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• Assisted dying vote delayed by three weeks to give MPs time to consider changes

  08-04-2025 20:18
  
  Kim Leadbeater says she is ‘absolutely confident’ postponement will not delay legislation reaching royal assentThe next vote on legislation to introduce assisted dying in England and Wales has been delayed by three weeks to give MPs on all sides more time to consider its changes, the MP leading the issue has said.The bill, which has undergone a significant number of changes since the initial vote in November, will now return to the Commons on 16 May, instead of 25 April, for its repo
  
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• Minority groups have always faced two-tier justice in Britain | Letters

  08-04-2025 18:29
  
  In response to the suspension of new sentencing rules, Cordella Bart-Stewart highlights the racial disparities that continue to dog the criminal justice system. Plus Francesca Cociani on the real-life consequences of the justice secretary’s culture war on sentencingRegarding your article (Lawyers attack dangerous decision to halt Sentencing Council guidelines, 1 April), David Lammy, in his 2017 review into the treatment of, and outcomes for, Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) individu
  
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• Judge awards just £1,200 after credit hire firm claimed £50k

  08-04-2025 16:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judge invites parliament to deal with credit hire costs and the effect on motor premiums.
  
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• Prince Harry says he was ‘singled out for inferior treatment’ in UK security appeal

  08-04-2025 13:58
  
  Duke of Sussex challenging last year’s ruling that Home Office body fairly gave him different level of protectionThe Duke of Sussex claimed he had been “singled out for different, unjustified and inferior treatment”, as he appeared at the high court in London in the latest round of legal action over his security arrangements in the UK.Prince Harry is challenging the dismissal of his high court legal action against the Home Office last year, over a decision by the Executive Comm
  
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• Solicitor arrested by SFO allowed firm to be used as £30m banking facility

  08-04-2025 13:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  William Osmond allowed the payments, despite there being no underlying legal transactions to justify them.
  
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• Sir Philip Green loses privacy claim over being named in parliament

  08-04-2025 12:45 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The European Court of Human Rights says interfering in parliamentary privilege could 'undermine' the separation of powers.
  
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• Sir Philip Green loses privacy case over being named in parliament

  08-04-2025 12:45 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The European Court of Human Rights says interfering in parliamentary privilege could 'undermine' the separation of powers.
  
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• Sir Philip Green loses legal case against UK over use of parliamentary privilege

  08-04-2025 11:34
  
  Tycoon was named in Lords as having obtained injunction against Telegraph to stop publication of misconduct allegationsThe retail tycoon Sir Philip Green has lost a legal case against the UK government after complaining about being publicly named in the House of Lords as facing misconduct allegations.The case, which was said to be a test of the concept of parliamentary privilege, was launched after Lord Hain announced in the House of Lords in 2018 that Green had used the courts to obtain an inte
  
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• Near three-year judgment delay would have led to ex-DDJ’s removal

  08-04-2025 11:03 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Deputy district judge resigned during investigation into a solicitor’s complaint.
  
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• Near three-year judgment delay would have led to DDJ’s removal

  08-04-2025 11:03 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Deputy district judge, as she was at the time, resigned during the investigation into a solicitor’s complaint.
  
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• Claims agent named in legal feud collapses

  08-04-2025 09:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Most recent accounts showed claims negotiator was handling work worth almost £10m.
  
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• Clear drafting and measured risk acceptance

  08-04-2025 09:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Commercial contracts.
  
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• Court slams expert witness for mixing up twins in abuse case

  08-04-2025 08:26 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ruling highlights dangers of expert reports that are 'factually inaccurate, and lacking in enquiry and analysis'.
  
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• Court slams expert for mixing up twins in abuse case

  08-04-2025 08:26 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ruling highlights danger of reports that are 'factually inaccurate and lacking in enquiry and analysis'.
  
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• Is legal action our best hope for holding back the climate crisis?

  08-04-2025 06:00
  
  Monica Feria-Tinta is one of a growing number of lawyers using the courts to make governments around the world take actionIn November 2024, Monica Feria-Tinta, a veteran of UN tribunals and the international criminal court, strode through a heavy black door into a Georgian building in London’s august legal district for a meeting about a tree in Southend. Affectionately known as Chester, the 150-year-old plane tree towers over a bus shelter in the centre of the Essex seaside town. The counc
  
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• ‘All other avenues have been exhausted’: Is legal action the only way to save the planet?

  08-04-2025 06:00
  
  Monica Feria-Tinta is one of a growing number of lawyers using the courts to make governments around the world take actionIn November 2024, Monica Feria-Tinta, a veteran of UN tribunals and the international criminal court, strode through a heavy black door into a Georgian building in London’s august legal district for a meeting about a tree in Southend. Affectionately known as Chester, the 150-year-old plane tree towers over a bus shelter in the centre of the Essex seaside town. The counc
  
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• Judge used ‘arguably archaic’ definition of consent in Lehrmann defamation case, Wilkinson argues

  08-04-2025 05:55
  
  Journalist argues that Justice Michael Lee should have found an ‘intentional rape’ had taken placeElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastJustice Michael Lee relied on an “arguably archaic” definition of consent when he found Bruce Lehrmann was “reckless in his indifference” to Brittany Higgins’ consent, Lisa Wilkinson has argued in fresh submissions in the Lehrmann de
  
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• JAC must disclose recruitment material

  08-04-2025 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tribunal says disclosure of assessment information in the public interest and would put candidates on an equal footing.
  
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• Executions at 10-year high after huge increases in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia

  08-04-2025 01:01
  
  Amnesty International confirms 1,518 people executed in 2024 but says real total is likely to be thousands moreMore people were executed in 2024 than in any other year over the past decade, mainly reflecting a huge increase in executions in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty International’s annual report on the use of the death penalty.The human rights NGO said that although the number of countries carrying out executions was the lowest on record, it had confirmed 1,518 exec
  
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