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• ‘Thousands like us’: couples to take UK government to court over humanist marriages

  11-04-2025 17:05
  Exclusive: Action comes five years after lack of legal recognition for humanist marriage in England and Wales was ruled discriminatoryTwo couples are taking the government to court over its failure to legalise humanist marriage in England and Wales five years after a ruling that the lack of recognition was discriminatory.Engaged couples Terri O’Sullivan and Edd Berrill, from Coventry, and Nicole Shasha and Rory Booth, from Leicester, are preparing to go to court in their fight to be marrie
  
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• ‘Thousands like us’: couples take UK government to court over humanist marriages

  11-04-2025 17:05
  
  Exclusive: Action comes five years after lack of legal recognition for humanist marriage in England and Wales was ruled discriminatoryTwo couples are taking the government to court over its failure to legalise humanist marriage in England and Wales five years after a ruling that the lack of recognition was discriminatory.Engaged couples Terri O’Sullivan and Edd Berrill, from Coventry, and Nicole Shasha and Rory Booth, from Leicester, are preparing to go to court in their fight to be marrie
  
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• Law firm team manager hid lack of complaint progress

  11-04-2025 16:32 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Head of new client unit fabricated notes from calls with complainant.
  
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• Judge slams lack of judicial diversity progress in family courts

  11-04-2025 16:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Her Honour Judge Khatun Sapnara says there are plenty of black, Asian and minority ethnic lawyers with the requisite merit.
  
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• Trump ICC sanctions order challenged in US court by human rights advocates

  11-04-2025 15:30
  
  Exclusive: Lawsuit says ‘unconstitutional’ order violates right to share information with court’s chief prosecutorDonald Trump’s executive order imposing sanctions on the international criminal court (ICC) is facing a legal challenge from two US human rights advocates who argue it is “unconstitutional and unlawful”.In a lawsuit filed in federal court on Friday, the advocates said the order had forced them to stop assisting and engaging with the ICC out of fear
  
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• Social justice champion calls time on near 50-year career

  11-04-2025 13:19 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Patrick Allen qualified in 1977 and set up London firm Hodge Jones & Allen from a Euston squat.
  
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• Private equity-backed firm makes new acquisition

  11-04-2025 13:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Owner organisation Lawfront says deal is sign of commitment to investment.
  
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• Mother argues judge 'wrong' to allow overnight stays following rape findings

  11-04-2025 13:02 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Mother says allegations are ‘plainly relevant to the child’s welfare in any risk assessment’.
  
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• Top sports lawyer accused of copying opponent’s budget

  11-04-2025 12:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Budget filed half an hour late had ‘striking similarities’ to figures filed earlier by claimant.
  
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• Top sports firm accused of copying opponent’s budget

  11-04-2025 12:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ‘Deliberately inflated’ budget filed half an hour late had ‘striking similarities’ to figures submitted earlier by claimant.
  
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• E-conveyancing coalition unveils second 'roadmap'

  11-04-2025 10:46 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Action plan includes local authority pilot to digitise and open up building regulations and highways data.
  
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• EU will not rip up tech rules for trade deal with Trump, senior official says

  11-04-2025 06:00
  
  Bloc is ‘very committed’ to laws on big tech and is not targeting US companies, says European Commission’s Henna VirkkunenThe EU will not rip up its tech rules in an attempt to reach a trade deal with Donald Trump, the bloc’s most senior official on digital policy has said.Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission vice-president responsible for tech sovereignty, indicated the EU was not going to compromise on its digital rulebook to reach an agreement on trade with the US
  
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• Law firms at risk if SRA pulls the plug on client interest

  11-04-2025 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law firms say income from client account interest has been used to offset rising costs.
  
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• Accountancy firm fires new warning on client interest threat

  11-04-2025 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Prime, which conducts SRA audits, says solicitors must start making contingency plans in anticipation of losing key profit driver.
  
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