‘Magistrates’ courts already deal with 92% of all cases before the criminal courts. The increase in sentencing powers proposed in the Courts and Tribunals Bill will push that figure even higher. With this in mind, the Gazette wanted to find out more about the magistracy and, in a first, according to the Magistrates’ Association, we were invited to shadow two magistrates over several days and interview the presiding justices.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 15th September 2026

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘More judges have been sanctioned over delays to their issue of judgments and other decisions.’

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Law Society Gazette, 16th September 2026

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘The government cannot allow the emergence of a two-tier system where large City law firms are at the cutting edge of AI use while the courts are “stuck in the analogue age”, justice minister Sarah Sackman said yesterday.’

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Legal Futures, 16th September 2026

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘MacDonald J. Refusal of relief from sanctions for deliberately failing to comply with length of evidence in H’s application to vary the maintenance he had agreed to pay W. H’s s 37 MCA injunction application also failed.’

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Financial Remedies Journal, 15th September 2026

Source: financialremediesjournal.com

‘Henry Fingerhut outlines what the Bar Standards Board AI guidance means for early career barristers.’

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Counsel, 14th September 2026

Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk

‘The Sir Mota Singh Moot has returned, offering an impressive glimpse of a more representative Bar. If this is what the future looks like, why does the present still lag so far behind? ask Baldip Singh and Prof Jo Delahunty KC.’

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Counsel, 14th September 2026

Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk

‘A former police officer has been jailed for misconduct in public office after he requested a sexually explicit video from a female suspect’s phone.’

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Crown Prosecution Service, 16th September 2026

Source: www.cps.gov.uk

‘A former member of police staff has been sentenced after she used a police computer system to carry out illegal searches on several people, including herself.’

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BBC News, 16th September 2026

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Two serving Army officers have been cleared of failing to properly deal with abuse allegations made by a teenage soldier who took her own life.’

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BBC News, 16th September 2026

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‘Company bosses will have to sit down with workers who request flexible working and justify their reasons for any refusals under new rights announced by Louise Haigh on Tuesday.’

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The Guardian, 15th September 2026

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘Army colonel Samantha Shepherd has been found not guilty of failing to properly deal with abuse allegations made by Gunner Jaysley Beck before her death.’

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The Independent, 16th September 2026

Source: www.independent.co.uk

‘Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon) analyses an important Court of Protection ruling in the aftermath of the Supreme Court‘s judgment in AGNI.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 16th September 2026

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘Following a rare Equality Act challenge against a Prevent referral, a school has been found to have unlawfully discriminated against a Muslim pupil referred to the local authority under the Government’s counter-terrorism scheme.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 16th September 2026

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

‘There are potential gaps in English private law that could leave businesses unable to recover losses in circumstances where AI agents cause them harm by acting completely unprompted and seemingly beyond constraints imposed by those who developed or deployed them. The courts will need to take an expansive view of “intentionality” to provide affected companies with redress.’

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OUT-LAW.com, 14th September 2026

Source: www.pinsentmasons.com

‘On 15 September 2026, Louise Haigh, First Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Minister for the Cabinet Office, presented the Church appointments (repeal of discriminatory provision) Bill under (Standing Order No. 57).’

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Law & Religion UK, 15th September 2026

Source: lawandreligionuk.com

‘In R (Golding and others) v FSCS Ltd [2026] EWHC 2337 (Admin), the High Court has upheld the FSCS’s rejection of pension transfer compensation claims on limitation grounds.’

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Pensions Barrister, 14th September 2026

Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com

‘An Oxford doctoral student with no legal training is celebrating using AI to bring a successful claim against energy provider SSE over a defunct electricity meter for which it tried to charge him.’

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Legal Futures, 15th September 2026

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘The Home Office could be forced to pay damages after breaching the human rights of a married couple held in separate accommodation prior to their planned deportation to India, the High Court has ruled.’

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The Independent, 15th September 2026

Source: www.independent.co.uk

‘The public inquiry into how serial killer Lucy Letby was able to murder babies at the Countess of Chester hospital has delivered its findings, describing a “complete failure” to protect infants from harm.’

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BBC News, 15th September 2026

Source: www.bbc.co.uk