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• Administrative failures create 'inaccessible justice' for LiPs

  06-02-2026 01:24 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Research from Blind Justice, a community interest company, found 92% of the cases it analysed had missing or unprocessed documents.
  
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• Software failure kills decade-long SFO probe

  16-02-2026 01:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lawyers raise questions over if SFO is fit for purpose following latest admission.
  
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• Expelled law student convicted of bomb hoax to university

  16-02-2026 01:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ’Angry and frustrated’ defendant told court his phone calls were requests for assistance to get himself re-instated.
  
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• Court orders on sibling contact

  16-02-2026 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The principles that govern a child’s post-adoption contact with his or her birth family have developed from a position that there should be a complete break at the point of adoption. The Adoption Act 1976 outlawed private adoption agreements, making adoptions the responsibility of local authorities. It also allowed for ...
  
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• Animol review – gritty young offenders drama challenges conventional machismo

  14-02-2026 19:45
  Institutional menace and an idealistic take on redemption sit side-by-side in Top Boy actor Ashley Walters’ empathic and occasionally over-earnest filmThe lawless brutality of a young offender institution is the setting for this British movie written by Marching Powder’s Nick Love and directed by Ashley Walters. It’s a place where terrified newbies realise they can survive only by abandoning their innocence and decency, and submitting to the gang authority of a psycho top G, na
  
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• Ban on Palestine Action ‘massively backfired’, says group’s co-founder

  14-02-2026 13:04
  Huda Ammori calls for proscription to be lifted after high court finds it to be very serious interference with protest rightsThe co-founder of Palestine Action has said the ban on the group “massively backfired” and called for its proscription to be suspended after the high court found it to be unlawful.Three senior judges ruled on Friday that the ban was disproportionate and constituted very serious interference with the rights to protest and free speech. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘My husband burned down our house – then the bank threatened repossession’

  14-02-2026 08:00
  A family struggled to rebuild their lives after an abusive marriage ended in tragedy and financial ruinFamily life ended for Francesca Onody on a late summer evening in 2022 when her abusive husband doused their cottage with petrol as police arrived to arrest him. She and her children escaped seconds before the building exploded. Her husband Malcolm Baker died in the blaze.That night, Onody lost her husband, her home, her pets and her possessions. Continue reading...
  
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• Don Lemon pleads not guilty to civil rights charges after Minnesota anti-ICE protest

  13-02-2026 21:15
  Former CNN anchor said he was working as a journalist when he was arrested at protest during church serviceFormer CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal civil rights charges connected to his coverage of a protest at a Minnesota church where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official is a pastor. Four others also pleaded not guilty in the case.Lemon did not comment to reporters as he entered the courthouse accompanied by his attorney Jo
  
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• UK mother separated from children for years has ‘draconian’ order overturned

  13-02-2026 19:01
  Flawed evidence by psychologist Melanie Gill was used to remove children from woman in 2019A mother who did not see her children for nearly six years after they were taken away by the family courts has been reunited with her son after the flawed evidence used in her case was overturned.An assessment by an unregulated psychologist led to “extraordinary” and “draconian” orders that effectively terminated her relationship with her children, lawyers told the high court. Conti
  
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• Owen Jones on Palestine Action high court win | The Latest

  13-02-2026 18:27
  The co-founder of Palestine Action has won a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws. Palestine Action was the first direct action protest group to be proscribed. The decision was widely condemned and was defied by a civil disobedience campaign, during which more than 2,000 people have been arrested. From July last year, being a member of – or showing support for – the group became an offence punishable by up to 14 years in pr
  
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• Scottish Labour leader says he doesn’t regret calling for Starmer to quit – UK politics live

  13-02-2026 17:30
  Anas Sarwar said that he stood by what he said when he announced on Monday that he wanted the prime minister to stand downThe Equality and Human Rights Commission has welcomed a high court ruling defending the interim guidance it issued to organisations about the implications of the supreme court judgement saying that, when the Equality Act refers to sex, it means biological sex.The guidance – described as an “interim update” – was controversial because it was seen as ove
  
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• High Court dismisses JR over EHRC trans guidance

  13-02-2026 16:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lead claimant Good Law Project told that despite 'sincere interest in the subject matter' it did not have standing.
  
