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A Joint Committee on Human Rights report, ‘Black people, racism and human rights’, published this week, has drawn stark conclusions on inequalities in healthcare, criminal justice, immigration and democracy
11 November 2020
The Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission - call for evidence
Lawyers have until 16 November 2020 to submit their views on what issues the government should focus on when it forms the Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission
27 October 2020
The Overseas Operations Bill: Much to defend Premium Content
In the public interest? Michael Zander considers the government’s Overseas Operations Bill
08 October 2020 / Michael Zander KC
Human Rights ‘updating’
The government is planning ‘an independent review into the operation of the Human Rights Act’, which will take place ‘in due course’, the Lord Chancellor, Robert Buckland QC has confirmed in a letter replying to Harriet Harman, Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights.
06 October 2020
NLJ this week: Reflections on slavery
The disturbing story of how the law came to support the trans-Atlantic slave trade is told in NLJ this week
01 October 2020
How the law came to support slavery Premium Content
Satvinder Juss investigates the shocking legal justifications that were used to excuse slavery
30 September 2020 / Satvinder S Juss
Bereavement reform for cohabitees
Cohabiting partners will be entitled to a bereavement payment along with married partners next week, following a change to the Fatal Accident Act
29 September 2020
Deportation ruled unlawful
Home Office under fire for treatment of asylum seeker
29 September 2020
Row brewing over Coronavirus Act
Coalition of civil rights groups call for Act to be scrapped
29 September 2020
Potential COVID-19 breaches: PPE, visits, and test & trace app
The government could have breached human rights by failing to provide adequate PPE to doctors, nurses, care workers and others in the frontline, a parliamentary committee has warned
20 September 2020
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Costs judge within limits but litigants warned
A deputy costs judge correctly exercised his discretion to allow late service rather than strike out the point of dispute, the Court of Appeal has held
Prince Harry's claim falls short
Prince Harry, Baroness Doreen Lawrence and five others have lost their case against the publisher of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, in Various Claimants v Associated Newspapers [2026] EWHC 1637 (KB)
Making the case for open justice data
Public confidence in the justice system is being undermined by a lack of accessible, useable data, magistrates have warned
First immigration sentencing guidelines set out
The Sentencing Council has launched draft guidelines for facilitation and endangering another person during a sea crossing to the UK
Legal advice on workplace non-disclosure agreements
Government proposals to make independent written legal advice a prerequisite for workplace non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) may prove unworkable, according to a senior employment lawyer
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