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• US asks judge to break up Google’s ad tech business after requesting Chrome sale

  03-05-2025 00:00
  
  After Google lost its first monopoly trial, government asks it to sell off units of its core internet ads businessGoogle on Friday faced a demand by the US government to break up its hugely profitable ad technology business. The request came after a judge found the tech giant was commanding an illegal monopoly for the second time in less than a year.“We have a defendant who has found ways to defy” the law, US government lawyer Julia Tarver Wood told a federal court in Virginia, as sh
  
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• Met using outdated powers to police pro-Palestine protests, say legal experts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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• Thrillers should be on UK school curriculum to boost reading, says Lee Child

  19-12-2025 06:00
  Bestselling author says focus on ‘masterpieces’ puts children off as he promotes prison literacy schemeToo much of the literature taught in UK schools is putting children off reading and thrillers should become part of the curriculum, one of the world’s biggest selling authors has argued.Lee Child, the British writer of Jack Reacher novels, which have sold more than 100m copies worldwide, said: “I can totally understand why, if you’re an English teacher and you&rsqu
  
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• Judge was caused ‘considerable distress’ when solicitor sued her

  19-12-2025 01:42 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitor advocate launched an ‘appalling action’ against Master Jennifer James, for which he faces paying costs in excess of £300,000.
  
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• 'Important difference' in age assessment JR claims, Court of Appeal rules

  19-12-2025 01:19 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  There is no heightened bar for intervention when the court must decide how old a claimant is, the court said.
  
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• Badenoch says teaching boys about misogyny shouldn’t be a priority because migrants more dangerous to women and girls – UK politics live

  18-12-2025 18:49
  Tory leader dismisses the government’s newly published strategy as a ‘complete distraction’Richard Adams is the Guardian’s education editor.The British public supports the government’s decision to rejoin the Erasmus youth education and work experience programme, according to snap polling released by YouGov. Continue reading...
  
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• Candidates' confidence in SQE plummets

  18-12-2025 18:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law firms are increasingly confident about exam but candidates criticise multiple-choice test.
  
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• Sarah Burton obituary

  18-12-2025 18:19
  My partner, Sarah Burton, who has died of cancer of the appendix aged 73, was a formidable legal and environmental activist. She held senior roles at Greenpeace UK, Greenpeace International and Amnesty International.She joined the law firm of Seifert Sedley in the late 1970s, after impressing them with her negotiating skills for the Seymour Place Co-operative, in London. During the 1980 Blair Peach inquest, Sarah secured a high court order stopping proceedings and requiring the coroner to sit wi
  
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• Thousands to avoid Christmas on streets as Home Office ordered to delay refugee evictions

  18-12-2025 18:15
  Move-on period extended from 28 days to 56 days if person recently granted refugee status is at risk of sleeping roughThe UK high court has halted evictions of thousands of new refugees who were at risk of spending Christmas on the streets.Concern had been mounting among lawyers and human rights campaigners that within days of celebrating being granted refugee status the group could find themselves rough sleeping. Continue reading...
  
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• SFO secures £900,000 confiscation order against Axiom Fund adviser

  18-12-2025 17:24 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Former practitioner has three months to pay £928,479.89 or he could face more years added to his sentence for fraudulent trading.
  
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• Solicitors fear burden of dual regulation under AML plans

  18-12-2025 16:37 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Society says fundamental change to AML supervision should not be rushed through.
  
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• Save the date: Mazur appeal given February 2026 listing

  18-12-2025 13:18 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court date brought forward in recognition of importance of litigation conduct decision.
  
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• New Crown court figures prompt conflicting views on solution

  18-12-2025 13:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chancery Lane says justice secretary's proposed solution merely moves problem from one court to another.
  
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• New backlog record renews conflict on jury curbs

  18-12-2025 13:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society says justice secretary David Lammy's solution merely transfers problem from one court to another.
  
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• SRA shuts down Manchester firm with links to collapsed practice

  18-12-2025 13:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator says it has acted to protect the interest of Precision Solicitors’ clients.
  
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• Shoosmiths unlocks £1m bonus after hitting ‘AI prompts’ target

  18-12-2025 12:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Firm says technology has freed up staff to focus on important client-facing work.
  
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• Shackled, alone and scared: the grim reality for women forced to give birth in prison

  18-12-2025 12:00
  Across the world, incarcerated pregnant women are often held in deplorable conditions, leading some to miscarry or give birth alone inside a cell, say campaignersRead more in our Women in prison seriesDina Hernández was 35 weeks pregnant when she was arrested near her home in San Salvador in March 2024. The 28-year-old human rights activist, who was with her five-year-old son, was accused of “illicit association” with gang members and jailed without evidence.Three weeks later,
  
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• Data page – December 2025

  18-12-2025 11:54 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
  
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• Labour MPs revolt over ‘madness’ of jury-scrapping plans

  18-12-2025 10:11
  Letter from 39 backbenchers threatens rebellion over proposal to expedite court backlog in England and WalesKeir Starmer is facing the threat of a backbench rebellion over plans to reduce the number of jury trials in England and Wales as dozens of Labour MPs signed a letter describing the move as “madness”.The justice secretary, David Lammy, announced plans earlier this month that will take thousands of trials away from the jury system to be heard instead by judges and magistrates. C
  
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• I want my sons to know masculinity can be kind – and my daughter to live without fear | David Lammy

  18-12-2025 08:00
  Violence against women is a national emergency. As a minister, but also as a father, I see Labour’s new strategy as a matter of the highest priorityDavid Lammy MP is the deputy prime minister, lord chancellor and secretary of state for justiceIn the year leading up to March 2025, one in eight women in England and Wales had been a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking. Almost 200 rapes are recorded every day. And on average, three women are killed by men in the UK every singl
  
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• Bindmans makes super-complaint over lengthy investigations

  18-12-2025 07:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law firm highlights 'potential systemic breach' of ECHR obligations.
  
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• Bindmans lodges super-complaint over lengthy rape investigations

  18-12-2025 07:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law firm highlights 'potential systemic breach' of ECHR obligations.
  
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• Ben Jennings on Donald Trump suing the BBC – cartoon

  17-12-2025 18:42
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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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