‘It is likely that “humans will come to accept, on economic grounds, machine-enabled resolution of small disputes”, the Master of the Rolls has predicted.’
Legal Futures, 21st August 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Hundreds of head injury claims from former rugby players have narrowly survived strike-out attempts.’
Law Society Gazette, 21st August 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Five Palestine Action activists who vandalised a Barclays branch in Burnley will not be sentenced as terrorists, a judge has ruled.’
The Guardian, 21st August 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Drugs that help control the libidos of people who have committed sexual offences could be rolled out for thousands of male prisoners in England and Wales from December 2028, an expert has said.’
The Guardian, 22nd August 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man has been jailed for life for murdering his flatmate in the UK just three years after completing a prison sentence in Romania for a “strikingly similar” killing.’
BBC News, 21st August 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Prince Harry and six other public figures face paying up to £34.5m to the publisher of the Daily Mail after a High Court judge imposed an exceptional order for legal costs over their failed privacy case.’
BBC News, 21st August 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A scheme that could see serious sexual and violent offenders confined to areas just a few miles wide after leaving prison will be launched in October, Justice Secretary Alex Norris has announced.’
BBC News, 23rd August 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘When does taking account of a Coroner’s view become an unlawful abdication of another body’s own responsibilities?’
Parklane Plowden, 17th August 2026
Source: www.parklaneplowden.co.uk
‘This is an Administrative Court decision concerns the interaction between immigration deportation procedures and eligibility for Home Detention Curfew (HDC). The court held that a prisoner is not disqualified from HDC merely because they have been served with a “Stage 1” deportation notice. A Stage 1 notice is only a notification of liability to deportation; it is not a “decision to make a deportation order” within the meaning of section 259(a) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.’
Park Square Barristers, 13th August 2026
Source: www.parksquarebarristers.co.uk
‘A senior manager at Associated British Ports has won an unfair dismissal case after he was overheard berating his boss behind his back to another colleague.’
The Independent, 20th August 2026
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Detectives have closed a review into whether fentanyl murderer Luke D’Wit was a serial killer, the BBC can reveal.’
BBC News, 21st August 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
High Court (Chancery Division)
El Debs & Ors v Coughlan [2026] EWHC 2160 (Ch) (20 August 2026)
Ahmed & Anor v Uddin & Ors [2026] EWHC 2196 (Ch) (19 August 2026)
High Court (Family Division)
A, M and C (Return to Portugal), Re [2026] EWHC 2087 (Fam) (31 July 2026)
High Court (Patents Court)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘The KC facing contempt of court proceedings for his closing speech has broken his silence to warn about the “chilling effect” his case is having on criminal defence lawyers.’
Legal Futures, 20th August 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Not every case changes you. This one did, says Amiot Vollenweider, who explains how he accommodated, pro bono, one of the longest-running divorces in English legal history into his practice – and what he gained.’
Counsel, 17th August 2026
Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk
‘In January, I set up a working group with experts across law, neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology to ask the question: is society best served by bringing children, who are alleged to have committed offences, within the criminal justice system, or can the aims of the state in relation to these children be better met by some other means?’
Counsel, 17th August 2026
Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk
‘The implications of the development of artificial intelligence on the judiciary and the legal profession’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 18th August 2026
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has this week (18 August) published a new report outlining its expectations for the responsible use of facial recognition technology (FRT) by law enforcement, including the need for “lawful, proportionate and accountable deployment” supported by effective safeguards.’
Local Government Lawyer, 19th August 2026
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘James Norman looks at the lessons from a recent case where the local authority contended that the threshold criteria were satisfied on the basis of actions of the mother toward her son during his treatment in hospital.’
Local Government Lawyer, 19th August 2026
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Most competitions run by local authorities attract UK bidders, and the question of who is owed statutory duties never arises. It arises more often than it used to. Waste, energy, highways, digital systems and construction supply chains now draw in suppliers established outside the UK, not all of them from states with a procurement agreement with us. When one loses and complains, the first question is not whether the evaluation was sound. It is whether the authority owed it anything at all.’
Local Government Lawyer, 19th August 2026
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal gives clarity on Wells sharing and that it was never really intended for this to be as a ‘last resort’ or that a ‘minority element; it is to be required. The objective is to achieve a fair balance and distribution of liquid (realisable) and illiquid (risk laden) assets in all the circumstances of the case, and this does not necessarily mean there will be a clean break.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 19th August 2026
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
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