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• Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says

  22-05-2025 20:23
  Speaking at book festival in East Sussex, former supreme court president says reaction to judgment ‘very binary’The supreme court’s ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex “has been misinterpreted”, Brenda Hale has said.Speaking at the Charleston literary festival in East Sussex, the first female president of the supreme court said the last thing she wanted now that she had retired was to “undermine the court and its authority by
  
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• Experts ‘would refuse to take part’ in mandatory castration for sex offenders

  22-05-2025 19:47
  
  Leading figures say compulsory program is ‘ethically unsound’ and would be challenged in courtsExplainer: What are the ‘radical’ proposed reforms to UK criminal sentencing?Leading experts on the use of chemical castration for managing sexual offenders have said they would refuse to be part of any programme in the UK that makes the intervention compulsory.Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, confirmed in the Commons on Thursday that she was examining whether she could f
  
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• UK politics: Starmer accused of being ‘beneath contempt’ for attack on Chagos deal critics – as it happened

  22-05-2025 19:13
  
  Shadow defence secretary attacks PM’s assertion that opponents of the deal were on the side of Russia and China. This blog is now closed. You can read our report here The Conservatives are taking the credit for the near-50% fall in net migration. They say it is the changes to visa rules that they introduced that brought the numbers down.This is from Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary.Net migration has halved - dropped by 430,000 - in 2024 compared to 2023This is thanks to measures put
  
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• Publish tax returns to flush out dodgers | Brief letters

  22-05-2025 18:52
  
  Many happy tax returns | Saving the welfare state | Defeat’s silver lining | Champion pundits | AI and copyrightRe your article (UK’s 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of population, analysis finds, 19 May), we would all see how little the super‑rich pay in taxes if we adopted the Scandinavian system of putting all tax returns in the public domain. Nosy neighbours would soon flush out tax dodgers.
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• Veteran solicitor struck off for concealing bankruptcy

  22-05-2025 11:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tribunal says outcome could have been different if  'capable, diligent and competent' solicitor had made frank disclosures.
  
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• Scotland to stop unqualified advisers from calling themselves 'lawyers'

  22-05-2025 10:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society to continue regulating solicitors after Holyrood snubs main recommendation of its own report.
  
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• Gauke unveils sentencing reforms to end prison population crisis

  22-05-2025 08:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Short custodial sentences would be handed down only in exceptional circumstances and well-behaved prisoners released early.
  
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• No legal rule rendering voluntarily incurred losses irrecoverable, Supreme Court finds

  22-05-2025 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Engineering consultancy firm URS Corporation argued it should not be liable for repairs which a building firm did not need to carry out.
  
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• Shabana Mahmood considers chemical castration for serious sex offenders

  22-05-2025 01:19
  Justice secretary expected to back radical sentencing reforms, including use of libido-suppressing drugs in England and WalesShabana Mahmood, the lord chancellor, is considering mandatory chemical castration for the most serious sex offenders, according to government sources.The minister’s department is planning to expand a pilot to 20 regions as part of a package of “radical” measures to free thousands of prisoners and ease prison overcrowding in England and Wales. Continue re
  
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