‘A group of shared ownership residents cannot be charged for services on their estate that they cannot access, the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 16th July 2026
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Much has been written about the risks of lawyers misusing AI for legal research and drafting. Recent cases involving fabricated authorities and inaccurate legal analysis have rightly attracted attention.
‘However, in my view, the greater and more immediate challenge lies elsewhere: the routine use of AI by clients themselves.’
Legal Futures, 16th July 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘This consultation seeks views on the future structure, scope and format of the Undercover Policing Inquiry.’
home Office, 16th July 2026
Source: www.gov.uk
‘In the second of two articles on the recent LGPS governance guidance, Paul Newman KC looks at one of its more controversial aspects: the use of LGPS assets to pursue local investment objectives.’
Pensions Barrister, 16th July 2026
Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com
‘Social media companies will be required to apply default settings for teenagers aged 16 or 17 in the UK that place “overnight curfews” on use of their apps and prevent infinite scrolling, under new regulations the government has confirmed will be introduced next year.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th July 2026
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A recent ruling by the Court of Appeal clarifies that the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) can make decisions on copyright and jurisdiction issues in competition claims in certain instances.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th July 2026
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘In Barsuk and Gyl v Ukraine [2026] ECHR 145, the applicants, two female Jehovah’s Witnesses, had been attacked and beaten up by one S when they were preaching door-to-door and distributing religious literature in 2017. S was subsequently arrested and charged with “infliction of minor injuries which caused short-term damage to health” and “infliction of injuries of medium severity” under the Criminal Code.’
Law & Religion UK, 16th July 2026
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘The regulator has abandoned its appeal over the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal’s dismissal of a ‘SLAPP’ case against a partner at a renowned defamation firm.’
Law Society Gazette, 16th July 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Retaining jury trials for fraud cases and allowing the Serious Fraud Office to pay whistleblowers are among recommendations put forward by Jonathan Fisher KC in his independent review of disclosure and fraud offences.’
Law Society Gazette, 15th July 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘More than seven months after announcing £34m to bolster the barrister workforce within the criminal legal aid sector, the government has finally announced how it plans to carve up the cash.’
Law Society Gazette, 15th July 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘McKendrick J. A hearing dealing with two distinct matters: a contested divorce application, and disputed applications for financial remedies, including forum conveniens issues, and successful applications for a Hadkinson order and Hemain injunction.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 14th July 2026
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
‘Judgment of HHJ Farquhar on the jurisdiction of the courts in domicile disputes, dealing further with applications making fraudulent use of the divorce portal.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 14th July 2026
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
‘Three United Nations special rapporteurs have demanded that Britain urgently resentences almost 2,400 people still serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) jail terms.’
The Independent, 16th July 2026
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Under Lammy’s proposal, couples who have lived together for three years, or who have a child together, would automatically acquire marriage-like legal obligations they never agreed to, meaning either partner could ask a court to make financial orders if the relationship ends.’
The Guardian, 14th July 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The green energy entrepreneur and Labour donor Dale Vince is in line to receive damages from the publisher of the Daily Mail after claiming it used his picture to mislead millions of readers.’
The Guardian, 15th July 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Sustainability is everywhere now. It turns up in all-staff emails and new module titles, in strategy documents and calls for papers, and mostly we let it pass without asking what it commits us to. The familiar objection is that the concept is anthropocentric, that it manages nature for human benefit rather than valuing it in its own right. That objection is real, but it is also well worn, and a narrower question seems to me more revealing. When a statute or a treaty commits us to sustainable development and a dispute reaches court, does the concept help the judge decide the case? The suggestion here is that it does very little, because sustainability lacks what might be called an adjudicative architecture: the machinery a claim needs before a court can act on it, an account of who may sue, of what counts as harm, and of what a court may order. Constitutional rights supply that machinery, and the rights of nature increasingly do too. Sustainability does not.’
City Law Forum, 15th July 2026
Source: blogs.city.ac.uk
‘A teenage student subjected to a four-year “catfishing” nightmare after her identity was stolen by another teenage girl in her town has won a £10,000 High Court damages payout.’
The Independent, 15th July 2026
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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