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• What juries can do that professional judges can’t | Letters

  03-12-2025 18:34
  Jurors bring a humane, rounded perspective to the system, says Simeon Wallis. Plus letters from Diana Good and Francis FitzGibbon KCSimon Jenkins implies that removing juries will give us the benefits of European inquisitorial judicial systems or the enlightened Scandinavian approach to justice (David Lammy is right to slash the use of juries – it’s an open-and-shut case, 28 November).Neither the Leveson report nor David Lammy’s memo suggest anything of the kind. They seek to r
  
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• Mining giant BHP fails to block Pogust Goodhead’s US witness move

  03-12-2025 17:36 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  'Parties are entitled to make use of litigation advantages…if available,' Mr Justice Waksman rules.
  
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• Firm's response 'attempted to mislead' employment tribunal

  03-12-2025 17:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Employment tribunal judge finds family law firm failed to comply with judge’s orders over disclosure.
  
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• Labour proposed in opposition how to introduce assisted dying via private member’s bill

  03-12-2025 16:33
  Leaked document raises questions over amount of government control behind MP Kim Leadbeater’s billLabour proposed while in opposition how to introduce assisted dying via a private member’s bill, suggesting that would still allow “heavy influence” for the government in the process, a leaked document has revealed.The document, seen by the Guardian, proposed a change strikingly similar to the private member’s bill put forward eventually by the Labour MP Kim Leadbeater
  
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• The Sarah Everard report part two: a catalogue of repeated and preventable failures | Joan Smith

  03-12-2025 13:11
  So many reviews, so much hand-wringing, yet misogyny in England and Wales’s police forces and impunity for offenders remains the normHow do we get sexual predators out of the country’s police forces? It was one of the most urgent questions asked in 2021 when a serving police officer, PC Wayne Couzens, was charged with the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard. In the first report of Elish Angiolini’s inquiry into this dreadful sequence of events, published in February las
  
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• Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide

  03-12-2025 12:40
  Exclusive: Analyst claims UK officials deleted alert to threat of genocidal violence by paramilitaries to protect UAEWarnings of a possible “genocide” in Sudan were removed from a UK risk assessment by Foreign Office officials, according to a whistleblower whose testimony raises fresh concern over British failures to act on the atrocities unfolding in the war-ravaged country.The threat analyst said they were prevented from warning that genocide could occur in Darfur by Foreign, Commo
  
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• Think before you meddle, LCJ advises constitutional reformers

  03-12-2025 12:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lady Carr contrasts the Blair government's 'ad-hoc' approach with that of its Victorian forbears - and is clear which she prefers.
  
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• Lammy accused of downplaying offences to justify jury proposal

  03-12-2025 11:22 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Deputy prime minister suggested right to elect a jury trial should be taken away from defendant accused of stealing an iPhone.
  
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• Post Office criminal charging decisions not likely until 2027, say police

  03-12-2025 10:22 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Five individuals have been interviewed under caution as part of review into role of lawyers and investigators.
  
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• I accompanied my wife to Dignitas. The Lords' filibustering is an insult to all like her who have suffered | Dave Sowry

  03-12-2025 09:00
  Christy faced months of bureaucratic trauma. For terminally ill people, the assisted dying bill must not create further obstaclesThree years ago, I sat in a hotel in Zurich, awaiting my flight home, wondering how I was going to get through the next few weeks and months. Having been with my wife, Christy, at Dignitas the day before, I was hoping I would avoid prosecution. That day had been the most profound day of my life, full of great sadness, but also great love, and a sense of peace that Chri
  
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• Handling of China spying case was ‘shambolic’, security committee concludes

  03-12-2025 01:01
  Report says ‘systemic failures’ led to collapse of trial, but found no evidence of UK government interference Parliament’s security committee has criticised prosecutors for pulling their charges against two men accused of spying for Beijing, in a damning report that concluded the handling of the case was “shambolic”.MPs said that a process “beset by confusion and misaligned expectations” and “inadequate” communication between the government a
  
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