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• Class action looms over LAA cyber attack

  25-11-2025 13:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Liverpool law firm preparing group litigation order seeking compensation for legal aid applicants whose data was compromised.
  
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• US judge blocks Trump administration from deporting UK anti-disinformation campaigner

  26-12-2025 12:24
  Imran Ahmed of Center for Countering Digital Hate files complaint against senior Trump alliesA US judge has blocked US authorities from detaining or deporting a British anti-disinformation campaigner who is among five European nationals targeted by the Trump administration because of moves to push back against hate speech and misinformation.Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), filed a complaint on Thursday against senior Trump allies including the se
  
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• Into the void: how Trump killed international law

  25-12-2025 14:00
  The rules-based global order, its institutions and value system face a crisis of legitimacy and credibility as the US turns away‘The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci once wrote. “And the new world struggles to be born.” In such interregnums, the Italian Marxist philosopher suggested, “every act, even the smallest, may acquire decisive weight”.In 2025, western leaders appeared convinced they – and we – were living through one such transitional p
  
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• UK, Canada and Germany condemn Israel for 19 new West Bank settlements

  24-12-2025 23:09
  Fourteen countries, also including France, Italy, Ireland and Spain, say actions ‘violate international law and risk fuelling instability’Fourteen countries, including Britain, Canada and Germany, have condemned the Israeli security cabinet’s approval of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying they violate international law and risk fuelling instability.Israel approved a proposal last Sunday for the new Jewish settlements, which brings the recent total to 69, accor
  
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• Romanian judge’s sanction over Facebook posts breached human rights

  24-12-2025 11:12 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A 'reasonable balance' needs to be struck between judges' involvement in society and their impartiality, ECtHR rules.
  
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• Employee-owned firm reports profit boost in first full year

  24-12-2025 01:24 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Hudgell accounts reveal 98% of share capital was sold to ownership trust for £14.1 million.
  
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• A heavy moral burden as Palestine Action hunger strikers risk death | Letters

  23-12-2025 18:49
  Dr David Nicholl and Dr John Kalk discuss medical ethics in relation to the care of prisoners on hunger strike, and Dr Jonathan Fluxman calls on Labour to act now before the worst happensWe are not involved in the medical management of the Palestine Action hunger strikers, though we have experience of previous such protests (Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy, 22 December). The ethical issues are well established: respect for consent, confidentiality, ass
  
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• Top judges join call for England and Wales to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14

  23-12-2025 13:43
  Children can be investigated by police, charged with a crime and put on trial from age 10, the joint lowest age in EuropeThe former president of the supreme court Lady Hale is urging ministers to change the law so that children as young as 10 can no longer be charged as adults.Along with Lady Butler-Sloss, previously the highest-ranking female judge in England and Wales, she has signed an amendment to the crime and policing bill to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14. Continue reading
  
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• Manchester Arena attack: Firms secure settlement for families and survivors

  23-12-2025 13:04 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law firms say this is a moment to acknowledge mistakes that were made leading up to terrorist bombing.
  
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• 'Comatose' international claim escapes strike-out

  23-12-2025 11:36 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  'Unilateral decision to do nothing' amounted to abuse of process, judge finds - but refuses application for strike-out.
  
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• Lammy announces £20m for free legal support

  23-12-2025 09:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Justice secretary says three-year grant will 'put the sector on a sustainable footing’.
  
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• The best of the long read in 2025

  23-12-2025 06:00
  Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the yearVictor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sells millions. Has he become a Kremlin apologist? Continue reading...
  
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• Prosecutions for strangulation in England and Wales increase sixfold in three years

  23-12-2025 01:01
  CPS says new law marked ‘significant shift in recognising serious nature’ of offence, often linked to domestic abuse and sexual assault The number of suspects charged for strangulation and suffocation in England and Wales has increased almost sixfold in the three years since the offence was first introduced, Crown Prosecution Service data has revealed.Brought in under the Domestic Abuse Act, which came into force in 2022, the legislation closed a gap in the existing law, giving court
  
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• More lawyers take swipe at Treasury plans for single AML supervisor

  22-12-2025 13:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government plans to remove AML regulation from SRA have gone down badly with lawyers.
  
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• Gallery: Law firms going the extra mile at Christmas

  22-12-2025 13:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Showcasing firms spreading the festive cheer.
  
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• LAA scales back contingency measures following cyber attack

  22-12-2025 13:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal aid providers told to move away from email as new arrangements come into force.
  