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• The Palestine Action ruling vindicates the courageous – and shames the complicit | Owen Jones

  13-02-2026 16:29
  The home secretary has vowed to fight the judgment, but she and the government are on the wrong side of historyThis is a day of humiliation for those who facilitated Israel’s genocide in Gaza – and a moment of vindication for those who stood against “the crime of crimes”. It is worth underlining what the high court in London has today ruled to be unlawful: our government’s decision to place the direct-action group Palestine Action on the same legal footing as al-Qai
  
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• Opponents of Palestine Action ban celebrate court ruling that proscription is unlawful – video

  13-02-2026 15:56
  People opposed to the UK ban on Palestine Action celebrated after the group won a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws. Palestine Action was the first direct action protest group to be proscribed under anti-terrorism law, which categorised it alongside the likes of Islamic State. The government decision attracted widespread condemnation as well as a civil disobedience campaign defying the ban, during which more than 2,000 people have be
  
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• Good Law Project loses challenge to interim EHRC advice on single-sex spaces

  13-02-2026 14:32
  Judge rejects argument that advice is legally flawed and excludes trans people from services they have long usedThe Good Law Project (GLP) has lost its legal challenge to interim advice released by the UK equalities watchdog that in effect said transgender people should be banned from using bathroom and changing facilities according to their lived gender.The advice from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which has since been withdrawn from its website, was published soon after the
  
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• Firm launches scholarship in memory of much-loved late colleague

  13-02-2026 13:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Jenny Lewis spent more than 10 years working her way up to a leading role in firm.
  
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• Private equity house shuns sale option to hold onto firm

  13-02-2026 13:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Fletchers Group announces long-term backing from an affiliate of owner Sun Capital.
  
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• Private equity house shuns sale option to hold on to fast-growing firm

  13-02-2026 13:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Fletchers Group announces long-term backing from an affiliate of owner Sun Capital.
  
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• Profits surge at global outfit Kennedys

  13-02-2026 12:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Firm is targeting 'ambitious goal' of $1 billion in worldwide revenue by 2030.
  
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• Judges slash dieselgate costs amid 'over-lawyering' concerns

  13-02-2026 11:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Claimants were on the 'wrong side of the line’ in original budgets costs management judgment notes.
  
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• UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule

  13-02-2026 11:07
  Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism lawsThe co-founder of Palestine Action has won a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws.The proscription of Palestine Action, which categorised it alongside the likes of Islamic State, was the first of a direct action protest group and attracted widespread condemnation as well as a civil disobedience campaign defying the ban, durin
  
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• Top lawyer at Goldman Sachs resigns after revelation of Epstein relationship

  13-02-2026 03:51
  Emails show Kathy Ruemmler had close ties to convicted sexual abuser she called ‘Uncle Jeffrey’Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer, Kathy Ruemmler, has announced her resignation after emails in the latest tranche of Epstein files revealed she had a close relationship with the convicted child sex offender, whom she called “Uncle Jeffrey”.Ruemmler said on Thursday she would step down as the bank’s chief legal officer and general counsel at the end of June. Continue readin
  
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• New blow to SRA as solicitor cleared of 'SLAPP' behaviour awarded costs

  13-02-2026 01:42 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court orders SRA to make an interim payment of £400,000 ‘as soon as possible’ to media lawyer.
  
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• Trusted cashier barred over £200,000 theft from firm

  13-02-2026 01:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Four-year misconduct was only uncovered when rogue cashier went on annual leave.
  
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• Firm's trusted cashier barred over £200,000 theft

  13-02-2026 01:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Four-year misconduct was only uncovered when rogue cashier went on annual leave.
  
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• SRA makes emergency compensation payments to PM Law clients

  12-02-2026 16:57 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Intervention spanning 24 offices could be the biggest ever undertaken by the regulator.
  
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• MoJ cautions against proposed 'drill music' safeguard

  12-02-2026 13:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lawyers concerned that creative and artistic expression is being misused as evidence in criminal proceedings.
  
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• Client to pay costs after failing to cut lawyer's bill by 20%

  12-02-2026 11:41 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Costs judge finds the one-fifth rule for assessment costs should apply, despite £28,000 reduction.
  
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• Record number of solicitors call mental health charity

  12-02-2026 10:26 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ‘Need for trusted, accessible and sector-specific support has never been greater’, LawCare chief says.
  
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• Complaint numbers rocketing to record highs

  12-02-2026 10:18 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal ombudsman figures likely to exceed worst-case projections for the current year.
  
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