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• Prisons plan could add 2,600 places in England and Wales amid overcrowding

  13-10-2023 18:54
  
  Portable buildings and extension of electronic tagging expected to be part of package to be announced next weekPrisoners in England and Wales could be moved into portable buildings or released early as part of a huge extension of the electronic tagging scheme, as the justice secretary considers creative measures to solve the overcrowding crisis.Alex Chalk KC is expected to reveal a package of measures on Monday that could add 2,600 prison places across the estate, the Guardian understands. Conti
  
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• Independent fraud review chaired by KC launched

  13-10-2023 18:02 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The first independent review since 1986 will look at current disclosure practices with recommendations expected by next year.
  
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• Government opens independent review of fraud and disclosure offences

  13-10-2023 18:02 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  First independent review since 1986, chaired by a KC, will look at current disclosure practices with recommendations expected by next year.
  
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• Government launches Independent review of fraud and disclosure offences

  13-10-2023 18:02 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  First independent review since 1986, chaired by a KC, will look at current disclosure practices with recommendations expected by next year.
  
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• Partners back merger to create global super-firm A&O Shearman

  13-10-2023 17:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Firm leader says merger is a ’transformational step for legal industry’.
  
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• Partners approve merger to create global super-firm A&O Shearman

  13-10-2023 17:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Firm leader says merger is a ’transformational step for legal industry’.
  
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• AML supervision: Law Society backs consolidation but rejects state regulator

  13-10-2023 17:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chancery Lane favours second of four options proposed by the Treasury: a legal sector supervisor but for England and Wales only.
  
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• UN torture expert accuses private firms of making ever more cruel instruments

  13-10-2023 16:21
  
  Special rapporteur Alice Edwards presents UN general assembly with list of 20 items she wants to see bannedThe United Nation’s top official on torture has accused private manufacturers of developing ever more cruel ways to inflict pain in crowd control and individual restraint equipment, and called for an international ban on the multibillion-dollar trade in some common instruments of torture.Alice Jill Edwards, the special rapporteur on torture, has presented the UN general assembly with
  
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• ‘Revenge on my mind’: Somerset gunman was fascinated with mass killers

  13-10-2023 14:09
  
  Reed Wischhusen seemed to be law-abiding citizen until police found ‘revenge plan’ inspired by Columbine and Dunblane attacksOutwardly Reed Wischhusen lived a quiet, ordinary life, caring for his father, Alan, at their scruffy semi in the Somerset village of Wick St Lawrence and working nightshifts in a budget supermarket’s warehouse near Bristol.On his Facebook page, Wischhusen, 32, described himself as “down to earth and very shy”, a lover of 80s and 90s music and
  
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• AI could widen access to justice in Wales, new LCJ suggests

  13-10-2023 13:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  AI should be explored to improve linguistic access to justice in Wales, Dame Sue Carr has said in her first official speech as Lady Chief Justice.
  
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• City firm’s facilities manager jailed over £1m fake invoice fraud

  13-10-2023 13:45 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Fake invoices came to light following firm’s monitoring and oversight processes.
  
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• Top 50 firm makes redundancies in real estate team

  13-10-2023 13:38 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Trowers & Hamlins says it is responding to reduced market demand.
  
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• ‘Revenge on my mind’: Somerset man jailed for firearms offences was fascinated with mass killers

  13-10-2023 13:34
  
  Reed Wischhusen seemed to be a law-abiding citizen until police found ‘revenge plan’ inspired by Columbine and Dunblane attacksOutwardly Reed Wischhusen lived a quiet, ordinary life, caring for his father Alan at their scruffy semi in the pretty Somerset village of Wick St Lawrence and working nightshifts in a budget supermarket’s warehouse near Bristol.On his Facebook page, Wischhusen, 32, described himself as “down to earth and very shy”, a lover of 80s and 90s mu
  
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• Strong argument for joint regulation of solicitors and barristers, says LSB chief

  13-10-2023 11:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Merger of Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board something to consider, says Legal Services Board CEO Matthew Hill.
  
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• Strong argument for joint regulation of solicitors and barristers - LSB

  13-10-2023 11:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Merger of Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board something to consider, says Legal Services Board chief.
  
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• Never spending story: The Labour party conference

  13-10-2023 09:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Labour party conference was not short of ideas on how to fix the broken justice system, but without any extra money the prospect of far-reaching long-term solutions appears distant
  
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• Labour party conference: The never spending story

  13-10-2023 09:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Labour party conference was not short of ideas on how to fix the broken justice system, but without any extra money the prospect of far-reaching long-term solutions appears distant
  
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• House keeping: Law Society’s property law conference

  13-10-2023 09:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Climate change, upfront information and staff retention in residential conveyancing were among the hot topics at the Law Society’s flagship property law conference
  
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• Sewage in rivers, crumbling schools – what next? No room in prisons for rapists and burglars | Gaby Hinsliff

  13-10-2023 07:00
  
  Even as our underfunded, overcrowded jails run out of places, politicians push the myth that longer sentences make us saferDon’t send criminals to jail, because the jails are already full to bursting.It almost beggars belief that judges were offered this advice at a private meeting last week with Lord Justice Edis, the senior presiding judge for England and Wales, but ministers tellingly won’t deny the reports. Accustomed as we all are by now to things feeling broken, from the trains
  
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