‘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

‘Grandparents who murdered their two-year-old grandson had a “campaign to break” him and did not like it when he stood up for himself, a judge has said as he jailed them for life.’

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BBC News, 3rd October 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘The Legal Services Board is convening a meeting of the frontline regulators next week to discuss the continuing fall-out from the Mazur ruling, Legal Futures can reveal.’

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Legal Futures, 3rd October 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘A father who murdered his two-week-old baby son on a neonatal ward has been jailed for life.’

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BBC News, 3rd October 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Children are extremely vulnerable yet often treated as adults, measured by adult-centric conceptualisations of ‘guilt’ and expected to decide on their own culpability for law infringement. In addition, system agents incentivise children to admit guilt by offering contingent support or implying further consequences for refusal, resulting in a youth justice system that exacerbates this by requiring admissions of guilt throughout the process. We explore difficulties of applying adult-centric understandings of ‘guilt’ to children through our typology of guilt, which examines responses children might give to questions of guilt and asks whether applying adult-centric notions of guilt erodes ‘Child First’ youth justice.’

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Youth Justice, 1st October 2025

Source: journals.sagepub.com

‘What progress have bills announced in the 2024 King’s Speech made in the current Parliament?’

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House of Commons Library, 2nd October 2025

Source: commonslibrary.parliament.uk