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• Paper systems to blame for prison release fiasco says Lammy

  07-11-2025 13:53 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  'Specialist team of engineers, analysts and designers will be deployed to roll out cutting-edge technology,' lord chancellor says.
  
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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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• Mother’s use of AI ‘entirely understandable’, CoA 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 the family court.
  
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• Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all | Steve Valdez-Symonds

  10-12-2025 16:25
  The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s crueltySteve Valdez-Symonds is refugee and migrant rights director at Amnesty UKWhen Keir Starmer and Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, argue that asylum protections must be rewritten for a new “era”, they are not simply adjusting policy. They are reshaping the moral ground our societies stand on.Their message is cl
  
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• SRA intervenes into failed north east firm

  10-12-2025 15:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator cites 'reason to suspect dishonesty' on the part of a manager in connection with two other firms.
  
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• SRA intervenes into collapsed north-east firm

  10-12-2025 15:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator cites 'reason to suspect dishonesty' on the part of a manager in connection with two other firms.
  
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• UK joins call for Europe’s human rights laws to be ‘constrained’

  10-12-2025 15:13
  Britain aligns with some of Europe’s hardline governments in calling for change to allow Rwanda-style migration dealsAnalysis: Can weakening human rights ever protect them? Labour’s gamble raises fears on the leftThe UK has joined some of Europe’s hardline governments in calling for human rights laws to be “constrained” to allow Rwanda-style migration deals with third countries and more foreign criminals to be deported.Twenty-seven of the 46 Council of Europe member
  
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• Bob Vylan to sue Ireland’s RTÉ for defamation over Glastonbury coverage

  10-12-2025 13:11
  Legal action alleges Irish broadcaster defamed group by claiming they led antisemitic chants at festival in JuneThe British punk-rap duo Bob Vylan have launched defamation proceedings against the Irish broadcaster RTÉ over its coverage of their performance at Glastonbury.The legal action alleges Ireland’s national broadcaster defamed the group by claiming they led antisemitic chants at the festival last June. Continue reading...
  
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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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• Former solicitor appointed Parole Board vice chair

  10-12-2025 12:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Her Honour Anne Molyneux was admitted in 1983 before her career took her to the judiciary.
  
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• Articles 3 and 8 in spotlight as UK seeks ECHR reform

  10-12-2025 11:37 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord chancellor and attorney general join move to 'modernise' European Convention on Human Rights.
  
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• Clients want real-time updates and named points of contact, watchdog's research finds

  10-12-2025 10:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Consumer panel finds channel of service is considered less important than the quality, as expectations shift.
  
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• Clients want real-time updates and named points of contact, research finds

  10-12-2025 10:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Consumer panel finds channel of service is considered less important than the quality.
  
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• US lawyer population continues to rise

  10-12-2025 07:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Country has 1.37 million practising lawyers, 58% of who are male.
  
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• Court of Appeal dismisses psychotherapist's bid for family court anonymity

  10-12-2025 01:37 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Warby say the witness had ‘fair opportunity’ to instruct her lawyers and complain through them.
  
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• SRA issues scam alert after website mimics claims firm

  10-12-2025 01:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Firm boss says he is grateful to SRA for bringing issue to light.
  
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