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• ‘A generation lost at sea’: the desperate Rohingya falling prey to traffickers as they flee Bangladesh

  10-12-2025 13:00
  Barred from work and school in Bangladesh, thousands of refugees are making the perilous voyage to Malaysia by boat – with some beaten en route to extort even more moneyMajuma Begum stayed awake until 3am waiting for her son to return from the market before accepting he was not coming home. The next day he phoned to say he was on the Bangladeshi coast, waiting to begin a boat journey to Malaysia that she had desperately tried to stop him taking.It was the start of weeks of worry for the 58
  
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• Taylor Wessing in talks over US merger

  12-12-2025 13:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  City firm in discussions over tieup with Chicago-based Winston & Strawn.
  
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• Carter-Ruck partner applies for 'SLAPP' charge dismissal

  12-12-2025 12:42 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Defamation specialist 'cannot be professionally responsible for any falsity' in client's instructions, tribunal hears.
  
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• Exclusive: Profits down at Freshfields as wage bill soars

  12-12-2025 12:39 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Magic circle law firm paid its staff £105 million more than in 2024.
  
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• Legal sector defies economy’s contraction

  12-12-2025 11:46 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  October’s law firm revenues were 3.5% up on last year as GDP shrinks.
  
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• Brittany Higgins declared bankrupt after Linda Reynolds wins defamation case

  12-12-2025 07:09
  Former defence minister’s application to have former staffer bankrupted has been approved in a Western Australian courtFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBrittany Higgins has been bankrupted by her former boss, bringing Linda Reynolds one step closer to discovering where her former political staffer’s $2.4m compensation payout went.Reynolds, a former Liberal senator, launched bankruptcy proceedings in Octob
  
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• Employment tribunal orders firm to pay solicitor's full bonus

  12-12-2025 01:03 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Employment judge finds lawyer’s wages claim against his former firm succeeds.
  
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• ICE issues deportation order for Belarusian woman extradited by FBI

  11-12-2025 22:48
  Yana Leonova faces multiple charges including fraud and conspiracy for smuggling US aviation parts to RussiaAn ongoing FBI investigation into a Belarusian woman accused of smuggling US aviation parts and electronics to Russia is teetering on the brink of collapse after being caught in what one judge called a “Kafkaesque” case brought on by the Trump administration’s attempts to deport her before she faces trial.Federal prosecutors had worked for over a year to secure the extrad
  
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• Accused Charlie Kirk killer makes first in-person court appearance

  11-12-2025 21:29
  Utah judge weighs media access in prosecution of Tyler Robinson, 22, who is charged with aggravated murderThe 22-year-old Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk made his first in-person court appearance on Thursday as his attorneys push to further limit media access in the high-profile criminal case.A Utah judge is weighing the public’s right to know details in the prosecution of Tyler Robinson against his attorneys’ concerns that the swarm of media attention could interfere with
  
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• Britain threatened to cut off ICC funding over Netanyahu arrest warrant, claims prosecutor

  11-12-2025 20:08
  Karim Khan makes allegation in court submission while defending move to prosecute Israeli prime minister in 2024The British government threatened to defund the international criminal court and leave the Rome statute that set it up if it pressed ahead with plans to issue an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, the ICC’s prosecutor, has claimed.Karim Khan made the allegation in a submission to the court defending his decision to prosecute Israel’s prime minister. Continue reading
  
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• Fife nurse to appeal against ‘hugely problematic’ trans changing room ruling

  11-12-2025 19:15
  Sandie Peggie won harassment claim against NHS Fife but tribunal dismissed claims of discrimination and victimisationSandie Peggie, the Fife nurse who was suspended after she complained about sharing a female changing room with a transgender doctor, will appeal against a “hugely problematic” employment tribunal ruling, her solicitor has confirmed.On Monday, the ruling of a lengthy employment tribunal found that Peggie, who has worked as a nurse for more than 30 years, had been harass
  
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• House of Lords’ block on assisted dying bill is a big risk | Letter

  11-12-2025 18:55
  Defying the will of the House of Commons will increase calls for radical reform of the upper house sooner rather than later, say the MPs Nia Griffith, Justin Madders and Debbie Abrahams• Report: Senior opponents of assisted dying bill urge Lords not to deliberately block itWhen visitors come to parliament, it seems incongruous to explain that, in our mother of parliaments, we have a second chamber – the House of Lords – which is unelected. Those who support its existence in its
  
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• Senior opponents of assisted dying bill urge Lords not to deliberately block it

  11-12-2025 18:52
  Letter says there is danger of Lords losing legitimacy as more than 1,000 amendments tabled, delaying any voteWhat is happening to the assisted dying bill in the Lords?Letter: Lords’ block on assisted dying bill is a big riskSenior opponents of assisted dying legislation have called on peers not to hold up the progress of the bill through parliament, warning there was a serious danger of the Lords losing democratic legitimacy.Many supporters now admit the bill is in serious danger of runni
  
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• Roger Warren Evans obituary

  11-12-2025 18:21
  Pioneering barrister and social entrepreneur whose remarkable career ranged from immigration adviser to TV presenter and Labour councillorIt all began over a bottle of claret in a City wine bar in the early 2000s. Roger Warren Evans, a social entrepreneur and barrister, was lamenting with his solicitor friend Stephen Lloyd the low profile of the not-for-profit sector.As the evening wore on, the two lawyers developed the idea of creating an organisation that served the public interest but was not
  
