‘Proposed new rights for unmarried couples would amount to ‘state forced marriage’, a former Bar Standards Board chair said as the government’s consultation on new financial rights and obligations approaches its closing date.’

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Law Society Gazette, 12th August 2026

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‘The Supreme Court has allowed the appeal of a taxi driver in a landmark employment case involving the rights of part-time workers.’

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Law Society Gazette, 12th August 2026

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‘Reforms of cohabitation rights could generate around 10,000 additional Financial Remedies Court cases annually, a senior family judge has said.’

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Law Society Gazette, 11th August 2026

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‘The Court of Appeal has continued to emphasise the strictness of the approach which should be applied by courts and tribunals when determining whether individuals challenging immigration decisions can properly demonstrate an existence of family life engaging Article 8 ECHR protection. The case is Entry Clearance Officer v FA [2026] EWCA Civ 1014 (30 July 2026).’

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Administrative Court Blog, 11th August 2026

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‘Many road traffic collision victims are not told about potential compensation and the need to instruct a solicitor to obtain it, a report by the Victims’ Commissioner reveals today.’

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Law Society Gazette, 13th August 2026

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‘The victims’ commissioner for England and Wales found that many of the thousands afflicted each year by criminal driving felt that “the harm they had suffered mattered less” than that from other serious crimes.’

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The Guardian, 13th August 2026

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‘A man has been jailed for more than 14 years after he admitted raping, strangling and stalking as well as other offences.’

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BBC News, 12th August 2026

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‘The decision in Jethiga Sateeshkumar v Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council [2026] considers when Japanese knotweed encroachment amounts to a private nuisance, and whether treatment costs are recoverable where knotweed has already encroached before the defendant came under a duty to act. ‘

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Local Government Lawyer, 12th August 2026

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‘Appeal judges have upheld the conviction and sentence imposed on the man who hired an ex-Royal Marine to plant fake bombs outside the chambers of two barristers who had acted in proceedings against his wife.’

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Legal Futures, 12th August 2026

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‘Everyone’s talking about agentic AI.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is actively exploring the benefits and challenges of embedding it in legal services, but the Law Society’s April 2026 foresight report made the somewhat awkward finding that there is currently no evidence that agentic AI is actually being used in legal practice.’

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Legal Futures, 12th August 2026

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‘A leaked Ministry of Defence (MoD) report, obtained by the BBC, has highlighted serious failings in a new military command set up to investigate the most severe crimes, including rape and sexual assault.’

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BBC News, 12th August 2026

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‘The tribunal said its job was not to “conduct a public inquiry into alleged bullying or misogyny within the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge” but concluded it was “satisfied that the claimant genuinely believed that there was a problem within the institute about the way female administrators were being treated”.’

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The Guardian, 11th August 2026

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‘Courts in England and Wales have joined a number of restaurants, theatres and pubs in banning Meta glasses, amid a mounting backlash against what has been described as “spyware”.’

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The Guardian, 11th August 2026

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‘Proposed legal reforms on relationships risk inadvertently drawing cohabiting couples into marriage-style commitments without their knowledge, critics have warned.’

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The Independent, 12th August 2026

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‘A 63-year-old man has been found guilty of harassing the Labour MP Stella Creasy after he was “abusive and aggressive” to her on a tube train.’

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The Guardian, 11th August 2026

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‘The human rights watchdog said that their long incarceration beyond their original tariff amounts to arbitrary detention under international human rights law and they are entitled to compensation and other reparations.’

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The Independent, 11th August 2026

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‘A senior boatswain at a ferry company has won almost £50,000 after bosses refused to let him work on land when he complained that working at sea aggravated his arthritis because of the vibrations on the ship.’

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The Independent, 11th August 2026

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‘Anna Crawford also found there was a risk of future deaths within the civil service from flawed handling of disciplinary proceedings. She said she would send a prevention of future deaths report to the head of the civil service, the Treasury, and the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas).’

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The Guardian, 10th August 2026

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‘Work–life balance rights are in the odd position of being regularly legislated on and amended but rarely significantly changed. Every so often a new right, usually building on an existing one, is introduced, eligibility to use a right is widened, or a right is slightly strengthened. Reform takes place in silos: there is rarely consideration of how the rights fit together to allow work–life reconciliation over a person’s (working) life course or of more radical reform such as making carer status a protected characteristic for the purpose of discrimination law. The Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA) continues this trend of incremental reform by making changes to several existing rights. Although the direction of travel is clearly in the direction of extending the scope and eligibility to rights, overall it is yet another lost opportunity.’

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King's Law Journal, 7th August 2026

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