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Mermaids v LGB Alliance: Tribunal rejects attempt to deregister controversial...
Despite what the parties and their supporters hoped, this case (Mermaids v The Charity Commission of England and Wales & LGB Alliance [2023] ULKFTT 563 (GRC)) was not – said the Tribunal – about...
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North Sea Oil Licenses, Torture in Ukraine, and Abortion Rights in the Court...
In the news Two thinktanks – Civil Exchange and the Sheila McKechnie Foundation – have issued a damning report on the state of freedom of expression and democratic discourse in the UK, condemning the...
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The Weekly Round-up: Alexei Navalny conviction, compensation for miscarriages...
In the news Alexei Navalny – a vocal critic of Putin’s government and prominent opposition figure in Russia – has been sentenced to a further 19 years in prison. Navalny is already serving an 11-year...
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In the early hours of 24 March 1922, a group of men, of whom most were in police uniform, broke into the North Belfast home of prominent Catholic businessman Owen McMahon and shot him dead, along with...
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Coronial powers and the rights of the unborn (Part 1)
In this two-part article, Maya Sikand KC, Tom Stoate, and Ruby Peacock, explore two difficult questions arising from the inquest into the ‘harrowing circumstances’ of the death of a baby, Aisha...
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Weekly Round-up: Presidential assassination; sewage lawsuit; lefty lawyers
In the news One of the candidates running in Ecuador’s upcoming presidential election has been assassinated. Fernando Villavicencio was shot dead at a campaign rally in Quito. His election platform...
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Coronial powers and the rights of the unborn (Part 2)
In this two-part article, Maya Sikand KC, Tom Stoate and Ruby Peacock, explore two difficult questions arising from the inquest into the ‘harrowing circumstances’ of the death of a baby, Aisha Cleary,...
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Should there be a statutory public inquiry into the murders and attempted...
Why wasn’t Lucy Letby stopped sooner? This is the burning question that the families of her victims, and the public, are now asking. Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, has decided that the best...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Bibby Stockholm, Children’s Rights, and Illegal Evictions
In the news The Fire Brigades Union has sent a pre-action protocol letter to the Home Secretary threatening judicial review of her alleged failure to address “serious fire and operational safety...
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The Good Friday Agreement and the European Convention on Human Rights
Introduction On 11 August, a piece from Professor Richard Ekins KC (Hon) set out a case for the UK denouncing the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and leaving the treaty system altogether....
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Seventeen years: what does Andrew Malkinson’s wrongful conviction say about...
Missing evidence Earlier this month, the Court of Appeal overturned Andrew Malkinson’s conviction for rape and related assault offences, for which he had spent 17 years in prison. An appeal in 2006...
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The Weekly Round-up: Sentencing Hearings, the Letby Inquiry, and Equal Pay...
In the news This week, the Ministry of Justice has proposed new laws which would allow judges to force defendants to attend sentencing hearings. Judges can already issue an order requiring a...
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The Weekly Round-up: Terrorist convict escapes Wandsworth, lawsuit against...
In the news Questions have been raised over the state of the British prisons system after the escape of Daniel Khalife. The 21 year-old former soldier who had been convicted for terrorist offences...
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Best of Law Pod 2023 so far
In Episode 189 presenters Rosalind English and Lucy McCann reprise some of the leading episodes of Law Pod UK this year, ranging from the potential impact of AI on the legal professions, to the...
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Targets for reduction in sewage outflow not unlawful, says High Court
The King (on the application of Wildfish Conservation v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Environment Agency (Defendant) and the Water Services Regulation...
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The Weekly Round-up: Gaming the asylum system, contempt warnings, and a...
In the news The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has been in the news for claiming that asylum seekers “purport” to be gay to “game the system” and receive preferential treatment in asylum...
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The Weekly Round-up: Rwanda hearing, planning law reforms, mercy killing...
In the news The government’s Rwanda deportation scheme begins its battle in the Supreme Court today. Arguing the case for the appellants are In June, the Court of Appeal ruled the policy unlawful...
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Israel-Palestine Conflict, Surveillance of Teachers, and Pollution in Italy:...
In the news The conflict between Israel and Hamas has continued to escalate, with some 1,400 Israelis and over 5,000 Palestinians dead, over 15,000 people injured, and over 600,000 people displaced....
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The Special Advocate – Not Waving but Drowning
The unfairness of secret hearings is being aggravated by sustained neglect of the special advocate system. In this piece I explain why I have regretfully concluded that I cannot accept any new...
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The Weekly Round-up: Israel-Palestine war crimes, Assisted-dying, and SLAPPs
In the news As Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza begins, commentators and key global organisations are assessing whether international law is being broken by either side in the conflict. The UN said as...
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