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• Zara Aleena’s family may sue over murder by released prisoner

  24-01-2023 19:35
  
  Legal action being considered after report highlights failings that allowed Jordan McSweeney to kill London womanThe family of Zara Aleena are considering taking legal action over the disastrous failings that led to her murder by a recently released prisoner, the Guardian has been told.It follows an official report that found Jordan McSweeney, 29, who murdered the aspiring lawyer in June 2022, should have been assessed by probation officers as a high-risk offender, but was classed as posing a me
  
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• Tory MP’s bill aims to stop the powerful using the law to stifle public debate

  24-01-2023 19:34
  
  Private member’s bill from Bob Seely would enable courts in England and Wales to penalise wealthy figures using vexatious litigation known as SlappsMinisters are being urged to back a private member’s bill designed to penalise wealthy public figures who exploit the court system for “legalised intimidation” of investigative journalists, campaigners and watchdogs.The bill, put forward by Conservative MP Bob Seely on Tuesday, is intended to put pressure on the government to
  
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• Trans rights in Scotland and a constitutional clash | Letters

  24-01-2023 19:14
  
  Readers respond to commentary on the UK government’s decision to block Scotland’s proposed gender recognition lawRe your editorial (18 January) on the “constitutional battle” over Scotland’s gender recognition bill, I am no stranger to devolution and its intricate operations. And, as a principal architect of the Labour party’s 2019 general election manifesto compromise policy on the clash of rights arising between women and girls’ need for single-sex spa
  
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• UK government ‘let lawyers bypass sanctions’ to help Putin ally sue journalist

  24-01-2023 15:37
  
  Documents seen by Open Democracy show UK firm got approval to engage with Wagner group founder Yevgeny PrigozhinBritish lawyers were given government dispensation to bypass sanctions in order to help Yevgeny Prigozhin, the controversial Russian businessman and Wagner group founder, sue a journalist, according to documents made availableto the website Open Democracy.The documents concern a libel case brought by Prigozhin against Eliot Higgins, the founder of the investigative group Bellingcat, in
  
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• Slater and Gordon to raise new capital after reporting another huge loss

  24-01-2023 13:50 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  National firm lost £18m in 2021 but says future is brighter following restructuring.
  
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• Slater and Gordon seeks new funding after reporting another huge loss

  24-01-2023 13:50 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  National firm lost £18m in 2021 but says future is brighter following restructuring.
  
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• Referral routes widened for early advice pilot

  24-01-2023 13:45 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal aid practitioners will be able to refer people potentially eligible for social welfare support.
  
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• FCA concerned about 'inappropriate sourcing' of CMC clients

  24-01-2023 13:25 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Advertising, client capture and approach to regulation all ongoing issues for claims management regulator.
  
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• A quarter of judgments still unpublished

  24-01-2023 12:25 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Study covers the first three months of National Archives' Find Case Law database.
  
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• Probation service and ministers have ‘blood on hands’, say Zara Aleena’s family

  24-01-2023 01:01
  
  Watchdog report uncovers series of failings in supervision of Jordan McSweeney, who murdered the law graduate last yearMinisters and the probation service have been accused of having “blood on their hands” after a watchdog uncovered failings which left a violent, woman-hating racist free to murder the law graduate Zara Aleena.Jordan McSweeney should have been seen by probation officers as a high-risk offender with a long history of misogynistic and racially aggravated incidents and r
  
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