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• Tories claim No 10 admission UK won’t avoid new US tariffs shows Starmer has failed to protect British business – as it happened

  31-03-2025 18:32
  
  Andrew Griffith, shadow business secretary, says prime minister needs to work on ‘rekindling US trade deal’Downing Street has sent out more details of the enforced returns numbers quoted by Keir Starmer in his speech to the Organised Immigration Crime summit. (See 9.26am.)It says the more than 24,000 migrants made to leave the country since July 2024 meant the government has achieved the highest rate of returns in eight years. It says:The continued rise in removals includes a 21% inc
  
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• Sentencing Council suspends plans for new guidelines amid ‘two-tier’ justice row

  31-03-2025 18:06
  
  Guidelines could have led to criminals in England and Wales getting different sentences depending on their age, sex and ethnicityThe Sentencing Council has caved to pressure and suspended plans for new guidelines which could have led to different sentences depending on age, sex and ethnicity, as ministers prepare to force through a law to overturn proposals.The climbdown – hours before the guidance would have come into force – comes after a standoff with the Ministry of Justice which
  
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• Ministry of Justice finds £6m for legal support

  31-03-2025 16:53 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Justice minister says access to early legal support can stop people's housing, welfare benefits and debt problems spiralling.
  
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• In depth: Spring statement - HMRC targets tax avoidance enablers

  31-03-2025 16:34 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  While Rachel Reeves’ spring statement was devoid of a ‘proper investment plan’ for justice, it did propose a crackdown on advisers who promote tax avoidance schemes – with fines running into millions.
  
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• Solicitors charge £1,475 an hour for documents application

  31-03-2025 16:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Party in Mastercard case charged more than £50,000 for work on application to see documents.
  
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• CAT president slashes 'wholly disproportionate' costs in Mastercard case

  31-03-2025 16:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Akin Gump billed at up to triple guideline hourly rates -  including £1,120 for Grade B solicitors - for application costs.
  
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• Starmer ‘shocked’ by lack of coordination between police, Border Force and intelligence agencies on illegal migration – UK politics live

  31-03-2025 14:09
  
  UK PM hosting international summit on illegal migration and claims Labour has achieved the highest return rate for eight yearsDowning Street has sent out more details of the enforced returns numbers quoted by Keir Starmer in his speech to the Organised Immigration Crime summit. (See 9.26am.)It says the more than 24,000 migrants made to leave the country since July 2024 meant the government has achieved the highest rate of returns in eight years. It says:The continued rise in removals includes a
  
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• Judges block Trump’s ‘unconstitutional’ crackdown on law firms

  31-03-2025 13:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Two firms fight back as Skadden Arps strikes pre-emptive $100m deal with US president.
  
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• Judges block Trump’s ‘unconstitutional’ crackdown on firms

  31-03-2025 13:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Two firms fight back as Skadden Arps makes pre-emptive $100m deal with US president.
  
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• New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures

  31-03-2025 12:00
  
  Only a few statues remain, with thousands of priceless artefacts from Nubian and Kushite kingdoms missingVideos of Sudan’s national museum showing empty rooms, piles of rubble and broken artefacts posted on social media after the Sudanese army recaptured the area from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in recent days show the extent of looting of the country’s antiquities.Fears of looting in the museum were first raised in June 2023 and a year later satellite images emerged
  
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• Legal training manager who lost her team was not forced to resign

  31-03-2025 11:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Claimant alleged she was forced to quit following changes to her role and lack of team responsibilities.
  
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• Legal Services Board slams SRA failings in damning report

  31-03-2025 10:31 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulatory performance assessment by oversight watchdog also questions effectiveness of the SRA’s leadership team.
  
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• 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands review – war crimes revisited

  31-03-2025 08:00
  
  In the final part of a bravura trilogy detailing the struggle to bring war criminals to account, Sands tracks a former SS commander to Chile, where he found a friend in Augusto PinochetThis is the concluding part of Philippe Sands’s extraordinary trilogy – part history, part moral investigation, part memoir – that documents the legal and personal battles to bring to account Nazi war criminals and their disciples.In East West Street he recounted the plight of Lviv, the city now
  
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• Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race

  31-03-2025 07:02
  
  Musk denied he was buying votes but said the court election outcome would be critical to Trump’s agenda and ‘the future of civilization’Elon Musk gave out $1m checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group, ahead of a Wisconsin supreme court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to Donald Trump’s agenda and “the future of civilization”.“It’s a super big deal,” he told a roughly 2,00
  
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• Elon Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race

  31-03-2025 07:02
  
  Musk denied he was buying votes but said the court election outcome would be critical to Trump’s agenda and ‘the future of civilization’Elon Musk gave out $1m checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group, ahead of a Wisconsin supreme court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to Donald Trump’s agenda and “the future of civilization”.“It’s a super big deal,” he told a roughly 2,00
  
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• Designers say plans for UK copyright law risk ‘running roughshod’ over sector

  31-03-2025 07:00
  
  Leading figures including Tom Dixon and Sebastian Conran add voices to criticism of government’s AI opt-out proposalA proposed overhaul of copyright law risks “running roughshod” over a British design industry that has created such memorable products as the red phone box, the London underground map and the iPhone, according to a group of leading UK designers.In a letter to the technology secretary, Peter Kyle, 35 UK-based designers have urged the government to change cours on i
  
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• Be ready to battle fake reviews, in-house lawyers told

  31-03-2025 03:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  New powers will make it easier for Competition and Markets Authority to take direct action on consumer law breaches.
  
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• Judge demands proof before cutting 'duplication' costs

  31-03-2025 02:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Paying parties cannot expect to secure costs reductions based on a single-paragraph objection.
  
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• CCRC sets up case study hub to 'assist potential applicants'

  31-03-2025 02:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Review body says it hopes the new hub will support its work investigating possible miscarriages of justice.
  
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• Private equity’s next big opportunity

  31-03-2025 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal services.
  
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• Blood is not always thicker than water

  31-03-2025 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Divorce.
  
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• Anonymising the names of judges

  31-03-2025 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Open justice.
  
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