‘Three NHS workers have launched legal action against an NHS trust claiming that a new uniform policy unlawfully discriminates against them – and is in breach of the Equality Act 2010 – because of their pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist beliefs.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 19th June 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘The judgment represents a very rare example of where the court has found that there was an intention to create legal relations in a domestic context. It also provides important guidance relating to mental capacity, which was of particular relevance in this claim given the claimant’s mother’s diagnosis with dementia.’

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4 KBW, 9th June 2025

Source: www.4kbw.co.uk

‘In this paper, I explore the notion of public interest embedded in the Procurement Act 2023. I use this new piece of post-Brexit legislation as a contemporary example of the difficulty in designing a ‘public interest centred’ system of public procurement regulation. I show how a mix of partly overlapping explicit, referential, and implicit public interest goals results in a situation where there are multiple sources of objectives contracting authorities need to consider in their decision-making, but there is no prioritisation of sources or objectives. I also show that, despite this kaleidoscopic proliferation of sources and objectives, and due to the unavailability of effective means of judicial challenge or administrative oversight, contracting authorities retain almost unlimited discretion to shape the public interest and ‘what it looks like’ in relation to the award of each public contract. This challenges the centralised approach to procurement policy taken by recent and current UK Governments and, in particular, raises significant questions on the likely effectiveness of ‘mission-driven’ procurement. I close with a call to reconsider how public procurement can foster the public interest, in light of its limitations as a regulatory tool.’

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Legal Studies, 17th June 2025

Source: www.cambridge.org

‘A psychologist who was found to have misled the family court about his qualifications had previously given expert evidence in at least seven other cases in which he may have been acting outside his remit.’

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The Guardian, 19th June 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘Edward Sawyer of Wilberforce Chambers revisits s 37/reg 42 and the Virgin Media litigation, describing the main s 37/reg 42 issues debated during the recent Verity Trustees trial and looking at how the proposed new legislation might potentially interact with those issues.’

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Pensions Barristers, 19th June 2025

Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com

‘The attorney general has warned Sir Keir Starmer that Britain becoming involved in US attacks on Iran could be illegal.’

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The Independent, 19th June 2025

Source: www.independent.co.uk

The assessment of Scope 3 downstream emissions from oil and gas production has been the subject of litigation in the United Kingdom for many years with environmental campaigners calling for its inclusion into the environmental impact assessment, and the authorities and the industry maintaining that these emissions are outside the scope of the assessment. The dispute appears to have been resolved by the UK Supreme Court decision in Finch v Surrey County Council [2024] UKSC 20, which established that emissions resulting from burning the produced oil and gas – wherever that takes place – must be considered in the environmental impact assessment. Together with the Labour Government’s platform of no new oil and gas exploration, the decision delivered hope to climate campaigners and despair to the oil and gas industry. This analysis reviews the Finch decision with a focus on its legal significance and practical implications for the UK energy sector and beyond.

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Journal of Environmental Law, 17th June 2025

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‘This is the first in a three-part analysis of R (ALR and others) v Chancellor of the Exchequer [2025] EWHC 1467 (Admin). In this post, I cover the constitutional aspects of the judgment, in particular its Annex B on parliamentary privilege and Article IX of the Bill of Rights. The second and third posts in this series will feature the ECHR and implications for Northern Ireland under EU law.’

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Administrative Court Blog, 19th June 2025

Source: administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com

‘Former health secretary Sir Jeremy Hunt has called for an “urgent re-examination” of the Lucy Letby case after “serious and credible” questions were raised by experts.’

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BBC News, 18th June 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘A serial rapist feared to be one of the worst sexual offenders in British history has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 24 years for drugging and raping 10 women in the UK and China.’

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The Guardian, 19th June 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘Universities in England will no longer be able to enforce blanket bans on student protests under sweeping new guidance that urges a “very strong” approach to permitting lawful speech on campus.’

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The Guardian, 19th June 2025

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‘Whether you consider yourself neurodiverse, you are the loved one of someone who is neurodiverse or you want to support a neurodivergent individual in family proceedings, this blog provides a summary of the best practice which should be used by family lawyers to help neurodivergent individuals navigate the family legal system.’

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Kingsley Napley Family Law Blog, 19th June 2025

Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk

‘Strangulation in pornography will be banned after a review warned violent depictions have effectively established choking as a “sexual norm”.’

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The Independent, 19th June 2025

Source: www.independent.co.uk

‘The High Court has rejected a claim that a girl should not have been permanently excluded from school because her Article 4 ECHR rights were infringed.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 18th June 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘British MPs have voted to decriminalise abortion, marking the biggest step forward in reproductive rights in almost 60 years.’

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The Guardian, 17th June 2025

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‘This article demonstrates how historical and longitudinal inquiry – including a deep dive into archival sources – can add to our understanding of the processes of change and how they happen within the policing organisation. Using frameworks adapted from Feminist Institutionalism, it identifies variations in the type and pace of change across time, shows that trajectories were uneven and not one way, and explains how historical actors have operated within (and interacted with) institutional and contextual parameters in gendered ways and with gendering effects. Focusing on the debates surrounding the introduction, implementation and mobilisation of the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act (and equivalent legislation for Northern Ireland), it analyses the strategies and tools used by exogenous actors, relationships with internal actors, and capacity to produce internal change. Concentrating on the 1970s–1990s, it sets this within the broader trajectory of women’s appointment as police officers from 1915, the layering in of the separate structure of Policewomen’s Departments, and the work of senior female officers and members of the inspectorate in effecting slow, gradualist and pragmatic expansion of numbers and remit prior to the 1970s.’

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Policing and Society, 18th June 2025

Source: www.tandfonline.com

‘A woman who was sexually abused as a child is suing a police force after an officer revealed her identity to a member of the public.’

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BBC News, 19th June 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk