‘In this episode, Lucy McCann is joined by Zelda Perkins, CEO of Can’t Buy My Silence UK and former PA to Harvey Weinstein, who broke her NDA and has since campaigned against the use of NDAs to silence workers speaking out against abuse, and Emma Darlow Stearn, a barrister practising from Cloisters Chambers, who specialises in employment and discrimination law and, in her previous role as Senior Legal Adviser for whistleblowing charity Protect, collaborated with Zelda to make the law on NDAs more accessible.’

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Law Pod UK, 22nd September 2025

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‘A high court judge has ruled that a vulnerable autistic man should not be extradited to the US on cybercrime charges, quashing a Home Office decision.’

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The Guardian, 19th September 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘An inspector has dismissed an appeal against an enforcement notice in relation to a Gypsy/Traveller caravan site despite there being no five-year supply of deliverable pitches. Claire Nevin explains why.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 18th September 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘Following Walker v Chelmsford City Council [2020] EWHC 635 (Admin), the present position is that the s.108(4)(j) power under the Environment Act 1995 does not entitle an authorised person to require a person to answer written questions and provide written answers. Under the power is s.108(4)(j), the questions must be asked orally whilst in-person and on the premises.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 18th September 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘Dr Charlotte Proudman applied for £353,017, arguing that she should be awarded costs on an indemnity basis as the charges against her were “so doomed to fail that they should never have been proceeded with”. She claimed her prosecution was “the equivalent of a malicious prosecution” and that she was “improperly pursued and harassed” by the Bar Standards Board “in a way that a man would not have been” had he been the author of the tweets that gave rise to her prosecution.’

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Law Society Gazette, 18th September 2025

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘The High Court in London has found in favour of a hotel room company in its challenge to a decision by His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to reject evidence it had supplied to back up its input tax deduction claims.’

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OUT-LAW.com, 18th September 2025

Source: www.pinsentmasons.com

‘Nearly a quarter (24%) of doctors found guilty of sexual misconduct were handed suspensions but allowed to continue working in medicine, according to analysis of fitness to practice tribunals by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS). This is despite the regulator, the General Medical Council (GMC), recommending they be struck off the medical register.’

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The Guardian, 18th September 2025

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‘When a supreme court judge is a household name, it’s either because they’re very outspoken on a hot topic, or because you’re living in choppy times, and there are so few grownups left among the legislators that the law has to put its hoof down.’

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The Guardian, 18th September 2025

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‘On 1 September, then home secretary Yvette Cooper announced the suspension of new applications under the refugee family reunion (RFR) route. This was the dedicated category for those granted refugee or humanitarian protection in the UK to be joined by their partner and children, and imposed relatively few restrictions. This closure will carry significant legal and humanitarian consequences.’

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Law Society's Gazette, 18th September 2025

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘The UK’s recent and forthcoming immigration reforms represent a significant shift in policy, aiming to balance the country’s economic needs with the objective of developing a strong domestic workforce. While these changes are designed to reduce reliance on overseas labour and encourage investment in local talent, they also introduce a range of considerations for businesses and other sectors.’

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EIN Blog, 17th September 2025

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‘Protests and riots occurred across eight days during the summer of 2024 in the UK. Throughout this time, the police shared countless messages with users via the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). This paper sheds light on how users responded to this content. Using a rigorous research strategy, we studied user comments on 124 police threads. Research findings illustrate that users had overwhelmingly right-wing political, social, and cultural views, describing protestors and rioters as largely peaceful ordinary British citizens, while criticising the police for so-called two-tier policing and tyranny. This is significant because it shows that users who believed that the police no longer served their interests instead identified with the protestors and rioters. For the police, our research findings highlight the need to remain on X, and to both challenge and combat hate speech.’

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Policing and Society, 16th September 2025

Source: www.tandfonline.com

‘The Windrush compensation scheme must improve after it failed to consider a dying woman’s claim properly and wrongly refused to compensate her husband for the loss of his pension, an ombudsman has said.’

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The Guardian, 18th September 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘In the UK and Commonwealth, an oath of allegiance is a promise to be loyal to the monarch, their heirs and successors. Also known as ‘swearing in’, it is pledged in various contexts, including at the beginning of a Parliament and when government ministers assume office. The allegiance is pledged to the monarch as the personification of the Crown – the symbol of British state authority.’

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UK Constitutional Law Association, 17th September 2025

Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org

‘The UK’s approach to counter terrorism preparedness has taken a significant step forward with the passing of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 (Martyn’s Law).’

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Kingsley Napley Regulatory Blog, 12th September 2025

Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk

‘The Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) has referred a barrister to the Bar Standards Board for presenting a bogus court decision generated using the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 18th September 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘Edward Sawyer of Wilberforce Chambers considers a recent determination on the British Steel Pension Scheme, in which the PO set out his general approach to claims by victims of pension transfer scams for due diligence failures by the transferor scheme trustees.’

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Pensions Barrister, 18th September 2025

Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com

‘The Law Commission has recommended a set of reforms to disabled children’s social care law, after acknowledging that elements are “out of date” and “potentially unfair”.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 17th September 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘A woman with learning difficulties has capacity to engage in sex and to marry, the Court of Protection has ruled.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 18th September 2025

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‘In a recently completed paper, Philip Murray and I develop a defence of what we term the classical account of administrative law. The question with which we are centrally concerned is whether (as the classical account holds) unlawful administrative acts are void ab initio, such that they can be treated without more as if they had never been committed, or merely voidable, meaning that they are valid and effective unless and until set aside by a competent court. While that question might seem highly technical — and, in one sense, it is — it is also a question that goes to the doctrinal and conceptual heart of administrative law, and which has profound practical and constitutional implications. The idea that unlawful acts should be treated as merely voidable — or that courts should be able to decide whether they are void or voidable — may be superficially attractive because it appears to replace conceptual rigidity with remedial flexibility. But in the article, we argue that the flip side of that coin is one that must not be ignored, and that abandoning the classical account is ultimately incompatible with upholding the rule of law.’

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Public Law for Everyone, 16th September 2025

Source: publiclawforeveryone.com