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• MPs continue to back assisted dying bill, amid complaints multiple amendments not voted on –as it happened

  16-05-2025 19:04
  About 150 changes have been made to the bill since MPs voted on it last year. This live blog is closedRantzen urges MPs to back assisted dying voteOne of the amendments to the bill being debated today has been tabled by the Labour MP Naz Shah, who voted against the bill at second reading. Her amendment 14 would tighten the bill so that anyone not terminally ill cannot qualify as terminally ill (meaning they can use assisted dying) “by voluntarily stopping eating or drinking or both”.
  
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• MPs continue to back assisted dying bill, amid complaints multiple amendments not voted on – UK politics live

  16-05-2025 18:06
  
  About 150 changes have been made to the bill since MPs voted on it last yearRantzen urges MPs to back assisted dying voteOne of the amendments to the bill being debated today has been tabled by the Labour MP Naz Shah, who voted against the bill at second reading. Her amendment 14 would tighten the bill so that anyone not terminally ill cannot qualify as terminally ill (meaning they can use assisted dying) “by voluntarily stopping eating or drinking or both”.In her speech Leadbeater s
  
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• ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, to step aside until investigation ends

  16-05-2025 17:59
  
  International criminal court confirms move after latest news reports about details of alleged sexual misconductThe chief prosecutor of the international criminal court, Karim Khan, will take a leave of absence until an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct reaches a conclusion, the court has confirmed.Staff in the ICC’s prosecution division were told on Friday that Khan would temporarily step aside until an external investigation examining the allegations against him was comp
  
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• Low morale and manipulation: why prison officers are having relationships with inmates

  16-05-2025 17:39
  
  Kerri Pegg, ex-governor of HMP Kirkham, is latest in series of convictions of corrupt staff amid Prison Service crisisAs the former prison governor Kerri Pegg begins a stretch behind bars, marking the spectacular fall from grace of a woman once seen as a “rising star” within the service, she becomes the latest in an increasing number of corrupt staff experiencing the other side of a jail cell.On Friday, Pegg, 42, was given a nine-year jail sentence for misconduct in a public office,
  
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• Pre-action protocols, ADR and Churchill

  16-05-2025 16:56 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
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• Rantzen accused of being ‘disrespectful’ as MPs debate assisted dying bill – UK politics live

  16-05-2025 12:29
  About 150 changes have been made to the bill since MPs voted on it last yearRantzen urges MPs to back assisted dying voteOne of the amendments to the bill being debated today has been tabled by the Labour MP Naz Shah, who voted against the bill at second reading. Her amendment 14 would tighten the bill so that anyone not terminally ill cannot qualify as terminally ill (meaning they can use assisted dying) “by voluntarily stopping eating or drinking or both”.In her speech Leadbeater s
  
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• In depth: Law firm and US bar strike blows against Trump - is the tide turning?

  16-05-2025 12:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Four leading US law firms chose to fight Trump’s executive orders. The first full judgment has come down in the sector’s favour – leaving those firms which capitulated to the president in a bind.
  
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• Allow electronic wills, Law Commission tells government

  16-05-2025 11:49 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Draft bill would also abolish the rule that marriage revokes a will.
  
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• Court of Appeal shows no mercy over 16-month delay

  16-05-2025 11:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Defendant failed to challenge £38 million default judgment until action began against a second party.
  
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• Ex-solicitor ordered to stop promoting tax avoidance schemes

  16-05-2025 11:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  HM Revenue & Customs issues two stop notices to Paul Baxendale-Walker, the first time that such notices have been issued to an individual.
  
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• Conveyancers still in the dark on material information

  16-05-2025 10:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society is seeking answers for conveyancers after decision to withdraw 2023 guidance on material information for estate and letting agents.
  
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• Ex-solicitor loses appeal after Google search spewed out fake cases

  16-05-2025 10:18 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judge says court needs to take ‘decisive action’ to protect integrity of its processes from fake citations.
  
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• Republican Texas is a surprising model for solving the UK’s prison crisis – but it just might work | Gaby Hinsliff

  16-05-2025 07:00
  Jails in England and Wales are in overcrowded meltdown, but justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has a rare chance to flip the script. She shouldWhat should become of the two idiots who took a chainsaw to the beloved Sycamore Gap tree? Obviously it was thuggish, a pointless desecration of something that gave countless people joy, judging by the outpouring of unexpectedly deep emotion that followed. Landscapes work their way into the soul. But so does the thought of two children whose father is abou
  
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• Fraudster secured jobs at law firms with bogus degree

  16-05-2025 02:38 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Aditya Rai, who posed as a law graduate to secure roles as a paralegal and legal assistant, charged with fraud.
  
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• Fraudster secured jobs at law firms using fake degree

  16-05-2025 02:38 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Aditya Rai posed as a law graduate to get roles as a paralegal and legal assistant.
  
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