‘The Supreme Court has handed down a judgment which holds that the Part-time Workers Regulations 2000 prohibit discrimination where the worker’s part-time status is an effective cause, even if not the sole cause, of the less favourable treatment.’
Blackstone Chambers, 13th August 2026
Source: www.blackstonechambers.com
‘In the case of Re C and D (Refusal to Hold a Fact-Finding Hearing) [2026] EWFC 155, Mrs. Justice Knowles refused the application of a local authority in care proceedings to hold a separate fact-finding hearing. The principal issue before the court was whether a fact-finding hearing was necessary and proportionate. Naturally, the case was very fact specific, but the court provided a useful and succinct summary of the applicable principles when determining this issue.’
Becket Chambers, 13th August 2026
Source: becket-chambers.co.uk
‘The question of whether property that is matrimonial property has as a consequence to be shared equally has become one of the main areas of debate in the first instance decisions over the last year.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 27th August 2026
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
‘In financial remedy cases involving disputed third-party interests, a question often arises as to whether an FDR should take place before or after a contested preliminary issue hearing. These intervenor cases often involve a family member who either claims to have a beneficial interest in a property registered in the legal name of one of the spouses, or who is the legal owner of a property which is said to be partially or wholly beneficially owned by one of the spouses. In either case the family member may be joined to the proceedings to protect their property interests. There appears to be a view shared by legal professionals that the number of these ‘bank of Mum and Dad’ type cases are on the rise.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 1st September 2026
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
‘The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has pledged £1.5m a year to help fund up to 100 additional pupillages annually in criminal law.’
Legal Futures, 1st September 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A trainee solicitor who sent unwanted explicit messages and an image to a woman he was representing at court has been jailed.’
Legal Futures, 1st September 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has thrown out data protection claims against national firm DWF after the pleaded case was found to have changed at the last minute without permission.’
Law Society Gazette, 28th August 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The government’s £34m funding plan to bolster the barrister workforce within the criminal legal aid sector will benefit men more than women and undermine the government’s mission to tackle violence against women and girls, representative groups have warned.’
Law Society Gazette, 28th August 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Almost half of all terrorism arrests in Great Britain since the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers in 2001 have come in the past year, official data shows.’
The Guardian, 1st September 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The government has proclaimed the Employment Rights Act 2025 as the biggest upgrade of workers’ rights for a generation.Footnote1 That is no exaggeration. The Act brings significant benefits for working people. But the Act does not address various aspects of industrial relations which were originally planned by the Labour Party and which might have had a profound impact on the inherent imbalance of power which so marks the UK workplace.’
King's Law Journal, 25th August 2026
Source: www.tandfonline.com
‘The Court of Appeal has thrown out a bid to appeal a ruling that cleared defendant law firm DWF of data protection breaches.’
Legal Futures, 28th August 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Investigators specialising in rape and sex offences will be introduced to every police force in England and Wales by the end of 2027, the government has said.’
BBC News, 27th August 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Reform Party MP Danny Kruger is concerned. The UK, he says, has ‘a bloated, paralysed centre of government and a mutinous bureaucracy’; and that ‘Real power is held not by the elected government but by the permanent Civil Service’. So he has set out some proposed changes for the civil service should Reform become the government. These proposals prompt us to ask: what is the civil service for?’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 27th August 2026
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Strange are the ways in which AI can escape and do harm; equally strange are the curious mechanisms whereby water can escape and do harm.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th August 2026
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The family of a woman killed after a high-speed race through residential streets says it is a “relief” the government was considering changing the law around defendants who are considered unfit to stand trial.’
BBC News, 27th August 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A chemistry teacher has been found guilty of indecently assaulting two teenage pupils at an all-boys school in the late 1980s.’
The Guardian, 27th August 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A KC has issued a plea to housing law specialists for help continuing a popular blog set up by solicitor Giles Peaker, who died earlier this year. Nearly Legal, which Peaker set up in 2006, was a go-to resource for lawyers, judges, academics and the public.’
Law Society Gazette, 27th August 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Legal Ombudsman has given its strongest indication yet that it will publish case decisions in full – but not until next year at the earliest.’
Law Society Gazette, 27th August 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A local authority whose offer was well beaten in a compensation dispute over a compulsory purchase order has been ordered to pay indemnity costs.’
Law Society Gazette, 26th August 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘In Meerna Ali Ghuloom Faraj v Sohail Sultan Ahmad & Anor [2026] EWCA Civ 962, the Court of Appeal allowed both spouses’ appeals and the bank’s appeal, concluding that the trial judge’s factual findings could not stand and ordering a retrial.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 26th August 2026
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
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