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• MoJ investigating 'data breach' at Legal Aid Agency

  07-05-2025 18:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government working with National Crime Agency and National Cyber Security Centre to investigate 'incident'.
  
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• Colin Russell obituary

  07-05-2025 17:51
  
  My friend Colin Russell, who has died aged 80, was born into a family of celebrated lawyers and judges, and deployed his own legal expertise in the service of charity.His great-grandfather was the 19th-century lord chief justice Lord (Charles) Russell of Killowen, the first Roman Catholic to hold that office for centuries, and the same title was later held by two other family members, law lords of great eminence. Continue reading...
  
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• Efficient service? MPs to probe family court system

  07-05-2025 15:33 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ministry of Justice and Department for Education officials will be grilled on why families are waiting up to a year for their cases to be resolved.
  
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• ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel case reaches settlement after ‘long and unhappy road’

  07-05-2025 12:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Costs judge says the £1,190,000 settlement was ‘satisfactory commercial conclusion for both sides’.
  
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• Judge flags lawyers to regulators after five fake cases cited

  07-05-2025 12:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Barrister instructed by law centre accused of relying on AI to produce authorities that did not exist.
  
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• 'Appalling': High Court judge alerts regulators over fake case authorities

  07-05-2025 12:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Barrister instructed by London law centre accused of relying on artificial intelligence to produce citations that turned out to be bogus.
  
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• Woman wins £30,000 compensation for being compared to Darth Vader

  07-05-2025 12:04
  Croydon employment tribunal rules NHS worker Lorna Rooke suffered workplace ‘detriment’Comparing someone at work to the Star Wars villain Darth Vader is “insulting” and “upsetting”, an employment tribunal has ruled.A judge concluded that being told you have the same personality type as the infamous sci-fi baddie is a workplace “detriment” – a legal term meaning harm or negative impact experienced by a person. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Ping your Lawyer' app struggles to recover client fees amid SRA probe

  07-05-2025 10:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lawbit Ltd provided legal services through the closed firm LawBriefs, rendering the firm’s debts difficult to recover.
  
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• In depth: Is Big Law in the UK holding the line on DEI?

  07-05-2025 10:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  We contacted all the top 25 firms to find out.
  
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• Criminals in England and Wales face sanctions for refusing to attend sentencing

  07-05-2025 08:00
  Segregation in cells and less gym time among measures to be introducedCriminals who refuse to attend their sentencing face segregation in prison cells and longer time in jail under new powers handed to judges.Tougher sanctions across England and Wales will include confinement to cells and less time in the gym among measures to be introduced to parliament on Wednesday. Continue reading...
  
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