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Lockdown laws from a loving perspective, by Peter Thompson QC

The Court of Appeal has provided clarity on the Art 2 obligations of the State to protect life where a person in a care home is the subject of a deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS) authorisation and may have died following errors in medical care and treatment

Five years on from its establishment, Mike Schwarz reflects on the Undercover Policing Inquiry

Former Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC has been appointed a Visiting Professor in Law at Goldsmiths, University of London, which is launching an undergraduate LLB Law with Politics and Human Rights at Goldsmiths

Theo Huckle QC, Nick Brown and Frederick Powell

Tori Adams & Killian Moran discuss claims of unlawful detention and the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures

Applicants for the JUSTICE summer and autumn internships, both paid positions, have just days left to submit their applications―the closing date is 15 May at 10pm

Laura Davidson discusses an urgent Court of Protection hearing held over Skype which demonstrates the powerful & competing rights & interests of care home residents lawfully deprived of their liberty during the coronavirus pandemic

A proposed contact tracing app for COVID-19 raises ‘significant concerns’ regarding privacy and human rights, a committee of MPs and Peers has concluded

Michael Zander reports on a new (definitely unwanted) problem for the government

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Arc Pensions Law—Richard Meers

Pensions litigation team announces senior associate hire

Burges Salmon—Neil Demuth

Firm appoints new chief financial officer

Anthony Collins—Sue Bearman

Social purpose firm announces director hire plus eight promotions

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Tribute to Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC

Human rights lawyers, social justice champion, co-founder of the law firm Bindmans, and NLJ columnist Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC has died at the age of 92 years

NLJ this week: Shareholder secrecy sunk

Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'

NLJ this week: The expanding remit of national security law

In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains

NLJ this week: Trauma-informed pro bono

In NLJ this week, Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre marks Pro Bono Week by urging lawyers to recognise the emotional toll of pro bono work

NLJ this week: When leases last hours

Can a lease legally last only days—or even hours? Professor Mark Pawlowski of the University of Greenwich explores the question in this week's NLJ

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Human rights

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Richard Meers

Burges Salmon—Neil Demuth

Anthony Collins—Sue Bearman