‘The High Court is to consider in November a judicial review challenge over the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)’s guidance on trans people’s use of toilets at work and in services, following the Supreme Court’s decision in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 4th August 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘PB was a woman in her early 50s who suffered with a number of health conditions including Emotional Unstable Personality Disorder (“EUPD”) or Borderline Personality Disorder (“BPD”), anxiety and depression, claustrophobia, sleep apnoea, fibromyalgia (a chronic pain condition), severe back, knee and muscle skeleton pain, and a congenital heart condition called Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. PB also had a history of suicidal thoughts. All of PB’s medical conditions were documented in her medical records and she was known to mental health services.’

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Nearly Legal, 3rd August 2025

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‘Five men have been found guilty of murdering a Greek tourist who was followed from a West End club and stabbed to death when he resisted being robbed.’

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BBC News, 1st August 2025

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‘Millions of drivers will miss out on compensation after the supreme court spared lenders a potential £44bn bill for hidden commission payments in car finance contracts.’

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The Guardian, 1st August 2025

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‘The Supreme Court has refused a Children’s Guardian permission to appeal a decision by the Court of Appeal that a court’s powers arising from sections 37(1) and 38(1)(b) of the Children Act 1989 are limited only to a child who is the subject of the proceedings.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 1st August 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘A former nurse has lost her High Court challenge against the registration of England’s first private gender clinic for teenagers.’

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BBC News, 31st July 2025

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Attacks on prison officers and the number of inmate deaths in England and Wales have soared to record levels, according to official figures.’

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The Guardian, 31st July 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (the “DUAA”), which received Royal Assent on 19 June 2025, introduces targeted reforms to the UK data protection legal framework – particularly the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (“PECR”).’

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Kingsley Napley Data Protection Blog, 17th July 2025

Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk

‘A new report into the death of a five-year-old boy who died days after being sent home from a hospital emergency department has found the NHS failed to listen to a “mother’s instinct”.’

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BBC News, 31st July 2025

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‘The Supreme Court has rejected appellant Heini Wathen-Fayed’s case over the siting of crematoria on the basis that it would have created absurdities.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 31st July 2025

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has given the Legal Services Board (LSB) a series of voluntary undertakings about how it will improve its performance over the next three years.’

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Legal Futures, 1st August 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘The education system of England and Wales is governed by a thicket of statutory provisions. Most of these provisions have not been subjected to litigation – educators and civil servants abide by and act under these provisions without the benefit of authoritative court guidance as to their meaning. It is therefore notable when the High Court does provide guidance on a previously unscrutinised provision. Collins Rice J did just that in R (on the application of EBB & Ors) v The Gorse Academies Trust [2025] EWHC 1983 (Admin). The provision in question is section 91 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (“EIA 2006”). The focus of this blog: whether this section imposes a procedural duty on schools in respect of disciplinary penalties short of exclusion.’

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Administrative Court Blog, 31st July 2025

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‘A colleague of Lucy Letby has won a High Court claim against the NHS trust where he works over an investigation into what he knew about the nurse.’

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The Independent, 31st July 2025

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‘A student has been found guilty of assaulting two female police officers at Manchester airport last summer during a violent disturbance that went viral on social media.’

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The Guardian, 30th July 2025

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‘Five million extra online age checks a day are being carried out in the UK since the introduction of age-gating for pornography sites, according to new data.’

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The Guardian, 30th July 2025

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‘The co-founder of Palestine Action can bring an unprecedented legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws, a high court judge has ruled.’

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The Guardian, 30th July 2025

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‘A woman involved in planning the “brutal” sexual assault of three children has seen her sentence reduced following a mathematical “miscalculation” in court.’

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BBC News, 30th July 2025

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‘For years, lawyers and clinicians have thrown around the term ‘Gillick competence’ as if it were a universal test to apply to analyse the decision-making abilities of children. More recently, they have largely limited themselves to throwing the term around in relation to the decision-making abilities of children under 16, looking instead (in England & Wales) to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 for those aged 16 and over.’

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Mental Capacity Law and Policy, 30th July 2025

Source: www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk

‘The high court has upheld the use of isolation booths by schools in England, dashing the hopes of campaigners who argue they are stressful and stigmatising for pupils.’

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The Guardian, 30th July 2025

Source: www.theguardian.com