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19 November 2025
Issue: 8140 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Charities , Career focus
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LawCare board seeks new trustees

LawCare, the wellbeing and mental health charity for legal professionals, is looking for four new trustees for its board

Successful applicants will have a chance to help shape this small but vitally important charity’s policies, goals and targets. LawCare provides free, confidential support, advocates for change in legal workplaces and collaborates with other organisations in the sector to research working practices and mental health. Board meetings are held four times a year.

Visit lawcare.org.uk/vacancies for more information on how to apply. The application and monitoring form must be returned to admin@lawcare.org.uk by midnight on 14 December 2025.

Issue: 8140 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Charities , Career focus
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Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
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