‘It would be disproportionate and a “waste of a high quality, valuable resource” to force the owner of a new office building in Central London to demolish substantial parts of that building to remedy the building’s interference with ‘rights to light’ enjoyed by the owners of two neighbouring properties, the High Court in England and Wales has ruled.’

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OUT-LAW.com, 11th July 2025

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‘The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published new guidance for social care commissioners in Wales on compliance with the Public Sector Equality Duty, after evidence provided by the watchdog’s Wales Committee showed “alarming patterns” of inequality affecting those who need care and those who provide it.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 15th July 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘The President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal has rejected a local authority’s appeal after an employment judge refused to recuse herself from a case management hearing in an equal pay multiple.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 14th July 2025

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‘The London Borough of Hounslow has agreed – following the intervention of its Leader – to implement a recommendation by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman that it offer a homeless mother the next suitable two-bedroom property that became available.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 14th July 2025

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‘The two men who felled the tree at Sycamore Gap in what prosecutors called a “moronic mission” are to be sentenced on Tuesday [15th July].’

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The Independent, 15th July 2025

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‘A gay man has been paid compensation from a Church of England parish after he was subjected to an “exorcism” to purge him of his homosexuality, it has been reported.’

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The Guardian, 15th July 2025

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‘Some of the country’s wealthy landowners and two charities who own the freehold leases of thousands of properties – predominately flats – argue that legislation brought in by the last Conservative government contravenes their human rights.’

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BBC News, 15th July 2025

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‘A senior coroner’s officer who first reviewed the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester hospital for Cheshire police in 2017 now believes Lucy Letby has suffered a miscarriage of justice.’

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The Guardian, 14th July 2025

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‘A years-long family court case ended in January 2022 when their four children were permanently placed into care.’

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BBC News, 14th July 2025

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‘Two parents have been found guilty of the manslaughter of their newborn daughter, who died after they took her to live in a tent in freezing wintry conditions to evade social services.’

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The Guardian, 14th July 2025

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‘At an earlier hearing, the 41-year-old from Butetown in Cardiff denied harassing Rebecca Wallis, now known as Rebecca Lovell, between 14 February and 21 March.’

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BBC News, 14th July 2025

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‘A new scheme to detect people who are obsessed with violence before they kill, such as the Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana, should be considered by the government, an official report will say.’

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The Guardian, 14th July 2025

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‘Will Orr-Ewing and Pete Montgomery wrote to the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, on Friday warning that they would seek a judicial review. They argue that current guidance, which allows headteachers to decide how smartphones are used, is unlawful and unsafe for children.’

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The Guardian, 13th July 2025

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‘After years of campaigning and political debate, tech platforms will – within weeks – be legally obliged to stop kids seeing harmful content online, including pornography and material encouraging self-harm. They’ll be expected to check users’ ages, and if they don’t, they could be punished with heavy fines.’

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BBC News, 12th July 2025

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‘More than 2,500 inmates are still trapped under the outlawed jail terms, which have been described by the UN as “psychological torture”. They were abolished in 2012, but not retrospectively, leaving those already jailed incarcerated indefinitely.’

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The Independent, 13th July 2025

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‘The legal challenge argues there was an overreach by the commissioners, in breach of the Local Government Act, when they refused to allow three separate applications by elected council members to “call in” a cabinet decision to close four day centres for further scrutiny.’

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The Guardian, 12th July 2025

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‘A former NHS mental health nurse and priest has been jailed for raping a woman he met on a dating app, and is being investigated over further alleged sexual offending.’

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The Independent, 12th July 2025

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‘This article makes a case for the introduction of a new UK Accessibility Act to supplement existing equality law and outlines key ingredients to be included in such legislation. Such a reform would fulfil commitments under international human rights law, align with purported cross-government prioritization of accessibility, establish a more joined-up and effective regulatory structure and, most importantly, hasten progress toward a barrier-free society in which disabled people and others are enabled to learn, work, move and live as equals. The article has three main sections. The first elaborates on the accessibility obligations set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It also discusses recent legislative responses to these international human rights requirements in the European Union (the European Accessibility Act) and Canada (the Accessible Canada Act). The second section maps out the various accessibility interventions of the Equality Act 2010 and exposes the limits of the current approach, which is patchy, splintered and heavily dependent on expensive and high-risk litigation by individuals. The third section draws on the examples of Canadian and EU legislation to consider what should be included in a new UK Accessibility Act.’

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Current Legal Problems, 7th July 2025

Source: doi.org

‘One of the oddities of British labour law, especially when compared with its continental and common law cousins, is that collective agreements concluded as a result of the collective bargaining process between an employer and a trade union have no necessary legal effect whether vis-à-vis the employer and the union or vis-à-vis the employer and an individual employee. On the former relationship—which is sometimes referred to the ‘contractual dimension’ of collective agreements—the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, s 179, conclusively presumes that such agreements were not intended by the parties to take effect as legally enforceable contracts unless the agreement is in writing and contains a provision which states that the parties intend that the agreement shall be a legally enforceable contract. As for the latter—which can be referred to as the ‘normative dimension’ of collective agreements, whereby the ‘norms’ in the collective agreement ‘are applied to the individual employment relationship’—ordinarily, for a collective agreement to have any legal effect, it must be incorporated into an individual’s contract of employment and there is no automatic rule to this effect.’

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Industrial Law Journal, 9th July 2025

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