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• Migration bill amendment modifies judicial 'safeguard'

  02-06-2023 10:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord chancellor would be granted power to make tribunal procedure rules so government can keep to desired timetable.
  
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• 'Like Russia and Belarus' ECHR argument a fallacy, thinktank argues

  20-01-2026 18:09 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  'It’s a "Here be dragons” argument, devoid of serious meaning', writes Labour former lord chancellor Jack Straw.
  
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• No date in the diary for non-judges to hear asylum appeals

  20-01-2026 17:34 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  New body of professional adjudicators announced last summer to clear backlog of appeals.
  
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• Costs budgeting in group litigation

  20-01-2026 15:57 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
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• Solicitor banned for certifying documents online

  20-01-2026 15:45 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Director of certification service claimed that documents uploaded to website counted as originals.
  
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• Solicitor's failed GDPR case costs him over £500,000

  20-01-2026 13:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Practitioner ordered to pay costs both to a costs judge and The Transcription Agency.
  
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• Zahawi solicitor overturns SDT's conviction over 'without prejudice' email

  20-01-2026 13:31 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Decision was ‘insufficiently analysed and reasoned, vitiated by misdirection and error of law, and unfair’, High Court rules.
  
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• Government seeks ‘tougher’ regulation of claims firms by SRA

  20-01-2026 10:25 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Justice minister says consumers should receive clear and timely information about funding arrangements.
  
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• ‘There can be no exclusions’: how Hillsborough law hit a roadblock

  20-01-2026 07:00
  What was meant to be a triumph for Keir Starmer has become mired in disagreement with victims’ familiesIt was meant to be a triumphant moment. After almost 16 months of briefing from Whitehall sources that Keir Starmer would never be able to keep his promise to introduce the Hillsborough law, the prime minister was introduced at the Labour conference by Margaret Aspinall.Aspinall, whose son James, 18, was one of the 97 people killed in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, has with other bereave
  
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• 'Bona vacantia' list back online - but fraud concerns remain

  20-01-2026 01:02 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Suspension of the official list of unclaimed estates followed allegations that information on the list had helped criminals create fake wills.
  
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• Private investigators must be trained to spot signs of domestic abuse and stalking | Letter

  19-01-2026 18:53
  It is horrifying that victims and survivors of abuse can be traced by someone with no licence or training who is willing to take a perpetrator’s money, writes Noor Da SilvaI was grateful to read the Guardian investigation revealing how perpetrators of abuse are using private investigators to further harm by proxy, exposing the unseen threat faced by victims and their supporters (You feel violated’: how stalkers outsource abuse to private investigators, 11 January).As the manager of a
  
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• Costs slashed and appeal permission refused in Brazil dam claim

  19-01-2026 16:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judge acknowleges ‘dedicated work by many lawyers and experts' but describes costs as 'extraordinarily high'.
  
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• Pepper spray use at young offender institutions in England ruled legal

  19-01-2026 15:07
  Howard League charity fails in battle to halt government’s decision to make Pava available to prison staffAn attempt to halt the use of pepper spray on children held in young offender institutions (YOIs) has failed after the high court ruled on Monday that the weapon’s rollout was lawful.The Howard League for Penal Reform challenged the Labour government’s decision to authorise the use of Pava, a synthetic form of pepper spray, in three prisons in England holding boys as young
  
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• Unclaimed £3.7m from class action to fund free legal advice

  19-01-2026 12:19 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Access to Justice Foundation establishes new grants programme to redistribute unclaimed damages to frontline advice organisations.
  
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• Profits climb as ULaw adapts to 'fragmentation' of solicitor training

  19-01-2026 10:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  University of Law has nearly 4% of the undergraduate law market and is capitalising on the popularity of apprenticeships.
  
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• Solicitor who lied to his firm about having cancer struck off

  19-01-2026 09:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found lawyer ‘compounded his initial lie with further acts of dishonesty’.
  
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• City solicitor who lied about having cancer struck off

  19-01-2026 09:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found lawyer ‘compounded his initial lie with further acts of dishonesty’.
  
