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Northern Ireland made history this week, legalising same-sex marriage and decriminalising abortion.

MPs are restricting advice surgeries with constituents and many are increasingly reluctant to use public transport alone in response to threats and abuse, according to an alarming Human Rights Committee report published last week.

The Human Rights Act, which enacts the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law, may come under attack again in the current ‘isolationist’ climate, Geoffrey Bindman QC has warned.

Can positive human rights make buildings safe after Grenfell? By Professor Susan Bright & Dr Douglas Maxwell

Justice campaigners in Hong Kong are appealing for assistance from UK lawyers with experience of private prosecutions

Geoffrey Bindman believes the Treason Act is an anomaly & of little relevance to life today

Should doctors, parents or judges be the final arbiter about the future of a terminally ill or incurably ill child? David Edwardes-Ker

Ruth Mullen explores & explains the tortuous rules which govern the lives of migrants wishing to live permanently in the UK

Equality laws must tackle institutional and systemic discrimination rather than relying on individual litigation to create precedents, an approach that ‘dates back to the 1960s’, MPs have said.

How far does the state’s duty of care extend in protecting detained patients—both voluntary & involuntary—from self-harm? Laura Davidson investigates

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Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

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NLJ this week: Renters’ Rights revolution begins—brace for tribunal chaos

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

NLJ this week: Civil procedure gets a spring overhaul

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation

NLJ this week: Why GP complaints are going nowhere

Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group

NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall

A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision

NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?

An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading

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Human rights

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Blake Morgan—four promotions