‘Constance Marten and her partner, a convicted rapist, have been admonished for passing notes and talking to each other as they were being sentenced over the death of their newborn baby girl.’
The Independent, 15th September 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Two parents who caused the death of their newborn baby after taking her to live in a tent in wintry conditions to evade social services have each been sentenced to 14 years in prison.’
The Guardian, 15th September 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The London Borough of Redbridge has been recommended to pay £6,950 by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman after it failed to properly assess the capacity of three family members to make a homelessness application when they told the council they were suffering domestic abuse.’
Local Government Lawyer, 12th September 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Family Court has discharged a “phalanx of orders” secured by a local authority to prohibit a mother and father taking their four children to a country deemed unsafe by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, describing the unnamed local authority’s approach as “dictatorial”.’
Local government Lawyer, 11th September 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A father and his two adult children have been imprisoned after being found guilty of inciting racial hatred through neo-Nazi music.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 11th September 2025
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘In a damning report published today, the House of Commons public accounts committee criticises the Ministry of Justice and Department for Education for failing to recognise the urgent need for reform “glaringly obvious to court users”.’
Law Society Gazette, 12th September 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘For financial remedy lawyers, life’s certainties are death, taxes, and discovering assets the other side swore blind didn’t exist. The Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Entwistle v Helliwell [2025] EWCA Civ 1055 is a timely reminder that, with pre-nuptial agreements, disclosure isn’t just a polite formality, it’s the concrete slab the whole thing rests on.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 11th September 2025
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
‘A man who tried to smuggle cocaine worth almost £1m into the UK by hiding it in an electric wheelchair has been jailed.’
BBC News, 12th September 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Law Commission has launched a project to examine whether new legislation is needed on automated decision-making (ADM) by public bodies, using algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI).’
Legal Futures, 9th September 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘In response to political pressure to curb immigration, the UK Home Office has stepped up enforcing compliance with sponsor licence obligations by UK businesses that employ overseas workers. This has led to a surge in the number of suspensions and revocations of sponsor licences, with a 300% increase in negative action taken against sponsors as a result of an investigation or compliance visit.’
EIN Guest Blog, 11th September 2025
Source: www.ein.org.uk
‘The responsibility for holding the government to account for its failings is the core constitutional role of a range of “watchdog” bodies outside of Parliament, such as inspectorates, commissioners, public inquiries, independent reviews, and ombudsmen.’
UK Constitutional Law Association Blog, 11th September 2025
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Judges have taken another scythe to claimant costs in the “dieselgate” group claim after dismissing the idea that 30 fee earners may need to attend court.”
Law Society Gazette, 10th September 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Maintaining “office harmony” a valid factor in recruitment decisions, employment tribunal in London rules’
The Guardian, 10th September 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A driver high on cocaine who crashed head-on into a motorcyclist has been jailed for more than two years.’
BBC News, 11th September 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man convicted of murdering a registered sex offender has been told he must spend at least 20 years in jail.’
BBC News, 11th September 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Court recognises that it has a leadership role to play in supporting increasing diversity of the judiciary, and to communicate the Court’s support for diversity and inclusion to the legal profession and the public. The overarching aims of this strategy are to support the progress of underrepresented groups into judicial roles and to achieve an inclusive and respectful working environment for justices where differences are valued.’
Supreme Court, 8th September 2025
Source: www.supremecourt.uk
‘A High Court judge has issued an interim injunction preventing Caerphilly County Borough Council from proceeding with its plans to shut ten libraries pending a judicial review.’
Local Government Lawyer, 9th September 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Women barristers will be “disproportionately adversely affected” by plans to introduce mandatory reporting by barristers of any complaints they receive, the Bar Council has warned.’
Legal Futures, 10th September 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has announced that it is accelerating its adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) to support the modernisation of courts and tribunals, while emphasising that all applications will be implemented responsibly.’
Family Law, 9th September 2025
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Section 1(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“FOIA”) creates the right to have information held by a public authority communicated to a requestor. But as night follows day, this is not an absolute right. Part II of the Act sets out a series of exemptions to the right in section 1(1)(b). Some of these are absolute exemptions. Others are qualified.’
Panopticon, 9th September 2025
Source: panopticonblog.com
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