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• Local government body will not intervene in Mazur

  19-01-2026 07:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lawyers in Local Government says unique role of members cannot be properly addressed in appeal.
  
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• Council lawyers will not intervene in Mazur

  19-01-2026 07:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lawyers in Local Government says unique role of members cannot be properly addressed in appeal.
  
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• In depth: Kirsty Brimelow KC’s priorities as bar chair

  19-01-2026 01:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A fairer allocation of briefs to women barristers is one of Kirsty Brimelow KC’s 12 priorities as bar chair. Protecting lawyers from abuse and intimidation is also high on her agenda.
  
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• The trials of setting up David Lammy’s ‘swift courts’ | Letters

  18-01-2026 18:44
  Adjustments to the plans to limit jury trials face a major obstacle, writes Janet Carter; plus letters from Kirsty Brimelow KC and Paul Keleher KCYour article on a possible U-turn for magistrates to sit with a judge in a proposed “swift court” throws up a major obstacle (Plans to limit jury trials in England and Wales may be watered down after backlash, 12 January). Where are these additional magistrates going to come from? The magistracy is the linchpin of our criminal justice syste
  
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• For all the talk of Australian values our rights as citizens and humans remain fragile | Julianne Schultz

  17-01-2026 20:00
  We remain the only liberal democracy not to have adopted its own constitutional or statutory bill of rightsThe very idea that all human beings have inalienable rights, and that humanity is distinctive and precious, is under serious assault.This year threatens to be the one that makes or breaks the unique moral commitment to human rights that has underpinned, even when flawed, the global order for the past 80 years.Julianne Schultz is the author of The Idea of Australia Continue reading...
  
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• Senior president of tribunals warns of increased abuse towards judges

  17-01-2026 10:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord Justice Dingemans also reveals a potential date for the Home Office’s plans for a body of assessors in asylum appeals.
  
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• Judge to protect noncitizen academics involved in case from ‘authoritarian’ Trump

  16-01-2026 20:32
  Reagan appointee moves to protect those challenging arrest and deportation of pro-Palestinian activistsA federal judge described Donald Trump as an “authoritarian” and accused his administration of “an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people” in its aggressive pursuit of non-US citizen, pro-Palestinian activists on American college campuses.US district judge William Young, who was appointed by the Republican president Ronald Reagan, said on Thursday that he
  
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• Employment judge sanctioned for raising his voice during hearing

  16-01-2026 17:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said the judge apologised ‘if he had appeared sharp’ but denied shouting.
  
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• Employment judge created 'hostile environment' in hearing

  16-01-2026 17:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said the judge apologised ‘if he had appeared sharp’ but denied shouting.
  
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• Sacked TikTok workers in UK launch legal action over ‘union busting’

  16-01-2026 16:04
  Moderators accuse social media firm of unfair dismissal after it fired hundreds in UK just before vote to form unionTikTok moderators have accused the social media company of “oppressive and intimidating” union busting after it fired hundreds of workers in the UK, beginning the process just before they were due to vote on forming a union.The moderators wanted to establish a collective bargaining unit to protect themselves from the personal costs of checking extreme and violent conten
  
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• Female nurses win employment case over NHS changing-room use by trans colleague

  16-01-2026 15:37
  Judge finds Durham trust violated nurses’ dignity and created intimidating environment by allowing use of single-sex spaceA group of nurses who complained about a trans colleague using single-sex changing rooms at work suffered harassment, an employment tribunal judge has ruled.The judge found the nurses’ dignity was violated and they encountered “a hostile, intimidating, humiliating and degrading environment” at work. Continue reading...
  
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• Wave of top judge departures continues as Lord Reed to step down

  16-01-2026 15:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord Reed is already the longest serving president of the Supreme Court.
  
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• Exodus of top judges continues as Lord Reed announces retirement

  16-01-2026 15:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord Reed, already the longest serving president of the Supreme Court, will step down in 2027.
  
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