‘A former singer for Spandau Ballet has been found guilty of rape and attempted rape.’

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BBC News, 28th January 2026

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‘Record numbers of offenders are being recalled to prison in England and Wales with union officials claiming that some are deliberately breaking the terms of their probation in order to deal drugs in prison.’

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The Guardian, 29th January 2026

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‘The Appellant, Dr Lee, was a GP. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal (‘MPT’) found that he had dishonestly falsified Patient A’s medical records on three separate occasions. As would be expected in such circumstances, the Tribunal concluded that his fitness to practise was impaired. His registration was suspended for 12 months, the maximum under the Medical Act 1983. Dr Lee appealed.’

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1 QMLR, 27th January 2026

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‘The Court of Appeal (Lady Carr LCJ, Singh and Whipple LJJ) has allowed the Metropolitan Police’s appeal against the High Court’s finding that unproven allegations and allegations resulting in a determination of no case to answer cannot be taken into account in reviewing police officers’ Force Vetting clearance, absent exceptional circumstances.’

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Administrative Court Blog, 27th January 2026

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‘A cryptocurrency company advised by George Osborne has been banned from showing a set of adverts that suggested using its services could be a solution to the cost of living crisis.’

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The Guardian, 28th January 2026

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‘A couple of case notes on County Court judgments, on validity of a s.21 notice, and on whether an introductory tenancy ceased to be so because of an administrative snafu in the filing of an appeal.’

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Nearly Legal, 27th January 2026

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‘Rapper DigDat, whose real name is Nathan Tokosi, has been handed a life sentence for his role in a drive-by shooting that left a rival artist severely injured.’

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The Independent, 27th January 2026

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‘Five prisoners serving indefinite sentences have been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), BBC Newsnight has been told.’

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BBC News, 28th January 2026

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‘A solicitor who groomed two teenage girls into engaging in sexual activity and sending explicit images, before pressuring them to retract their accounts, has been jailed for nine years and nine months.’

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Legal Futures, 28th January 2026

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‘A coroner has warned more babies could die without guidance on the role of “unregulated” birthing assistants, after the death of a 15-day-old baby raised concerns about delayed access to hospital treatment.’

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The Independent, 22nd January 2026

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‘The High Court will examine whether the Metropolitan Police is acting lawfully with its deployments of live facial recognition, in the UK’s first judicial review of how the technology is being used.’

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Computer Weekly, 27th January 2026

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‘A man who sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl as she walked home in her school uniform nearly 30 years ago has been jailed following a DNA evidence “breakthrough”.’

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BBC News, 23rd January 2026

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‘A man who sought asylum in the UK has been found guilty of raping a “drunk and obviously vulnerable” woman in a Nottinghamshire park.’

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The Independent, 26th January 2026

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‘”Tomas” is a two year old boy who was removed from his parents to live in foster care under an interim care order in January 2025. (None of the parties’ real names are used in this post.) In a three-day final hearing in November, care and placement for adoption orders were made in respect of Tomas by Cardiff Family Court.’

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Transparency Project, 26th January 2026

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‘The Home Secretary has unveiled what are being described as the most significant reforms to policing in its history.’

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The Independent, 26th January 2026

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‘A former prison officer has been jailed after admitting a sexual relationship with an inmate.’

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BBC News, 26th January 2026

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‘A longstanding bugbear of mine is the lack of transparency over remedial discretion in published judicial review judgments, i.e. not seeing in published judgments what the remedy for a successful judicial review is. Often this is largely understandable, because the matter can only be addressed through further submissions after hand down.’

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Administrative Court Blog, 23rd January 2026

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‘A British-based YouTube critic of the Saudi royal family has been awarded more than £3 million in compensation after his phone was hacked and he was subjected to a physical assault outside Harrods in London.’

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The Independent, 27th January 2026

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‘The saying “Fair’s fair” refers to the instinctive sense that acting fairly is what everyone should do, even if they don’t. However, local authorities and other public bodies have a duty to act fairly following the principles of natural justice. These are that no one is to be a judge in their own cause (nemo iudex in causa sua) and that the parties must have a fair opportunity of presenting their views on the matters in issue (audi alteram partem – hear the other side). But as Lord Bridge (pictured) observed in Lloyd v McMahon [1987] AC 625: “The so-called rules of natural justice are not engraved on tablets of stone. To use the phrase which better expresses the underlying concept, what the requirements of fairness demand when any body, domestic, administrative or judicial, has to make a decision which will affect the rights of individuals, depends on the character of the decision-making body, the kind of decision it has to make and the statutory or other framework in which it operates. In particular, it is well-established that when a statute has conferred on any body the power to make decisions affecting individuals, the courts will not only require the procedure prescribed by the statute to be followed, but will readily imply so much and no more to be introduced by way of additional procedural safeguards as will ensure the attainment of fairness.”‘

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Law Society's Gazette, 23rd January 2026

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‘The crux of the issue in this appeal is both narrow and, to some degree, exceptionally broad. It is narrow in that the central issue before the Court of Appeal was “whether an application made under s.75(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983 by a mental health patient to the First-tier Tribunal while subject to a conditional discharge is extinguished by the recall to hospital of that patient by the Secretary of State for Justice under s42(3) of the Act”; a pithy, glamorous summary.’

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UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd January 2026

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