‘In January 2025, the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced a plan to fund work on five inquiries to explore allegations into failures by local services and police forces to adequately address child sexual exploitation and other sexual abuse. These were described as “victim-centred locally-led inquiries”, to be based on the work done by the Telford Inquiry chaired by Tom Crowther KC, and implemented at Oldham Council and four other pilot areas. in mid-March 2025, the Government advised that an update would be coming soon and likely pre-Easter.’

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Doughty Street Chambers, 25th March 2025

Source: insights.doughtystreet.co.uk

‘2025 is likely to see a groundswell of systemic challenges on a range of social and economic issues affecting the education sector. If the last four years of case law is anything to go by, that may be an understatement.’

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3PB, 12th March 2025

Source: www.3pb.co.uk

‘The Office for Students (OfS) has imposed potentially its largest ever fine of £585,000 on the University of Sussex, citing failures in its governance and breaches of its duties relating to freedom of speech. This eye-catching penalty follows the university’s handling of events surrounding Professor Kathleen Stock in 2021, and the OfS’s investigation concluded that Sussex failed to take adequate steps to secure free expression.’

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Garden Court Chambers, 27th March 2025

Source: gardencourtchambers.co.uk

‘Following a three-day trial, Hugh Sims KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge (“the Judge”) handed down judgment in Packer v Packer [2025] EWHC 461 (Ch) (“the Judgment”). Ollie Murrell, instructed by Bailhache Law, acted for the successful Claimant.’

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Guildhall Chambers, 20th March 2025

Source: www.guildhallchambers.co.uk

‘On 19th March 2025, a panel of seven Supreme Court justices gave their decision in an appeal concerning whether an important change to the equitable principles about the duties and liabilities of fiduciaries should be made. A panel of seven justices was assembled because the Supreme Court was asked to depart from two longstanding decisions of the House of Lords: Regal (Hastings) Ltd v Gulliver [1967] 2 AC 134 and Boardman v Phipps [1967] 2 AC 46.’

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Hailsham Chambers, 21st March 2025

Source: www.hailshamchambers.com

‘Shabana Mahmood’s intervention to halt new guidelines on sentencing is “dangerous” and a “deliberate step backwards”, according to senior legal figures and prison campaigners.’

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The Guardian, 1st April 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘A scheme that saw victims of crime in Greater Manchester get to go to criminals’ parole hearings is to be rolled out across England and Wales.’

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BBC News, 1st April 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Privacy campaigners have warned that voters’ personal data could be used to target them with political messaging under new laws.’

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The Guardian, 1st April 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘A man who repeatedly punched a police officer in the face and head, fracturing his cheekbone and breaking his nose, has been jailed.’

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BBC News, 1st April 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Hale LJ opined in Hale v Tanner, that applications for committal within a family law context raise unique considerations (for example, children).[1] The procedure is complex and must be followed meticulously as the application will fail if it is not. This is because the consequences of the application succeeding are serious – a person’s liberty is at stake.’

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St Philips Barristers, 25th March 2025

Source: st-philips.com

‘In this article Nicole Hilton considers the recent Court of Appeal case Khan v D’Aubigny [2025] EWCA Civ 11. The question before the Court was whether Section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (the ‘1978 Act’) applied to the requirements under the Housing Act 1988 and corresponding Regulations for the provision of an Energy Performance Certificate (‘EPC’), Gas Safety Certificate (‘GSC’), and How to Rent Guide.’

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St John's Chambers, 11th March 2025

Source: www.stjohnschambers.co.uk

‘For those few interested in the procedural niceties surrounding extradition orders made by the Secretary of State under Part 2 of the Extradition Act 2003, last Wednesday’s judgment in Lloyd v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 656 (Admin) leaves two questions unanswered:
1. What impact do mistakes on the face of an order have on its presumptive validity?
2. Does the Secretary of State for the Home Department (“SSHD”) have a power to amend, withdraw or replace an extradition order, once made?’

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2 Hare Court, 24th March 2025

Source: www.2harecourt.com

‘Innovation sandboxes, mandatory regulation of paralegals and new sources of funding – like interest on client accounts – are among the ideas put forward today by a report on the role of regulation to improve access to justice.’

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Legal Futures, 1st April 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘In a recent fatal clinical negligence case that I was involved in, the agreed medical position was that the Deceased would have been unlikely to survive for more than a month after the negligent event that brought about their death.’

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Ropewalk Chambers, 25th February 2025

Source: ropewalk.co.uk

‘The passage into law of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023) marks the first time that Parliament has made significant changes to the common law principles of corporate criminal liability. First, for fault-based crimes, the ECCTA 2023 extends the common law practice of identifying a company with the criminal acts of its directors. By virtue of section 196 of the Act, a company may now also be identified with fault-based criminal acts engaged in by its ‘senior managers’ below directorial level. Secondly, the ECCTA 2023 creates a new corporate offence of failing to prevent fraud, although this may be committed only by so-called ‘large organisations’. I argue that the first of these reforms was not properly thought through, and that it should in any event have been made largely redundant by giving wider scope to the second of these reforms. An opportunity was missed in the ECCTA 2023 to make a failure-to-prevent serious crime a more generally applicable principle of corporate criminal liability.’

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Legal Studies, 7th February 2025

Source: www.cambridge.org

‘In this article, Alex Forzani analyses the recent decision in Persons Identified in Schedule 1 v Standard Chartered plc [2025] EWHC 698 (Ch).’

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4 New Square, 26th March 2025

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‘All eyes are on the Supreme Court this morning as it begins a three-day hearing on motor finance commissions that could open up or close down a major new source of legal work.’

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Legal Futures, 1st April 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘Tenants of two buildings in east London have been awarded a six-figure sum in rent repayments by a tribunal after challenging a billionaire described by a judge as a “rogue landlord”.’

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The Guardian, 31st March 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘It has been said that the peculiarities of the fitness to plead regime can cause practitioners to question their own sanity. This article seeks to summarise the fundamentals.’

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25 Bedford Row, 20th March 2025

Source: www.25bedfordrow.com

‘Both the Law Society and Bar Council have criticised their regulatory arms over the Legal Services Board’s assessment that their performance was inadequate and needed urgent improvement.’

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Legal Futures, 1st April 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk