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Call to release Iranian lawyers
The Law Society, together with campaign group Lawyers for Lawyers, has called on the Iranian government to halt the arbitrary arrest, detention and ill treatment of lawyers. 
18 October 2022
Book review: The Mandela Brief Premium Content
"One feels that one is experiencing some of the horror of living under an evil regime and what it takes to oppose such a regime as a lawyer."
23 September 2022 / Michael Zander KC
Landmark care challenge
A former looked-after child can bring a human rights claim against council authorities for failing to remove him from the care of his mother soon enough, the Court of Appeal has agreed.
21 September 2022
Rangers fandom not a philosophy
Lifelong support for Glasgow Rangers Football Club is not enough to pass the ‘philosophical belief’ test under the Equality Act 2010, an employment tribunal has ruled.
21 September 2022
Bill of Rights quietly dropped?
The second reading of the government’s Bill of Rights Bill did not go ahead as scheduled.
21 September 2022
Neurodiversity & a shocking litany of wrongful convictions Premium Content
The justice system cruelly stacks the odds against the neurodivergent, says Jon Robins
29 July 2022 / Jon Robins
NLJ this week: Gamete donors & parental responsibility
Anthony Gold partner Fiona Lyon examines a recent Family Court case on sperm donors, in this week’s NLJ
29 July 2022
Out of order? Public assembly crackdown Premium Content
Neil Parpworth examines the new law on public processions & public assemblies
08 July 2022 / Neil Parpworth
Rights ‘regression’
The government ‘has failed to make the case for repealing and replacing the Human Rights Act with a Bill of Rights in the form proposed’, the chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), Joanna Cherry QC MP has warned
07 July 2022
Raab’s Bill of Rights condemned
Lawyers have branded the government’s proposals for a Bill of Rights ‘Orwellian’ and an ‘erosion of accountability’
24 June 2022
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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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