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• Scope of privilege raised in Mirror Group hacking case

  31-05-2023 10:04 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Evidence from the solicitor was interrupted due to concerns about client privilege.
  
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• Fare dodger employs Mazur defence to challenge private prosecutions

  17-12-2025 11:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Charles Brohiri alleges the use of a lay prosecutor by Govia Thameslink Railway was unlawful.
  
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• Mixed response from profession to ombudsman budget rise

  17-12-2025 11:17 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Consumer panel reluctantly backs 12.1% rise - but Law Society says complaints handler should concentrate on core statutory function.
  
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• Drunken kiss not misconduct, SDT finds

  17-12-2025 01:03 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Workplace culture 'lacked appropriate safeguards and encouraged excessive drinking'.
  
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• Government promises legislation to end PACCAR ‘limbo’

  17-12-2025 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  New bill will clarify that litigation funding agreements are not damages based agreements, minister says
  
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• Government promises legislation to end PACCAR ‘limbo’

  17-12-2025 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  New bill will clarify that litigation funding agreements are not damages based agreements, minister says
  
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• Law Society to intervene in Court of Appeal Mazur challenge

  16-12-2025 17:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  September ruling on conduct of litigation has caused significant disruption in the legal sector.
  
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• Claims firm posts huge losses but points to £300m litigation pipeline

  16-12-2025 15:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Auditors raise concerns about Barings’ financial position but Manchester firm still upbeat about future.
  
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• 'We cannot shirk reform': Lammy refuses to budge on jury trials

  16-12-2025 14:25 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord chancellor defends Leveson review and says Crown court backlog will exceed 100,000 by the time of the next election without reform.
  
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• Drop 'SLAPP' assault, top media lawyer urges SRA

  16-12-2025 12:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator's campaign against abusive 'lawfare' suffers two tribunal defeats in a week.
  
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• Drop 'SLAPP' assault, media lawyer tells SRA

  16-12-2025 12:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator's campaign against abusive 'lawfare' suffers two tribunal defeats in a week.
  
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• Non-practising solicitor struck off for dishonest criminal case work

  16-12-2025 10:17 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Gavin Clarke said his judgement was impaired by personal and professional difficulties.
  
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• Police face super-complaint in England and Wales over lengthy delays in sexual offence investigations

  15-12-2025 21:00
  Campaign groups warn prolonged inquiries are retraumatising survivorsA super-complaint has been filed against police forces in England and Wales over years-long delays in investigating sexual offences.More than 37,000 sexual offence investigations have taken longer than three years to conclude over the past decade, campaigners said. Continue reading...
  
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• Home Office fails to protect vulnerable migrants, high court judge rules

  15-12-2025 19:09
  Judgment finds systems designed to protect against inhuman and degrading treatment ‘unlawfully’ failing for yearsThe Home Office has failed to protect vulnerable migrants it locks up in detention centres, a high court judge has ruled.Mrs Justice Jefford found an unlawful failure of the “systems” designed to protect immigration detainees from inhuman and degrading treatment under article 3 of the European convention on human rights and that these failings had been going on
  
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• International law on the killing of people who survive an attack at sea | Letter

  15-12-2025 19:02
  William Schabas on the conviction of two officers of a German submarine of ‘an offence against the law of nations’ during the first world warSidney Blumenthal referred to a 1945 war crimes judgment on the killing of seamen who had survived an attack at sea during the second world war (Does Pete Hegseth even believe that war crimes exist?, 8 December). There is an even earlier case. In a trial held by a German court pursuant to the treaty of Versailles (1919), two officers of U-86 wer
  
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• The big quarrels over the workers’ rights bill have barely started | Nils Pratley

  15-12-2025 18:31
  Many critical details have been deliberately left to be resolved in secondary legislation – including the introduction of guaranteed hours contractsBusiness groups urge Tory peers to stop blocking Labour’s workers’ rights billWill the employment rights bill be passed by Christmas? Well, the chances are slightly improved after six leading business groups published a temperature-lowering letter on Monday that said parliament, which in this instance means the blockers in the House
  
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• The big quarrels over the workers’ rights bill have barely started

  15-12-2025 18:31
  Many critical details have been deliberately left to be resolved in secondary legislation – including the introduction of guaranteed hours contractsBusiness groups urge Tory peers to stop blocking Labour’s workers’ rights billWill the employment rights bill be passed by Christmas? Well, the chances are slightly improved after six leading business groups published a temperature-lowering letter on Monday that said parliament, which in this instance means the blockers in the House
  
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• Taylor Wessing confirms transatlantic merger

  15-12-2025 17:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tie-up with Winston & Strawn, expected to conclude next May, will not include affiliates in eight European countries.
  
