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• Data page – April 2025

  17-04-2025 16:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
  
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• Representative proceedings

  05-05-2025 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Civil litigation.
  
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• Express financial remedy procedure

  05-05-2025 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Family law.
  
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• The Guardian view on Israel’s aid blockade of Gaza: hunger as a weapon of war | Editorial

  04-05-2025 19:30
  
  Conditions are increasingly desperate. The resumption of humanitarian relief is essential to save civilian livesShameful. That was the word that Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s foreign minister, used to describe proceedings at the international court of justice (ICJ) last Monday. The United Nations asked the court to determine whether Israel must allow aid to enter Gaza, two months after it cut it off again just before the ceasefire deal collapsed. Supplies are running out. Unicef says that t
  
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• Labour promised trans people dignity. I am not sure it knows the meaning of the word | Nicky Bandini

  04-05-2025 16:00
  The terror I felt after coming out as a trans woman was assuaged by the acceptance I encountered in the real world. Someone should let our policymakers know To be a transgender person in the UK over the past two weeks has been to wake up daily to discussions on how your life must be made smaller. The supreme court ruled on 16 April that references to a person’s sex in the Equality Act 2010 should be interpreted as referring only to “biological sex”. Since then, we have learned
  
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• Ministers reconsider changes to UK copyright law ahead of vote

  04-05-2025 08:00
  
  Exclusive: Proposals to introduce opt-out system of copyright rules no longer preferred option amid criticism from creative industriesMinisters are rethinking changes to copyright law before a vote in parliament next week, in a further concession to artists, the Guardian has learned.A source close to Peter Kyle, the technology secretary, said proposals to introduce an opt-out system of copyright rules was no longer his preferred option but one of several being given consideration. Continue readi
  
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• Spin doctors: gambling firms adopt hard tactics to flood towns with 24-hour slot machines

  04-05-2025 07:00
  
  Companies deploy highly-paid lawyers and appear to mislead councillors – but local authorities are fighting backIt is almost 2am in Peterborough and a handful of punters are wordlessly feeding their money into the machines at Merkur Slots.A fragment of a song, the lyric “nothing to lose”, drifts through the shop as their funds rapidly evaporate. Closing time is fast approaching, but that does not mean the end of the gambling. Continue reading...
  
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• Cramped Victorian prisons limiting rehabilitation, chief inspector says

  03-05-2025 09:00
  Charlie Taylor says old, overcrowded jails in England and Wales were never designed for education and trainingThe cramped conditions of Victorian prisons in England and Wales are limiting the rehabilitation opportunities for thousands of offenders, an official watchdog has said.As the Guardian launches a visual investigation into the state of Victorian prisons in inner cities and towns, the chief inspector of prisons, Charlie Taylor, said 19th century jails could also be “incredibly noisy
  
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• 31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation

  03-05-2025 09:00
  Many jails still in use today were built by the Victorians. Here’s how their 19th-century design is contributing to a 21st-century crisisEngland in the 1840s was a place of dizzying industry, rapid urbanisation and technological progress.Among the proliferation of inventions, a new type of building was unveiled to the world. A prison, K-shaped with long corridors made of sure, thick walls, and small windows in cold, solitary cells.The new prison will be most conducive to the reformation of
  
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• Does human rights law really stop the UK controlling migration? No – and Keir Starmer knows that | Jamie Burton

  03-05-2025 07:00
  It would be wrong for Labour to collude in the attack on the European convention. It’s fuelled by myths and false narrativesHere’s a recent quote from a Downing Street source: “We have to be able to say something on this that isn’t just defending the status quo.”The aide was discussing the European convention on human rights (ECHR), a postwar treaty to protect the freedoms of people in Europe, ratified by the UK in 1951. Although it was also central to Keir Starmer&
  
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• Trump order targeting law firm Perkins Coie is unconstitutional, judge rules

  03-05-2025 03:27
  US district judge Beryl Howell says order violates first, fifth and sixth amendments and permanently blocks it A federal judge on Friday permanently struck down Donald Trump’s executive order that targeted the firm Perkins Coie, which once worked with his 2016 presidential election rival Hillary Clinton, after declaring in an extraordinary ruling that the order was unconstitutional and unlawful.The decision from the US district judge Beryl Howell, which criticized virtually every aspect of
  
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• US asks judge to break up Google’s ad tech business after requesting Chrome sale

  03-05-2025 00:00
  
  After Google lost its first monopoly trial, government asks it to sell off units of its core internet ads businessGoogle on Friday faced a demand by the US government to break up its hugely profitable ad technology business. The request came after a judge found the tech giant was commanding an illegal monopoly for the second time in less than a year.“We have a defendant who has found ways to defy” the law, US government lawyer Julia Tarver Wood told a federal court in Virginia, as sh
  
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• Puerto Rico drops climate lawsuit after DoJ sues states to block threats to big oil

