‘Rosalind English talks to Jacob Turner, barrister at Fountain Court Chambers, and Michael Workman, former lawyer at the Law Commission. Both are AI experts who have taken part in assembling the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce draft Legal Statement regarding liability for AI-related harm in England and Wales, pertaining to private law.’
Law Pod UK, 13th April 2026
Source: audioboom.com
‘Sir Andrew McFarlane has outlined significant reforms and priorities for the family justice system in a final “View” issued shortly before his retirement on 13 April 2026, with the nationwide expansion of a child-focused approach to private law proceedings taking centre stage.’
Family Law, 13th April 2026
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘The Government has announced a series of legislative measures aimed at strengthening protections against violence against women and girls, including new offences targeting harmful online pornography and public sexual harassment.’
Family Law, 13th April 2026
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘To coincide with this week’s committee stage of the Courts and Tribunals Bill, which threatens to significantly restrict jury trials, the Bar Council is publishing a polemical attack on the proposal by Geoffrey Robertson KC, founding head of Doughty Street Chambers.’
Bar Council, 13th April 2026
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘The British Indian Ocean Territory Constitution Order 2004 is legislation made by Royal Prerogative. Section 9 provides that there is no right of abode in the Chagos Islands. In R (Mandarin) v HM BIOT Commissioner (31 March 2026) the British Indian Ocean Territory Supreme Court ruled that section 9 was irrational and quashed it. I argue that the judgment is correct, that the 2004 Order is a colonial anachronism and that is antithetical to constitutional principles, democratic principles and the rule of law.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 13th April 2026
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘This paper explores the “criminalisation” of asylum in recent UK law and policy, most notably the 2022 Nationality and Borders Act (NABA) and 2023 Illegal Migration Act (IMA), and the ways in which this framework has fed through into recent legislative and policy measures. Whilst the development and expansion of criminal offences relating to irregular entry and arrival may be considered the most overt form of “criminalising” people on the move, in this paper it is argued that the criminalisation of asylum in the UK today should not only be understood through the prism of crimmigration measures which are expressly penal in nature, but also through an array of measures which, although framed as administrative and civil, are similarly punitive in character and serve the criminal punishment rationale of retribution and deterrence. The legislative framework of the NABA 2022 and IMA 2023 has paved the way for this progressive “criminalisation” by sanctioning those arriving irregularly to the UK to claim asylum. This trend has been continued in recent law and policy, and progressively expanded in a manner that increasingly sanctions refugees for the very fact of having claimed asylum in the UK.’
EIN Blog, 13th April 2026
Source: www.ein.org.uk
‘The Artemis II mission has brought back into focus the extraction of space resources for commercial gain. But laws governing the exploitation of lunar materials remain an untenable fudge.’
Law Society Gazette, 13th April 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The use of AI to generate criminal court transcripts – long proposed by campaigners for more open justice – is to be tested, the Ministry of Justice announced today. In the research HM Courts & Tribunals Service will test the accuracy of its in-house developed system, Justice Transcribe, in recording Crown court proceedings.’
Law Society Gazette, 14th April 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Is the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office process fit for purpose? Women barristers’ experiences of bullying are not being reported or, if they are, they are not making it through the system, says Tana Adkin KC.’
Counsel, 13th April 2026
Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk
‘If lawyers using AI forget it is just a tool, and stop being ethical responsible lawyers, it will cause mayhem – Flora Page KC explores the legal and ethical pitfalls and offers essential guidance on developing good, safe AI practices in-house.’
Counsel, 13th April 2026
Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk
‘HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor said that while some progress had been made to improve the situation at HMP Manchester, drugs, violence and a “poor regime” remained serious threats to stability.’
BBC News, 14th April 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Eleven Metropolitan Police officers are being investigated by the police watchdog for their handling of the initial inquiry into a crash in Wimbledon that killed two schoolgirls three years ago, the BBC has been told.’
BBC News, 14th April 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The High Court (Mansfield J) has held that Thlimmenos discrimination can only apply where a claimant is asking for an exception to be introduced to an otherwise general rule; it does not apply where both the claimant and their comparator are outside the ambit of the general rule and thus not subject to any “treatment”. In this sense, the Thlimmenos principle does not permit claimants to seek a form of positive discrimination. The case is R (CKS and others) v Secretary of State for Education [2026] EWHC 741 (Admin).’
Administrative Court Blog, 10th April 2026
‘A new chambers specialising in employment law has opened in London, bidding to break free from the old hierarchical order found in traditional sets.’
Legal Futures, 13th April 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘An unofficial carer has been handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 19 years for the murder of a disabled man whose body he concealed for up to a month.’
The Independent, 10th April 2026
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘UK government officials acknowledged that they had run out of time to pass legislation within the current parliamentary session, which ends in the coming weeks.’
The Guardian, 11th April 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An accelerated misconduct hearing found that PC Charlie Cano, who worked at Charing Cross police station, made disrespectful remarks and boasted about using force against a teenage female detainee.’
BBC News, 10th April 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A real estate manager has been awarded nearly £400,000 by an employment tribunal after accumulating an astonishing 827 unpaid holiday days over 25 years.’
The Independent, 10th April 2026
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Noa-Lynn van Leuven will be banned from competing in any of the Professional Darts Corporation’s women-only events with immediate effect after a ruling from the sport’s regulatory body stated only biological females can now compete in women’s tournaments.’
The Guardian, 9th April 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Carlo Tritta, 19, of Bishopstoke, Eastleigh, Hampshire, has been locked up for 28 months after he pleaded guilty to various offences including making indecent images of a child and sexual communications with a child.’
The Independent, 9th April 2026
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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