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• Business groups urge Tory peers to stop blocking Labour’s workers’ rights bill

  15-12-2025 16:35
  Six of Britain’s biggest employer groups fear compromise deal brokered with bosses and union leaders is at riskNils Pratley: The big quarrels over the workers’ rights bill have barely startedBritain’s biggest business groups have urged Conservative peers to stop blocking Labour’s workers’ rights bill in the House of Lords to avoid throwing away a compromise deal reached with trade unions.With the clock ticking before Christmas, six of the country’s biggest emp
  
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• SRA review finds compliance officers feel undervalued by firms

  15-12-2025 16:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator concerned that current regime is not always operating effectively.
  
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• Outcry over 'lawfare' conviction of Hong Kong democracy activist

  15-12-2025 15:36 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  British citizen Jimmy Lai ‘criminalised for his journalism’, says global bar’s human rights body.
  
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• Government report shuns major reform despite insurer pressure

  15-12-2025 13:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Claims market left largely untouched after year-long study.
  
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• The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal | Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer

  15-12-2025 12:00
  The decision means TikTok now operates under the threat that it could be forced offline with a stroke of Trump’s penJudicial opinions allowing the government to suppress speech in the name of national security rarely stand the test of time. But time has been unusually unkind to the US supreme court decision that upheld the law banning TikTok, the short-form video platform. The court issued its ruling less than a year ago, but it is already obvious that the deference the court gave to the g
  
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• 'The competition is fierce': legal services taskforce gets to work

  15-12-2025 10:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society promotes solicitor profession at first meeting of English Law Promotion Panel.
  
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• Call for system that frees rape suspects as alternative to bail to be scrapped in England and Wales

  15-12-2025 08:00
  ‘Released under investigation’ leads to uncertainty and distress for both victim and accused, say campaignersHundreds of suspected rapists in England and Wales are spending years released under investigation, under a system that the government has been urged to scrap as it “doesn’t serve anyone’s interests apart from the police”.Introduced under the Policing & Crime Act 2017, released under investigation (RUI) allows police an alternative to bail, without
  
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• ‘Law is the only weapon I have’: a Ukrainian lawyer’s campaign to rescue the children stolen by Russia

  15-12-2025 06:00
  Though once so despairing she thought of giving up the law for art, Kateryna Rashevska is still pushing for the return of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by the invadersAt only 28, the human rights lawyer Kateryna Rashevska has become the public face of Ukraine’s campaign to repatriate children forcibly deported to Russia. She knows this means she is being watched.The past two years have seen the Ukrainian addressing the UN security council, the US Senate and writing submissions t
  
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• ‘Like a mini Louvre’: two generations of Rothschilds fight over treasure trove of artworks

  14-12-2025 07:00
  Baronesses Nadine and Ariane de Rothschild at odds over future of Swiss chateau’s priceless contentsAfter three generations of genteel discretion bordering on secrecy, the international banking family the Rothschilds has been riven by rival claims to a vast collection of masterpieces that are part of the family’s multibillion-euro fortune.The battle now playing out in the courts and media has pitched the 93-year-old senior baroness, Nadine de Rothschild – widow of Edmond de Rot
  
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• ‘Who’s it going to be next time?’: ECHR rethink is ‘moral retreat’, say rights experts

  13-12-2025 07:00
  As 27 European countries urge changes to laws forged after second world war, human rights chief says politicians are playing into hands of populistsThe battle had been brewing for months. But this week it came to a head in a flurry of meetings, calls and one heady statement. Twenty-seven European countries urged a rethink of the human rights laws forged after the second world war, describing them as an impediment when it came to addressing migration.Amnesty International has called it “a m
  
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• Sickened by Keir Starmer’s call to curb human rights | Letters

  12-12-2025 19:03
  Nick Moss, Dr Deborah Talbot, Dimitra Blana and Mary Pimm on the prime minister’s plan to ‘protect our borders’ and Donald Trump’s accusations that Europe is ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’There is something particularly sickening about Keir Starmer’s call for European leaders to “urgently curb joint human rights laws” (Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right, 9 December).It is not just that the human rig
  
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• SSB Law directors disqualified for dishonesty and 'recklessness'

  12-12-2025 17:41 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Multiple failures and deliberate policy decisions left clients of defunct Sheffield claims firm facing ruinous costs bills.
  
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