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• Miscarriage of justice watchdog had ‘hole at its heart’, committee chair says

  29-04-2025 22:13
  Chief executive of Criminal Cases Review Commission questioned by MPs over Andrew Malkinson failings, expensive courses and being ‘absent’ bossSenior management at the miscarriage of justice watchdog were told there was a “hole at the heart” of the organisation as MPs criticised its working from home policy and asked executives if they felt they were the right people to continue leading it.In an evidence session on Tuesday, the chief executive of the Criminal Cases Review
  
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• Françoise Hampson obituary

  29-04-2025 17:43
  Human rights lawyer who argued cases challenging the territorial limits of responsibility for military operationsAfter Nato jets bombed Serbian state radio and television (RTS) in Belgrade in 1999, killing 16 technicians and editors, it was a British lawyer, Françoise Hampson, who took on the relatives’ quest for legal redress.Hampson, who has died aged 74 of lung cancer, had the unusual distinction of being a prominent expert in both human rights and international humanitarian law
  
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• Letter: Leonard Leigh obituary

  29-04-2025 14:06
  Leonard Leigh was one of my professors in the law department at the LSE in the late 1960s. Coming from a working- class background, I appreciated his gentle persuasion to join in class discussions. He would then skilfully re-formulate my point until I felt proud at how articulate I sounded, even if all credit was really his.Thus encouraged, I went on to do a PhD and teach at the LSE. Eventually I emigrated to his birthplace of Vancouver (although I don’t recall any direct involvement of hi
  
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• Malta’s ‘golden passport’ scheme ruled to be illegal by EU’s top court

  29-04-2025 13:39
  Long-awaited ruling means cash-for-citizenship programme that allowed people to live and work in bloc must be scrappedEurope live – latest updatesThe European court of justice has ruled that Malta’s “golden passport” scheme is illegal, meaning its cash-for-citizenship programme must be scrapped.In a long-awaited ruling on Tuesday, the EU’s top court concluded that Malta’s investor citizenship scheme was contrary to EU law. Judges said the scheme represented a
  
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• Westminster inquiry calls for evidence on joint enterprise

  29-04-2025 13:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Commission wants to know how the common law doctrine has been applied and concerns over who has been prosecuted.
  
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• Bar lags behind law firms in tech take-up

  29-04-2025 13:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Bar Standards Board research reveals ‘significant’ barriers limiting barristers' ability to use new technology effectively.
  
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• Bar lags behind large law firms in tech take-up

  29-04-2025 13:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Bar Standards Board research reveals ‘significant’ barriers limiting barristers ability to use new technology effectively.
  
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• Court throws out challenge to £700,000 legal bills

  29-04-2025 12:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judge in costs recovery claim finds Howard Kennedy invoices were statutory interim bills clearly broken down for the client.
  
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• My mum died in A&E last month – and the place was like a war zone | Zoe Williams

  29-04-2025 12:00
  Amid the debate about trans people on hospital wards we have lost sight of dignity, respect and the horrifying reality of a health service in meltdownAnother morning, another absolutely bananas conversation about transgender people, without any trans people involved, following the supreme court ruling that permits the exclusion from single-sex spaces of anyone not born into that sex. On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Emma Barnett was asking care minister Stephen Kinnock about wards in hosp
  
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• Solicitor faces £30,000 costs over SRA fine appeal

  29-04-2025 11:57 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tribunal dismisses appeal over £8,000 sanction imposed by adjudicator panel for breach of a property sale undertaking.
  
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• Nine journalist Nick McKenzie allegedly told of Ben Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife’s planned legal action

  29-04-2025 11:57
  Roberts-Smith argues his unsuccessful defamation case against McKenzie and Nine newspapers should be retried because of a ‘miscarriage of justice’Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe Nine journalist Nick McKenzie was told about a legal action Ben Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife planned to take against the war veteran ahead of his defamation trial, a court has heard, with the informant allegedly telling him “it’s always good to be on the front
  
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• UK’s first trans judge appeals to European court of human rights over supreme court ruling

  29-04-2025 11:39
  Victoria McCloud brings action against UK for infringement of her human rights after ruling on biological sexBritain’s first transgender judge is taking the UK to the European court of human rights over the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex.The UK supreme court ruled earlier this month that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act referred only to a biological woman and to biological sex, with subsequent guidance from the equality watchdog amount
  
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• Government warned over new 24-week asylum target

  29-04-2025 10:25 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Immigration bill will also give regulators more power to clamp down on rogue advisers.
  
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• Legal advisers 'need pay parity' with CPS

  29-04-2025 08:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Trained legal advisers quitting HMCTS for better paid jobs in Crown Prosecution Service and local government.
  
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• Press freedom and pluralism face ‘existential battle’ across EU, report finds

  29-04-2025 06:00
  Exclusive: Several governments are attacking or weakening media independence, Civil Liberties Union for Europe saysMedia pluralism in many EU member states is being increasingly strangled by a high concentration of ownership, even in countries with traditionally free media markets, according to a report that concludes press freedom is crumbling across the bloc.The report, produced by the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) based on the work of 43 human rights groups from 21 countries, s
  
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• Police and prosecutors’ details shared with Israel during UK protests inquiry, papers suggest

  29-04-2025 06:00
  Exclusive: Documents indicate government gave embassy contact details while arms factory protest was investigatedThe UK government shared contact details of counter-terrorism police and prosecutors with the Israeli embassy during an investigation into protests at an arms factory, official documents suggest, raising concerns about foreign interference.An email was sent on 9 September last year by the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) to Daniela Grudsky Ekstein, Israel’s deputy ambassado
  
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• Dominican Republic deports pregnant women in ‘inhumane’ migrant crackdown

  29-04-2025 06:00
  More than 130 women and children who fled Haiti to seek healthcare rounded up in hospitals and sent backPregnant women and new mothers are being rounded up in hospitals in the Dominican Republic and deported back to Haiti as part of what observers say is an openly cruel, racist and misogynist government policy.More than 130 Haitian women and children were removed on the first day of a new crackdown on undocumented migrants last week targeting the Caribbean country’s main public hospitals.
  
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• Trump’s first 100 days supercharged a global ‘freefall of rights’, says Amnesty

  29-04-2025 01:01
  World now in era of repressive regimes’ impunity, climate inaction and unchecked corporate power, says reportThe first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency have “supercharged” a global rollback of human rights, pushing the world towards an authoritarian era defined by impunity and unchecked corporate power, Amnesty International warns today.In its annual report on the state of human rights in 150 countries, the organisation said the immediate ramifications of Trump&rsquo
  
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