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• Whiplash reforms hindered access to justice, Law Society says

  22-12-2025 12:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chancery Lane responds to post-implementation review of previous government's reforms to claims process.
  
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• Pogust Goodhead seeks £113.5m interim costs for dam collapse case

  22-12-2025 12:22 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  'The scale of funding has obviously been, and continues to be, huge and no funder has unlimited resources,' High Court hears.
  
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• Supreme Court upholds CAT over £2.7bn collective action

  22-12-2025 09:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court of Appeal had no proper basis for interfering with the tribunal’s assessment of the strength of the opt-out claim.
  
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• UK leaving European convention on human rights would be a mistake, equalities chief warns

  22-12-2025 09:31
  Mary-Ann Stephenson defends convention as ‘really important’ and warns against demonisation of migrantsTaking the UK out of a European human rights treaty to quell rightwing anger over immigration would be a mistake, the new head of Britain’s equalities watchdog has said, as she warned against the demonisation of people who migrate to the UK.Mary-Ann Stephenson, who became chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in December, said the European convention on human right
  
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• Ex-solicitor disbarred - years after being struck off the roll for the same misconduct

  22-12-2025 01:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ‘Misleading the court and others in legal proceedings is a serious failure,’ says Bar Standards Board spokesperson.
  
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• How the BBC can resist ‘entrumpification’ | Letters

  21-12-2025 18:08
  Enough of the orchestrated outrage – the BBC needs to be clear that there’s no systemic dishonesty at play, writes Anthony Lawton. Plus letters from Michele Ryan and Mike PenderYour editorial (16 December) rightly calls for collective resistance to Donald Trump’s assault on the BBC. But it is important to name what we are witnessing: “entrumpification” – a political technology that attacks democratic institutions where they are strongest, not weakest.The BBC m
  
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• Thanks to Donald Trump, 2025 was a good year … for white-collar criminals

  21-12-2025 15:00
  Why would the Trump administration choose to set aside consequences from criminals whose actions threaten the stability of the broader American economy?When Islamic State needed to move and disguise its money, it turned, US prosecutors said in 2023, to the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange: Binance. So too did al-Qaida, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which used the platform to help bankroll its operations in the years leading up to the 7 October attack in Israel. Binance was no
  
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• Met using outdated powers to police pro-Palestine protests, say legal experts

  20-12-2025 15:54
  Lawyers argue ‘cumulative disruption’ regulations were quashed in May and should therefore not be usedThe Metropolitan police have been using powers they no longer have to crack down on pro-Palestine protests, according to legal experts.Based on evidence obtained by the Guardian and Liberty Investigates, legal experts said officers had imposed restrictions on at least two protests based on their “cumulative disruption” since their power to do so was quashed by the court o
  
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• The Guardian view on the Palestine Action hunger strikers: the government is trying to ignore this protest | Editorial

  19-12-2025 19:30
  Doctors have warned that the lives of these prisoners are now in danger. Pretending this is not happening is not good enoughIn 1981, IRA and other republican prisoners went on hunger strike in Northern Ireland, demanding the restoration of their political status. Ten would die; extraordinarily, their leader, Bobby Sands, had been elected as an MP by the time of his death. Margaret Thatcher took a hardline public stance. But by the end, behind the scenes, the government was looking for an exit, a
  
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• Society members back SGM threshold proposal

  19-12-2025 11:38 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ballot was called after defeat of a proposal to raise the number of signatures required to call special general meeting.
  
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• Compliance officer barred for lying about working from home

  19-12-2025 11:19 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Employee spent a week misleading colleagues about whether he had come in to office.
  
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• Hillsborough bill 'needs fine tuning'

  19-12-2025 10:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal aid concerns raised at parliamentary meeting on Public Office (Accountability) Bill.
  
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• Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader in record transatlantic merger

  19-12-2025 08:06 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Largest law firm combination in history will create top-five practice with £2.7 billion turnover and more than 3,000 lawyers.
  
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• Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’

  19-12-2025 07:00
  Exclusive Guardian investigation finds companies set up by people sanctioned by US hired Colombian fighters for Rapid Support Forces, widely suspected of war crimes in SudanClose to Tottenham Hotspur’s shiny football stadium in London is a squat, nondescript block of flats. It holds a grim secret beyond the unremarkable beige brickwork – a cramped, second-floor apartment in the British capital, linked to murderous atrocities unfolding 3,000 miles south.The one-bedroom flat off north
  
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