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The House of Lords rejected the Government’s controversial amendments dealing with extreme climate protest on Monday, the sixth and last day of the Report stage of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

Michael Zander QC considers the Justice Secretary’s plans for a modern Bill of Rights

The Cabinet Office has been fined £500,000 for disclosing postal addresses of the 2020 New Year Honours recipients online, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed.

In a series of high-level roundtables organised by LexisNexis and the National Council for the Evaluation of Regulations, lawyers, a former Prime Minister, ministers, government officials, MPs and academics debated on how best to draft law

While political sleaze hit the headlines this week, lawyers have been fighting to preserve accountability of public bodies on a separate front

Ministers ‘have grown accustomed to the ease with which laws can be made… and seem reluctant to relinquish law-making functions back to Parliament’ now the initial stages of the pandemic have passed, the Bingham Centre has warned

Dominic Raab has used his first Conservative Party conference speech as Lord Chancellor to announce an ‘overhaul’ of the Human Rights Act before the next general election

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published the speech delivered by the Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, on 1 October 2021 at Westminster Hall to mark the Opening of the Legal Year

David Greene compares & contrasts the new Lord Chancellor to his predecessors

Declining status of Lord Chancellor

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

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Online safety against serious harm

Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn

Law reform ahead

Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission

Bullying & harassment at the Bar

The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found

The Sentencing Bill: Crime & punishment revisited

Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release

Changing faces

David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle

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Constitutional law

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr