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Government plans for offender ‘restriction zones’ risk creating ‘digital cages’ that blur punishment with surveillance, warns Henrietta Ronson, partner at Corker Binning, in this week's issue of NLJ

Jon Robins reports on a petition to posthumously exonerate Christine Keeler

Restriction zones for released offenders present profound legal, ethical & practical difficulties, argues Henrietta Ronson

A future Conservative government would abolish the Sentencing Council and Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) and sack judges who defended migrants’ rights, shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has said

Twenty five years after coming into force, the Human Rights Act has embedded itself in UK law, strengthening rights without unsettling the constitution, writes Alistair Mills

Michael Zander KC, Emeritus Professor at LSE, tracks the turbulent passage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill through the House of Lords in this week's issue of NLJ. Two marathon debates drew contributions from nearly 200 peers, split between support, opposition and conditional approval

Alistair Mills of Landmark Chambers reflects on the Human Rights Act 1998 a quarter-century after it came into force, in this week's issue of NLJ

In the second part in a series tracking the passage of the Bill, Michael Zander KC reports on the current uncertainty

Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ

Charles Pigott on how the courts are applying the For Women Scotland ruling

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Laytons ETL—Scott Hilton & Simon Jones

City firm launches real estate corporate team to meet growing client demand

Talbots Law—Clare Regan & Lucy George

Midlands firm appoints head of real estate development

Charles Russell Speechlys—Libby Elliott

Corporate, restructuring and insolvency offering grows with partner hire

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Bill risks trauma for abuse survivors

Personal injury lawyers have urged parliamentarians to reject plans to enact an extra defence in civil cases where child sexual abuse is alleged

CILEX seeks litigation rights amid Mazur fallout

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has launched a post-Mazur regulatory review into litigation rights, and is fast-tracking an application from CILEX

Lawyers must be immune from suit, rules Court of Appeal

The Court of Appeal has upheld the principle of core immunity for advocates, in an important judgment

Legal bodies decry dangerous climate for lawyers

The Bars, Faculty of Advocates and law societies of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have come together to accuse politicians of putting lawyers at risk through their use of ‘irresponsible and dangerous’ language

TA6 property form returns, simplified & streamlined

The beleaguered TA6 property form has been re-released after almost a year of tests with a working group of residential conveyancers

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Human rights

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Laytons ETL—Scott Hilton & Simon Jones

Talbots Law—Clare Regan & Lucy George

Charles Russell Speechlys—Libby Elliott