‘Whilst work is leading to improvement, London remains an “outlier” in terms of the time it takes to determine care proceedings and the number of hearings it takes to do so, with “too many” incidences of non-compliance with the Public Law Outline (PLO), the Family Presiding Judge for London has warned.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 7th October 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘Lord Wolfson’s advice was commissioned by the Conservative Party and is known as the Wolfson Report. It is important to note at the outset that, despite its title on the Party website, Lord Wolfson emphasises that this is “neither a policy paper nor a report. It is a legal analysis”, in other words, advice to the leader of the Conservative party. For reasons of economy in the following paragraphs I will refer to this 185 page document as a “report”.’

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UK Human Rights Blog, 7th October 2025

Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com

‘Robert Jenrick has hit out at “activist” judges, as he set out Conservative plans to hand ministers a bigger role in filling judicial vacancies.’

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BBC News, 6th October 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘A convicted paedophile who described himself as the “Kardashian of Cheshire” has been jailed for fraud after he used an elaborate luxury handbag scam to steal nearly £200,000.’

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The Guardian, 7th October 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘The Family Court has ruled that the court does not have substantive welfare jurisdiction in respect of a 1-year-old French national who was visiting the United Kingdom with her parents when she came to the attention of social services following a visit to the hospital.’

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Local government Lawyer, 6th October 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘In light of a High Court ruling that has caused shockwaves in the legal sector, Geoff Wild considers how councils should set themselves up to conduct litigation lawfully and ensure the person authorised to conduct legal proceedings on behalf of the council is legally qualified and that any non-lawyers are properly authorised.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 6th October 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘A criminal defence lawyer who was filmed by police advising the complainant in a domestic abuse case while acting for the person accused of headbutting her has been suspended from practice.’

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Legal Futures, 7th October 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘In May 2025 we published our public consultation which sought views on how to improve the Bar’s approach to the handling of first-tier complaints – that is, complaints handled directly by barristers or chambers, rather than the Legal Ombudsman. The proposals reflected the Legal Services Board’s (LSB) new statutory requirements and guidance on handling complaints. We are grateful to everyone who responded, and we have taken those views on board in finalising our proposed rule changes.’

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Bar Standards Board, 6th October 2025

Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

‘In this paper he sets out an exhaustive examination of the relationship between the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and UK law, specifically focusing on areas where the ECHR constrains the government’s ability to enact domestic policies. This report could be pivotal in shaping the party’s commitment to leave the ECHR, as it concludes that such a move is necessary to fulfil a range of key policy priorities.’

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UK Human Rights Blog, 7th October 2025

Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com

‘A former Serious Fraud Office investigator who said he had blown the whistle on the organisation over the approach of raising concerns about investigation matters has had his employment tribunal claim dismissed unanimously.’

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Law Society Gazette, 6th October 2025

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘A barrister granted compassionate leeway by a judge on the grounds she was looking after her sick mother was in fact appearing in a separate simultaneous murder trial, a bar tribunal found today.’

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Law Society Gazette, 6th October 2025

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘UK regulators have shut down some claims companies and ordered others to stop taking on clients as they step up a crackdown on firms making misleading statements about car finance compensation.’

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The Guardian, 6th October 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘In what the Metropolitan Police says is the UK’s largest ever operation against phone thefts, 18 suspects have been arrested and more than 2,000 stolen devices discovered.’

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BBC News, 6th October 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Stephen Lawrence’s father says one of his son’s murderers should name the other killers before he can be judged to be safe for release from prison.’

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BBC News, 7th October 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘The Public Office (Accountability) Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on 16 September 2025. It gives effect to the Labour Party’s 2024 Manifesto commitment to introduce a ‘Hillsborough Law’ which will ‘place a legal duty of candour on public servants and authorities and provide legal aid for victims of disasters or state-related deaths’. As the Government’s ‘Duty of Candour Factsheet’, produced to supplement the Bill, explains, the Bill represents ‘a powerful new package of measures to address these failings and others seen at Grenfell Tower, in the infected blood and Horizon scandals – and in too many other examples over too many years’.’

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UK Constitutional Law Association, 6th October 2025

Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org

‘The government recently announced it will begin deporting foreign national offenders who are given a custodial sentence as soon as possible after they are convicted. Once deported, it will be up to the receiving country to determine if the offender serves any prison time. This development is the logical end of the repeated expansion of this policy in recent years.’

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EIN Blog, 3rd October 2025

Source: www.ein.org.uk

‘In O’Connell, Christopher Kennedy KC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, dismissed claims in negligence and under the Animals Act 1971 brought by a former gunner in the Royal Horse Artillery. He also found that the claim was fundamentally dishonest.’

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1 QMLR, 3rd October 2025

Source: 1corqmlr.com

‘A litigant in person (LiP) who was “extremely abusive” to a district judge in a family case and made “direct threats of physical violence” has been jailed for four months for contempt in the face of the court.’

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Legal Futures, 2nd October 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘Civil liberty groups have expressed concern over government plans to hand police greater powers to restrict protests as organisers of mass demonstrations against the banning of Palestine Action pledged a “major escalation” of their campaign.’

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The Guardian, 5th October 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com