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• Labour’s plan to slash jury trials will create more miscarriages of justice, say critics

  26-11-2025 19:54
  Leading barrister and pressure groups say move would lead to more unfairness for Black, Asian and minority ethnic defendantsDavid Lammy’s plans to drop juries for all except the most serious cases will create “further unfairness and miscarriages of justice” for Black, Asian and minority ethnic defendants, critics have said.A leading barrister and pressure groups have cited the justice secretary’s own 2017 review into prejudice in the criminal justice system as evidence th
  
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• Labour’s plan to slash jury trials at odds with Starmer’s past calls to expand them

  26-11-2025 19:54
  PM once advocated for all criminal cases to be heard before juries, even those at magistrates court level, it has emergedDavid Lammy’s plans to drop juries for all except the most serious cases will create “further unfairness and miscarriages of justice” for Black, Asian and minority ethnic defendants, critics have said.A leading barrister and pressure groups have cited the justice secretary’s own 2017 review into prejudice in the criminal justice system as evidence that
  
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• Peers are just doing their job in scrutinising the assisted dying bill | Letters

  26-11-2025 18:48
  Dr Lucy Thomas and Penelope Jenkins support the House of Lords’ examination of the bill, but Margaret Pelling says they seem to be blocking the legislation, not scrutinising itSimon Jenkins is right that the Lords should not kill legislation by procedural manoeuvre (Unelected Lords are blocking assisted dying: that’s a democratic outrage) . But peers are not playing games with the assisted dying bill; they are finally providing the independent scrutiny it has so far lacked. And the c
  
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• Budget 25: Government mulls ban on non-compete clauses

  26-11-2025 17:37 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  An outright ban on non-compete causes in employment contracts is among the options proposed in a working paper published alongside yesterday’s budget. According to the consultation document, such clauses 'play a part in restricting employee movement, limiting knowledge spillovers and can undermine incentives for innovation'.
  
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• Budget 25: Chancery Lane welcomes LLP tax reprieve

  26-11-2025 15:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  'Any additional burdens would have created a perfect storm on firms’ ability to invest, hire, and contribute to growth,' president says.
  
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• ‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant

  26-11-2025 14:49
  In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out hereWhen Sylvie Delezenne, a marketing expert from Lille, was job-hunting in 2015, she was delighted to be contacted on LinkedIn by a human resources manager at the French culture ministry, inviting her to Paris for an interview.“It was my dream to work at the culture ministry,” she said. Continue reading...
  
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• Budget 2025: LLP members spared rumoured tax raid

  26-11-2025 13:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Announcements relevant to lawyers in the chancellor’s budget statement and reaction as it comes in.
  
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• Budget 2025 live: LLP taxes in chancellor's sights?

  26-11-2025 13:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves is due to make her budget statement at 12.30 today. The Gazette will cover announcements relevant to lawyers - and reactions from the profession and others.
  
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• Budget 2025 highlights: LLP members spared tax raid; no regulation of tax advisers

  26-11-2025 13:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Announcements relevant to lawyers in the chancellor’s budget statement and reaction as it comes in.
  
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• Budget 2025 highlights and reaction: LLP members spared tax raid; no regulation of tax advisers

  26-11-2025 13:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Announcements relevant to lawyers in the chancellor’s budget statement and reaction as it comes in.
  
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• Judiciary not told of asylum changes, lady chief justice reveals

  26-11-2025 12:39 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill also warns of ‘inaccurate’ comments putting judges at risk.
  
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• Labour’s plan to slash jury trials at odds with past Starmer calls to expand them

  26-11-2025 12:13
  PM once advocated for all criminal cases to be heard before juries even those at magistrates court level, it has emergedBudget 2025 – live updatesKeir Starmer, whose government has drawn up plans to scrap nearly all jury trials, previously said that all criminal cases including those at magistrates courts should be heard before juries, the Guardian can disclose.In a magazine article, the prime minister wrote that “the right to trial by jury is an important factor in the delicate bala
  
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• Bahrain to argue at UK supreme court it has immunity from surveillance claims

  26-11-2025 11:43
  Gulf nation is accused of placing monitoring software on computers of two dissidents living in LondonBahrain is to tell the UK’s supreme court that it enjoys sovereign immunity from claims it placed surveillance software on the computers of two dissidents when they were living in London.The Gulf country has lost the sovereign immunity claim both in the high court and court of appeal, and a decision to take the case further to the supreme court shows how important it is to the country&rsquo
  
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• Exclusive: Lawyers urge Lammy - and the Law Society - to defend solicitor who brought Hamas case

  26-11-2025 10:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Open letter accuses lord chancellor and Society of a ‘shocking dereliction’ of their duty to defend the rule of law.
  
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• This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones

  26-11-2025 09:34
  Three ICC judges have been put on a sanctions list with terrorists after approving an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister. This is the charade of the ‘rules-based order’The fate of one French judge is a case study in the west’s long unravelling. Nicolas Guillou cannot shop online. When he used Expedia to book a hotel in his own country, the reservation was cancelled within hours. He is “blacklisted by much of the world’s banking system”, unable to
  
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• Lammy's reported curb on jury trials 'a step too far'

  26-11-2025 09:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society says government can cut the Crown court backlog without resorting to extreme measures.
  
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• ‘Unavoidably unfair’: the secret courts system hearing part of Palestine Action case

  26-11-2025 07:00
  The CMP system means Huda Ammori will not be allowed to know what allegations were made against herAt some point in the challenge to the ban on Palestine Action beginning on Wednesday, the co-founder of the direct action group will be asked to leave courtroom five at the Royal Courts of Justice, as will her legal team and most others present. Then the case will continue without them.When Huda Ammori returns to the room, the special advocate – a security-cleared barrister – who repres
  
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• From the archive: ‘If you decide to cut staff, people die’: how Nottingham prison descended into chaos – podcast

  26-11-2025 06:00
  We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2022: as violence, drug use and suicide at HMP Nottingham reached shocking new levels, the prison became a symbol of a system crumbling into crisisBy Isobel Thompson. Read by Simon Darwen Continue reading...
  
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