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• Austria votes to ban headscarves in schools for girls under 14

  11-12-2025 16:34
  Law passes despite fears it will ‘normalise Islamophobia’ and fact it could be struck down by constitutional courtLawmakers in Austria have voted overwhelmingly to ban headscarves in schools for girls under the age of 14, despite concerns the legislation will deepen societal divisions and marginalise Muslims. The law could also be struck down by the country’s constitutional court.The ban was proposed earlier this year by Austria’s conservative-led government, which took o
  
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• Back to the future on client money: SRA to require annual accountants’ reports

  11-12-2025 15:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator also outlines proposals to ban individuals with significant power and control in a firm from doubling as compliance officers.
  
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• Child bride spared execution in Iran after blood money is paid

  11-12-2025 13:48
  Guardian story helped to draw attention to planned hanging of Goli Kouhkan over death of abusive husbandA child bride who was due to be executed this month in Iran over the death of her husband has had her life spared by his parents, who were paid the equivalent of £70,000 in exchange for their forgiveness.Goli Kouhkan, 25, has been on death row in Gorgan central prison in northern Iran for the past seven years. At the age of 18 she was arrested over allegedly participating in the killing
  
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• Academic versus 360 lawyer: which path should you take?

  11-12-2025 13:46 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Both paths have their merits and demand skill and commitment, but they offer very different experiences of the profession and day-to-day life in practice.
  
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• Retired solicitor convicted of sexual offences against former clients

  11-12-2025 13:06 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Crown court jury finds 72-year-old guilty of 10 of the 22 charges against him.
  
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• ECHR: 27 member states back reforms to simplify removals

  11-12-2025 13:04 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Statement calls for Article 8 to be adjusted and for clarity on 'inhuman and degrading treatment' under Article 3.
  
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• Magistrate reprimanded over trans video

  11-12-2025 12:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  JCIO says an investigation found office-holder’s actions amounted to serious misconduct.
  
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• CPS 'retention policy' leaves judge in dark over abuser's previous convictions

  11-12-2025 11:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Recorder's eyebrow was raised by a lack of detail regarding a defendant’s 2022 battery offence.
  
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• Will Australia’s social media ban survive a high court challenge from two teenagers? Most likely – here’s why | Luke Beck

  11-12-2025 04:40
  The under-16s ban is a pragmatic first step in trying to reduce the potential harm on young people of addictive products. It is not undermining the democratic processGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA constitutional challenge is pending against the government’s under-16 social media account ban. The case argues that the law contravenes the implied freedom of political communication. It is likely to fail.Two 15-year-olds, Noah Jones and Macy Neyland, backed by the
  
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• Legal aid solicitor forced to leave UK due to salary threshold

  11-12-2025 01:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Hilda Kwoffie's salary as a legal aid solicitor specialising in mental health work failed to meet £41,700-a-year visa threshold.
  
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• Legal aid barrister paid £7 an hour

  11-12-2025 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Bar chief Barbara Mills urges government to increase legal aid rates and establish a pay review body.
  
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• Will Labour’s move to limit ECHR deter the far right or alienate progressive voters?

  10-12-2025 21:03
  Previously sceptical MPs now want to modernise human rights law to prevent an overreach of the law and losing to the far rightThe sight of David Lammy and the attorney general, Richard Hermer, arriving in Strasbourg together to demand new constraints on human rights law would have been unthinkable a year ago. But as one ally says, quoting Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s seminal 1860s novel The Leopard: “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”It was th
  
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• Ethical dilemmas raised by the assisted dying bill | Letters

  10-12-2025 19:04
  Dr Sarah Davies, Sarah McCulloch, Jean Farrer and Charlie King respond to articles on the progress of the bill and the role of hospicesThe opinion piece by Dave Sowry, a board member of My Death, My Decision, highlights the risks of treating autonomy as an ethical principle in isolation (I accompanied my wife to Dignitas. The Lords’ filibustering is an insult to all like her who have suffered, 3 December). While it is sad that he was widowed early, he and his wife were able to travel and m
  
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• What does UK want to change about human rights law – and will it happen?

  10-12-2025 18:36
  Ministers in Strasbourg have been discussing the European Convention on Human Rights and how it affects migration Continue reading...
  
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• Scotland’s looser rules on assisted dying could lead to ‘death tourism’, say senior politicians

  10-12-2025 18:11
  Cross-party group of MSPs says bill going through Holyrood could attract people from elsewhere in UKSenior Scottish politicians fear there could be a risk of “death tourism” from terminally ill people travelling from other parts of the UK to end their lives in Scotland.A cross-party group of MSPs, including the deputy first minister, Kate Forbes, said the looser controls on eligibility written into an assisted dying bill for Scotland could attract people who are unhappy with stricter
  
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• Mother’s use of AI ‘entirely understandable’, Court of Appeal finds

  10-12-2025 16:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord Justice Baker, with whom Lord Justice Cobb and Lord Justice Miles agreed, absolved litigant in person of any intention to mislead family court.
  
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