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Legally TGV? Premium Content
Alec Samuels discusses the new principle for the town and village green
21 May 2021 / Alec Samuels
Public Order Act: crossing the (thin blue) line? Premium Content
Public processions, public assemblies & extending police powers. Neil Parpworth discusses proposed changes to the provisions in the Public Order Act 1986
14 May 2021 / Neil Parpworth
How ‘public’ are public inquiries? Premium Content
Accessibility & accountability in inquiries must remain paramount despite the demands of COVID measures, argue Helen Stone & Eleanor Cornish
14 May 2021 / Helen Stone, Hickman & Rose / Eleanor Cornish
NLJ this week: The important role of public inquiries and why online may not cut it
Public inquiries are a crucial element of the UK’s democratic system, Helen Stone and Eleanor Cornish, civil litigation solicitors at Hickman & Rose, write in this week’s NLJ. 
14 May 2021
A Bill that has a bit of everything… (Pt 3) Premium Content
Michael Zander concludes his account of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
05 May 2021 / Michael Zander KC
COVID-19 & the right to silence Premium Content
Amid the proliferation of COVID-related powers around the country, what of the long-standing common law right to silence? Nicholas Dobson reports
05 May 2021 / Nicholas Dobson
Bats at risk from HS2
Environmental protesters have lost their legal case to protect rare barbastelle bats roosting in the path of the High Speed Two (HS2) rail link.
28 April 2021
COVID-19 fines not fair
The rules on fixed penalty notices (FPNs) for contravention of COVID-19 restrictions are ‘muddled, discriminatory and unfair’, MPs and peers have warned.
28 April 2021
LNB News: Coronavirus (COVID-19) laws and offences scrutinised by Justice Committee
The Justice Committee has started to investigate how the laws designed to limit the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) have worked in practice and how they might be improved going forward. 
22 April 2021
Judicial review stats ‘incorrect’
The Public Law Project (PLP) has accused the government of using ‘flawed’ statistics in the judicial review reform process.
21 April 2021
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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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