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• Ex-Orrick lawyer touched colleagues, tribunal finds

  04-04-2025 18:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  City lawyer acted without integrity but did not exploit his senior position.
  
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• Ex-Orrick lawyer touched colleagues inappropriately, tribunal finds

  04-04-2025 18:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  City lawyer acted without integrity but did not exploit his senior position.
  
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• Shabana Mahmood: lord chancellor with political nous unafraid to shake up system

  04-04-2025 17:16
  
  Her introduction to politics began in Birmingham as the child of a Labour councillor and as justice secretary she’s made tough decisions from day oneShabana Mahmood’s potential as a future cabinet minister was first noticed by the former deputy Labour leader Tom Watson in the 90s over tea and samosas at her family’s end-of-terrace Birmingham home.Watson, a seasoned fixer, had become a close friend of her father, Mahmood Ahmed, a Labour councillor. When political problems arose,
  
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• US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions

  04-04-2025 14:46
  
  California cases over AI trainers’ use of work by writers including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabontransferred to consolidate with New York suits from John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen and moreTwelve US copyright cases against OpenAI and Microsoft have been consolidated in New York, despite most of the authors and news outlets suing the companies being opposed to centralisation.A transfer order made by the US judicial panel on multidistrict litigation on Thursday said that centralisati
  
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• Trump’s attacks on law firms are an attack on law itself | David Cole and Amrit Singh

  04-04-2025 14:00
  In unprecedented orders, the president is targeting lawyers simply for filing cases he opposes. And firms are surrenderingIf you are systematically engaged in lawbreaking, lawyers can be very annoying. They sue, and their suits may lead courts to declare your actions illegal.So Donald Trump, who has launched his second term with a blizzard of blatantly illegal actions, many of which have been suspended by the courts, has decided to address the problem at its root. He’s targeting lawyers, p
  
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• Despite Livia Tossici-Bolt's conviction, the US is not finished with making abortion a UK culture war issue | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  04-04-2025 13:22
  We should all be worried that the rightwing organisation Alliance Defending Freedom has been increasing its activities in this countryI couldn’t sleep the other night, because I made the fatal mistake of reading about US politics directly before bed, specifically the executive order calling for the removal of “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian museums. If US politics were a film, I’d say we’re somewhere in between having read aloud f
  
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• UK law firm offices caught by Trump’s DEI assault

  04-04-2025 13:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The US president’s war on diversity initiatives is starting to be keenly felt on this side of the Atlantic.
  
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• SRA neglected risks of ‘accumulator’ firms - Law Society

  04-04-2025 12:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Only urgent action from the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s leadership will restore the profession’s trust in its regulator, Chancery Lane said this week.
  
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• Leadership plea to SRA

  04-04-2025 12:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Only urgent action from the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s leadership will restore the profession’s trust in its regulator, the Law Society’s chief executive said this week.
  
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• Criminal sanctions warning over City’s dirty money failings

  04-04-2025 12:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  City solicitors must toughen up client due diligence or the profession will be hit by criminal sanctions for enabling kleptocrats to sluice ‘dirty money’ through London.
  
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• ‘People are distressingly ignorant’: Hale and Sumption at the Lords rule of law inquiry

  04-04-2025 11:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Appearing before a Lords inquiry into the rule of law, Lady Hale and Lord Sumption called for better education, while highlighting media misinformation and inequality of arms.
  
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• Legal executive barred for fabricating defendant’s admission

  04-04-2025 09:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Hodge Jones and Allen provided concerns about documents in 32 matters handled by lawyer.
  
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• Chartered legal exec at top PI firm banned for fabricating defendant’s admission

  04-04-2025 09:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Hodge Jones & Allen provided concerns about documents in 32 matters handled by lawyer.
  
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• ‘Discriminatory’ VAT on school fees ‘unprecedented’

  04-04-2025 08:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  High Court challenge by private school pupils claims Labour’s plan breaches European convention right to education.
  
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• ‘Discriminatory’ VAT on school fees ‘breaches ECHR’

  04-04-2025 08:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  High Court challenge by private school pupils claims Labour’s plan breaches European convention right to education.
  
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• Activist takes case over Trinidad’s homophobic laws to UK’s privy council

  04-04-2025 06:00
  
  Legislation was repealed in 2018 but Caribbean country’s supreme court last week recriminalised the act after appealThe privy council in London will soon be called upon to make the final decision on a court case to remove homophobic laws in Trinidad and Tobago.The laws were repealed in 2018 in a high court judgment that struck from the statute book the “buggery law” that had criminalised consensual anal sex since an act passed in 1925 under British rule. However, last week Trin
  
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