  02-05-2025 22:43
  
  Territory’s voluntary move comes as Trump administration makes good on pledge to end lawsuits against oil and gasPuerto Rico has voluntarily dismissed its 2024 climate lawsuit against big oil, a Friday legal filing shows, just two days after the US justice department sued two states over planned litigation against oil companies for their role in the climate crisis.Puerto Rico’s lawsuit, filed in July, alleged that the oil and gas giants had misled the public about the climate dangers
  
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• Governors have lost control of prison in Staffordshire, union says

  02-05-2025 16:37
  Prison Officers’ Association claims officer was stabbed in head and two others punched in face at HMP Swinfen HallGovernors have been accused of losing control of a Staffordshire jail after a union claimed that a male officer was stabbed in the head and two female colleagues were punched in the face during serious disturbances on Tuesday.The Prison Officers’ Association is demanding a clearout of hidden makeshift weapons from HMP Swinfen Hall near Lichfield after a third outbreak of
  
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• Pam Bondi turning DoJ into Trump’s ‘personal law firm’, top experts warn

  02-05-2025 16:00
  Attorney general accused of targeting political foes, halting prosecutions and placing premium on loyalty to presidentDonald Trump’s Department of Justice has taken radical steps to target his political foes, back a harsh agenda against undocumented immigrants and help business allies – steps which underscore its politicization under the attorney general Pam Bondi and undermine the rule of law, say ex-prosecutors and legal experts.Some even say that the department has in effect becom
  
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• Judge throws out £2.4m confidentiality claim against firm

  02-05-2025 15:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Asylum seeker claimant failed to show there was a threat to his family from address being disclosed.
  
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• We fought and beat the government in the courts because every Briton has the right to protest | Akiko Hart

  02-05-2025 14:52
  The appeal court verdict makes clear these anti-protest laws should never have existed. Labour must now reflect on what sort of democracy it wants us to beAkiko Hart is the director of the human rights organisation LibertyWhen we beat the Conservative government over its anti-democratic protest laws in court last year, we thought that would be the end of the story. Judges in the high court had made it very clear that laws that gave the police almost unlimited powers to crack down on any protest
  
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• Campaigners claim victory as judges quash Braverman move against protests

  02-05-2025 13:58
  Appeal court backs ruling against home secretary’s redefinition of when police could put limits on protestersCivil rights campaigners have hailed a “huge victory for democracy” after the court of appeal upheld the quashing of a key anti-protest regulation they said was introduced unlawfully.The government had appealed against a high court ruling that the previous Tory home secretary, Suella Braverman, did not have the power to redefine “serious disruption” as &ldquo
  
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• Jobs at risk as BCLP 'streamlines operations'

  02-05-2025 12:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Transatlantic firm announces 'strategic initiatives to streamline operations and appropriately reshape teams'.
  
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• MoJ review finds Legal Aid Agency 'useful and necessary'

  02-05-2025 10:57 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Assessment was carried out shortly after Labour came into power to provide assurance that LAA is aligned with government priorities.
  
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• Mail sting solicitor 'destroyed' by disciplinary proceedings

  02-05-2025 10:24 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  SRA interventions should be sanctioned by the High Court, argues Gregory Treverton-Jones KC.
  
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• Court halts dispute between personal injury giants

  02-05-2025 08:51 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judge rejects allegations that appointment of directors to legal business was a sham.
  
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• Nine journalist Nick McKenzie allegedly told of Ben Roberts-Smith’s planned legal action

  02-05-2025 08:40
  Roberts-Smith argues his unsuccessful defamation case against McKenzie and Nine newspapers should be retried because of a ‘miscarriage of justice’Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe Nine journalist Nick McKenzie was told about a legal action war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith planned to take ahead of his defamation trial, a court has heard, with the informant allegedly telling him “it’s always good to be on the front foot”.On Tuesday the f
  
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• Most miscarriage of justice applicants unrepresented, CCRC chief tells MPs

  02-05-2025 02:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Criminal Cases Review Commission bosses defend organisation's performance at Commons justice committee.
  
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• Apprenticeships: Wales 'losing home-grown talent' to England

  02-05-2025 02:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society Wales office says Level 7 apprenticeships would boost access to justice.
  
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• Keystone shareholders in line for windfall after positive year

  01-05-2025 13:26 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Listed consultancy law firm, where lawyers are paid up to 75% of what they bill, reports profits up 12% in 2024.
  
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• Magistrate given formal warning after trial aborted

  01-05-2025 12:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judicial Conduct Investigations Office says the magistrate’s failure to report his involvement in court proceedings resulted in ‘operational harm’.
  
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• No reduction in awarded costs in ‘Wagatha’ alleged misconduct appeal

  01-05-2025 11:54 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Mr Justice Cavanagh gives his ruling on consequential matters following the dismissal of Rebekah Vardy’s appeal.
  
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• Trump tells firms to work for free defending US police officers

  01-05-2025 11:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Latest executive order states that private sector will be used to protect police from prosecution.
  
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• International firm escapes contempt penalty over judgment leak

  01-05-2025 10:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  High Court judge tells Fieldfisher that embarrassment is sufficient punishment for its 'big mistake'.
  
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