part of a wider package of support to end the “prolonged suffering of survivors”.’

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The Guardian, 9th June 2026

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‘The Supreme Court has handed down a unanimous judgment in A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a devolution issue under paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 [2026] UKSC 16 (“A Reference”) and has overruled its previous decision in Cheshire West [2014] UKSC 19.’

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UK Human Rights Blog, 9th June 2026

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‘Commercial analysis: Unsuccessful appeal under section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 (AA 1996) arising out of ten separate arbitral awards concerning ten shipbuilding contracts for container vessels. The buyers contended that the yard’s obligation to provide refund guarantees within 120 days of novation was a condition of the contracts, so that breach entitled them to recover loss of bargain damages. The Commercial Court upheld the tribunal’s conclusion that the obligation was an innominate term. The buyers were entitled to cancel the contracts pursuant to the express contractual regime, but not to claim loss of bargain damages.’

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Gatehouse Chambers, 5th June 2026

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‘The UK government has been accused of dragging its feet over plans for the mandatory regulation of bailiffs amid concerns about harmful practices in an industry that collects more than £1bn a year from indebted Britons.’

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The Guardian, 8th June 2026

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‘Judges primarily decide cases, but they also make strategic decisions aimed at maintaining the constitutional authority of the judiciary as a whole. Doctrines, bundling, timing, and public engagement are among the means by which trust, arguably the most important foundation of judicial authority, is acquired and disbursed.’

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UK Constitutional Law Association, 8th June 2026

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‘The Court of Appeal decision in SGL 1 Ltd v FSV Freeholders Ltd is an important development for landlords, investors, developers and advisers dealing with residential leasehold property and rights of first refusal under Part I of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (LTA 1987).’

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Law Society's Gazette, 5th June 2026

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‘In 2021, I published a book entitled Religion and Marriage Law: The Need for Reform. Most of that book focused on the need to modernise the law on how to get married but the penultimate chapter focused on cohabitation rights. That chapter might be seen as an afterthought. But, as I pointed out in the introduction to that chapter, ‘it was in many ways the most important’ of the reform proposals I was advocating. The new Government consultation, A Fairer End to Relationships, is to be welcomed, therefore, since it includes proposals to give cohabitation rights on separation and death alongside modernising the law on financial remedies on divorce.’

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Law & Religion UK, 8th June 2026

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‘It is well-known that there is no general common law duty on public authorities to carry out a consultation before making a decision. However, such a duty may arise if certain conditions are met. The High Court has recently had an opportunity to consider, and clarify, the precise circumstances under which such a duty arises. The case is R (Freedom from Torture and the Helen Bamber Foundation) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2026] EWHC 1278 (Admin) (28 May 2026).’

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Administrative Court Blog, 5th June 2026

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