‘In O’Connell, Christopher Kennedy KC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, dismissed claims in negligence and under the Animals Act 1971 brought by a former gunner in the Royal Horse Artillery. He also found that the claim was fundamentally dishonest.’

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1 QMLR, 3rd October 2025

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‘A litigant in person (LiP) who was “extremely abusive” to a district judge in a family case and made “direct threats of physical violence” has been jailed for four months for contempt in the face of the court.’

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Legal Futures, 2nd October 2025

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‘Civil liberty groups have expressed concern over government plans to hand police greater powers to restrict protests as organisers of mass demonstrations against the banning of Palestine Action pledged a “major escalation” of their campaign.’

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The Guardian, 5th October 2025

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‘Grandparents who murdered their two-year-old grandson had a “campaign to break” him and did not like it when he stood up for himself, a judge has said as he jailed them for life.’

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BBC News, 3rd October 2025

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‘The Legal Services Board is convening a meeting of the frontline regulators next week to discuss the continuing fall-out from the Mazur ruling, Legal Futures can reveal.’

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Legal Futures, 3rd October 2025

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‘A father who murdered his two-week-old baby son on a neonatal ward has been jailed for life.’

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BBC News, 3rd October 2025

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‘Children are extremely vulnerable yet often treated as adults, measured by adult-centric conceptualisations of ‘guilt’ and expected to decide on their own culpability for law infringement. In addition, system agents incentivise children to admit guilt by offering contingent support or implying further consequences for refusal, resulting in a youth justice system that exacerbates this by requiring admissions of guilt throughout the process. We explore difficulties of applying adult-centric understandings of ‘guilt’ to children through our typology of guilt, which examines responses children might give to questions of guilt and asks whether applying adult-centric notions of guilt erodes ‘Child First’ youth justice.’

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Youth Justice, 1st October 2025

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‘What progress have bills announced in the 2024 King’s Speech made in the current Parliament?’

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House of Commons Library, 2nd October 2025

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‘On 7 July 2022, Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned, and the Conservative Party announced a Leadership Election on 5 September to decide who would replace him as Prime Minister.Footnote1 During this leadership election, Tortoise Media became concerned after reading reports that GCHQ (the Government Intelligence Service) ‘had been in contact with the Conservative Party to ensure the safe conduct of the leadership election’.Footnote2 This action taken by GCHQ is significant because political parties in the UK, as in other commonwealth jurisdictions such as Australia and Canada, are private, unincorporated associations.Footnote3 It was therefore for the Conservative Party to run the process under its own rules.Footnote4 The bodies of election law that apply in general elections, such as the Political Parties, Elections, and Referendums Act 2000, do not apply to internal party processes, even when the leader of the party will become Prime Minister.’

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Judicial Review, 29th September 2025

Source: www.tandfonline.com

‘Possession of a chattel is sufficient to create a title to it. This article considers the nature and justification of these titles. It argues that popular justifications of possessory title fall short and offers a more appealing justification. The article then seeks to resolve, in light of that justification, three ongoing doctrinal controversies about a possessory title’s nature: whether it continues to exist after possession of the chattel is lost; whether it is transferable; and whether it includes a right that others not interfere with a possessor’s use of the chattel.’

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Cambridge Law Journal, 3rd October 2025

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‘Many causes of action may attach liability to the publication of public allegations, defamation, contempt of court, breach of confidence and privacy being chief amongst them. The role of truth in providing a defence to, or denying liability for, each of these causes of action varies. For example, proof of substantial truth is a complete defence to the tort of defamation but truth or falsity has been considered to be irrelevant to misuse of private information. This article analyses the role of truth in each of these causes of action and considers whether there is any scope for a more coherent approach to the treatment of truth when making public allegations.’

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Journal of Media Law, 2nd October 2025

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‘Coercive control can include isolating a person from friends and family, monitoring their time and taking control over aspects of their everyday life – such as where they can go, who they can see, what they can wear and when they can sleep.’

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BBC News, 2nd October 2025

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‘The death of Ella Kissi-Debrah in 2013 will be forever notable as the first instance in the United Kingdom of air pollution being recorded as contributing to the death of an individual. Whilst in itself a monumental shift in consideration of air pollution and the impact on human health, the recording by the coroner of Ella’s death as having been contributed to by air pollution has significant human rights implications. This piece considers the circumstances surrounding both Ella’s death and the report of the coroner and connects these to decisions of the European Court of Human Rights. It presents the argument that the failure to address a known risk to life presented by air pollution could constitute a breach of the right to life protected by Article 2 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). Cases in which environmental conditions are found by the Court to have breached Article 2 are rare, but this paper contends that the formal acknowledgement of the threat of air pollution as a result of Ella’s death means that failure to address it meets this threshold.’

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Legal Studies, 26th September 2025

Source: www.cambridge.org

‘The courts’ interpretation of human rights law must come under government scrutiny, the prime minister said today. In broadcast interviews following his party conference speech – which contained no explicit mention of the European Convention on Human Rights – Sir Keir Starmer said ‘we need to look again at the interpretation’ of international laws by UK courts.’

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Law Society's Gazette, 1st October 2025

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘The UK government is looking to reduce the pay disparity between directly-employed staff of end-user client organisations and those who work for outsourced service providers, particularly in ex-public sector roles.’

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OUT-LAW.com, 1st October 2025

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‘A man who “married” a 15-year-old girl in an Islamic wedding ceremony is among eight men to have been found guilty of sexual offences against her.’

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BBC News, 2nd October 2025

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‘A litigant in person (LiP) who was “extremely abusive” to a district judge in a family case and made “direct threats of physical violence” has been jailed for four months for contempt in the face of the court.’

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Legal Futures, 2nd October 2025

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‘Five men have been jailed after exploiting people through romance fraud and stealing more than £2m in a money laundering operation.’

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BBC News, 30th September 2025

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