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‘The High Court has refused a local authority’s application for the extension of a Deprivation of Liberty order in relation to a 16-year-old young offender, finding that the management of the young person by the Youth Offender Team is “sufficient to exclude any reasonable cause for belief that [he] might suffer significant harm.”’

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Local Government Lawyer, 2nd September 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘Under-16s in England will be banned from buying energy drinks such as Red Bull and Monster because they fuel obesity, cause sleep problems and leave them unable to concentrate.’

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The Guardian, 2nd September 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘The Legal Ombudsman (LeO) should introduce a nominal complaint fee of £50 to “weed out those whom one might describe as ‘chancers’”, Birmingham Law Society has proposed.’

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Legal Futures, 3rd September 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘In May 2025, the government announced it was considering the roll-out of voluntary chemical castration for sex offenders and also looking at whether this could be made mandatory.’

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BBC News, 3rd September 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘This case concerns prisoners’ right to access rehabilitation courses under Article 5 ECHR. In short, European and domestic case law has established that in some circumstances, where a prisoner is serving a sentence which has a length determined by their degree of rehabilitation, providing no effective access to rehabilitation opportunities would mean they would be arbitrarily detained. This makes intuitive sense: how can the state detain an individual, subject to a single condition of release, but provide no opportunity for a prisoner to demonstrate that this condition has been satisfied?’

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Administrative Court Blog, 2nd September 2025

Source: administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com

‘The government is changing the law to stop the Sentencing Council issuing new guidelines to courts in England and Wales without the explicit approval of the justice secretary.’

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BBC News, 2nd September 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘The government is temporarily suspending new applications for a scheme allowing refugees to bring their family members to the UK.’

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BBC News, 1st September 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘The family of a man whose body was found in a Hull funeral home after he was supposed to have been cremated have said it is “easier to open a funeral directors than it is a sandwich shop”, as they urged the government to regulate the industry.’

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The Guardian, 29th August 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘A former vicar has been jailed after admitting causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) by carrying out an extreme body modification with scissors.’

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BBC News, 1st September 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Six out of 10 lawyers are using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for work purposes and most of the rest plan to use it, new research has found.’

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Legal Futures, 2nd September 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘New changes to prosecution guidance in England and Wales will put further emphasis on companies to ensure they carry out due diligence to avoid liability for corporate crime, an expert has warned.’

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OUT-LAW.com, 1st September 2025

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‘A man who kicked a police officer while protesting outside a hotel housing asylum seekers has been given a suspended jail sentence.’

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BBC News, 1st September 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘The probation watchdog chief for England and Wales has urged Sir Keir Starmer to finally put an end to the scandal of indefinite jail terms, warning prisoners are “trapped in the system”.’

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The Independent, 31st August 2025

Source: www.independent.co.uk

‘Some 24 lawyers including leading children law and Court of Protection specialists have been appointed Deputy High Court judges, for a single fixed six-year term.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 1st September 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘The independent anti-slavery commissioner has launched an investigation into so-called pimping websites amid concern at the level of exploitation of trafficked and vulnerable women on those platforms.’

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The Guardian, 30th August 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘A drug dealer has been found guilty of murdering a former prison officer in an “act of revenge” four years after he seized a mobile phone from his jail cell.’

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BBC News, 29th August 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Yvette Cooper could face legal action over the decision to keep an asylum seeker with schizophrenia in prison.’

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The Guardian, 31st August 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘On 18 August 2025, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) published their Joint SFO-CPS Corporate Prosecution Guidance, intended for prosecutors who will make decisions about whether or not to prosecute a corporation.’

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Kingsley Napley Criminal Law Blog, 29th August 2025

Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk

‘In a recent post, we covered the High Court’s headline-making decision in Epping Forest District Council v Somani Hotels Limited [2025] EWHC 2183 (KB) to grant an injunction preventing the Bell Hotel in Epping from being used to house Asylum Seekers.’

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UK Human Rights Blog, 29th August 2025

Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com

“A prolific, calculated sex offender” has admitted drugging and raping a woman four times, as well as sexual offences against five other women.

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BBC News, 29th August 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk