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• Data page - April 2015

  16-04-2015 13:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
  
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• AI pioneer brands 'probabilistic' tech as unsuitable for law

  27-02-2026 12:04 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Use of generative artificial intelligence in legal services has come under attack - from the founder of an AI-based law firm.
  
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• 'Game changing' AI listing to help clear court backlog

  27-02-2026 11:49 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Criminal Courts Improvement Group hears from the lady chief justice and courts minister Sarah Sackman.
  
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• In depth: Mazur landmark appeal concludes

  27-02-2026 10:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Julia Mazur’s spouse criticises law firms and regulators for ‘losing sight of the interests of the public’ amid fight to decide who can conduct litigation.
  
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• Court of Appeal hears from Mazur

  27-02-2026 10:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Julia Mazur and her husband Jerome Stuart both gave evidence, as this week’s landmark hearing reached its conclusion.
  
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• Court of Appeal hears from Julia Mazur

  27-02-2026 10:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Mazur and her husband Jerome Stuart both gave evidence, as this week’s landmark hearing reached its conclusion.
  
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• The silencer and the White House Farm murders: is this the evidence that could free Jeremy Bamber?

  27-02-2026 06:00
  He has been in prison for 41 years for killing five members of his family – despite no DNA linking him to the crime. New analysis of the crime scene photographs for the Guardian suggests the prosecution’s central argument may have been wrongOn 7 August 1985, five people were found dead at White House Farm in Essex, England: 28-year-old Sheila Caffell (familiarly known as Bambi); her six-year-old twin sons Daniel and Nicholas; and her adoptive parents, June and Nevill Bamber. All five
  
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• Land Registry tells PM Law clients to quickly instruct new solicitors

  27-02-2026 01:56 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  HM Land Registry acknowledges complexity of land registration in guidance for clients of firm that suddenly closed.
  
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• ‘How can I start again at 68?’ Maria has spent 50 years in the UK – and is fighting deportation

  26-02-2026 14:19
  She left the Netherlands for Britain in the 1970s at just 17. Now, after receiving a short suspended sentence, she faces removal to a country she hasn’t lived in for five decades or visited since 1999Last December, a letter from the Home Office dropped through Maria’s door. When she read it, she screamed. At 68, she lives with her disabled partner, Tom, who she cares for, in a rental home in west London, and has been resident in the UK for almost 50 years. The letter said the home se
  
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• Jury curbs could price defendants out of legal aid

  26-02-2026 13:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Crown court has a higher income threshold for legal aid eligibility than the magistrates' court.
  
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• Jersey approves bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults

  26-02-2026 12:42
  Assembly members voted on Wednesday in favour of the bill, which will need royal assent before it becomes lawJersey’s parliament has given final approval to a bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults who live on the island.Members of the States Assembly voted by 32 to 16 on Thursday in favour of the bill, which will now need royal assent before it becomes law. Continue reading...
  
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• Witnesses and experts could be required to come clean on AI

  26-02-2026 12:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  New rules by the Civil Justice Council propose that reports submitted to court may need to be accompanied by declarations they are not generated with artificial intelligence.
  
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• Magistrate given formal advice for 'shouting'

  26-02-2026 11:34 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Office holder denied shouting but said his behaviour had been ‘out of character’, JCIO says.
  
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• Mazur Day Three: SRA submits decision should stand; Julia Mazur addresses court

  26-02-2026 11:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Our minute-to-minute coverage from the Royal Courts of Justice.
  
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• LIVE: Mazur Day Three: SRA to submit that decision should stand

  26-02-2026 11:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  10.45am: Coleman says it is pretty simple in practice: authorised people must 'direct and control' the performance of litigation. Unauthorised staff can assist but not direct or control cases. They can prepare a claim form but the authorised person must approve it and must adopt it as their own work ...
  
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• LIVE: Mazur Day Three: SRA submits that decision should stand; Mazur addresses court

  26-02-2026 11:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
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• LIVE: Mazur Day Three: SRA submits that decision should stand

  26-02-2026 11:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
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• LIVE: Mazur Day Three: SRA submits decision should stand; Julia Mazur addresses court

  26-02-2026 11:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
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• Tick-box error not fatal to costs bill, Court of Appeal rules

  26-02-2026 01:18 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judge rules that bill can still be valid in spite of minor defect on the costs form.
  
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• CPS issues new guidance on ‘honour’-based and dowry abuse

  26-02-2026 01:01
  Updated guidance from Crown Prosecution Service covers forms of spiritual and immigration abuse for first timeThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has published new guidance for its lawyers to help tackle “honour”-based abuse, with spiritual and immigration abuse included for the first time.The guidance was updated to reflect growing concerns around evolving forms of abuse and to tackle what the CPS described as “emerging harmful practices”. Continue reading...
  
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• Judge rules Trump deportation flights to ‘third countries’ unlawful

  26-02-2026 00:21
  But judge agreed to suspend decision for 15 days to give White House time to appeal latest rulingThe Trump administration’s latest policy of deporting immigrants to “third countries” to which they have no ties is unlawful and must be set aside, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday in a case that already reached the nation’s highest court.US district judge Brian E Murphy in Massachusetts agreed to suspend his decision for 15 days, giving the government time to appeal his lat
  
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• Lammy unveils Courts and Tribunals Bill

  25-02-2026 18:50 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord chancellor promises 'serious reform and practical modernisation to get cases heard faster'.
  
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• Role of Scotland’s top law officer questioned after ‘bombshell’ over Peter Murrell charges

  25-02-2026 15:52
  Lord advocate Dorothy Bain informed first minister of embezzlement charges against former SNP chief executive a year before they were made publicSerious doubts have been raised about the dual role of Scotland’s top law officer after it emerged that the first minister was informed of criminal charges against Peter Murrell nearly a year before they were made public.The lord advocate, Dorothy Bain, who acts as Scotland’s chief prosecutor as well as the government’s principal legal
  
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• UK suspension of refugee family reunion scheme to be challenged in high court

  25-02-2026 15:22
  Judge allows Safe Passage International to launch judicial review of halting of right to bring in children and partnersThe Home Office’s controversial decision to suspend the right of refugees to bring their children and partners to the UK is to face a legal challenge in the high court, the Guardian can disclose.Safe Passage International, a charity working with unaccompanied children and refugees, has been granted permission to launch a judicial review of the decision to halt refugee fami
  
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• Ex-solicitor jailed for 13 years over cell assaults

  25-02-2026 14:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lawyer was ‘supposed to help defendants navigate the criminal justice system, not sexually abuse them in the midst of it’.
  
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• Devon defence lawyer who abused vulnerable clients jailed for 13 years

  25-02-2026 14:45
  Alan Harris, 72, assaulted children and adults in police and court cells over 27-year periodA criminal defence lawyer who sexually abused vulnerable clients as young as 14 over almost three decades has been jailed for 13 years.Alan Harris, 72, from Plymouth, Devon, assaulted children and adults during consultations in police and court cells, targeting victims he judged would not be believed if they revealed what he had done. Continue reading...
  
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• The Taliban are burning musical instruments in the name of morality. It is an assault on all culture

  25-02-2026 14:31
  The sounds of Afghan history are being erased to prevent music’s ‘moral corruption’ of the Afghan people. We can help keep Afghanistan’s music alive. Plus, Eliane Radigue’s deep listening, and the brilliance of Sinners’s scoreThe horrors of the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan are all-encompassing. New laws that effectively legalise domestic abuse means that every woman in the country now lives with the threat of state-sanctioned violence. In the context of
  
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• A Hollywood ‘heir’ made horrific abuse claims against four industry titans. How did he end up in prison?

  25-02-2026 13:00
  Rovier Carrington thought his cases against MTV and Paramount executives should have been the biggest of the #MeToo era. Instead, they raised unsettling questions about victimhoodOne unseasonably warm afternoon in February 2023, in a very brown New York City courtroom, Rovier Carrington did the inconceivable: he admitted to a lie. On that day, the aspiring screenwriter told a federal judge that he had altered evidence to support his legal claim of being systematically raped and blacklisted by a
  
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• A Hollywood ‘heir’ levied horrific abuse claims against four industry titans. How did he end up in prison?

  25-02-2026 13:00
  Rovier Carrington thought his cases against MTV and Paramount executives should have been the biggest of the #MeToo era. Instead, they raised unsettling questions about victimhoodOne unseasonably warm afternoon in February 2023, in a very brown New York City courtroom, Rovier Carrington did the inconceivable: he admitted to a lie. On that day, the aspiring screenwriter told a federal judge that he had altered evidence to support his legal claim of being systematically raped and blacklisted by a
  
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• Campaign calls on solicitors to share their knowledge in schools

  25-02-2026 12:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Big Legal Lesson helps pupils aged five to 18 to understand the rule of law.
  
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