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Almost 40,000 offenders will be subject to electronic monitoring at any given time under a major expansion of tagging technology at the centre of forthcoming sentencing reforms. Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, is reported to have secured £700 million in funding from the chancellor, Rac

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Hundreds of thousands of legal aid applicants in England and Wales have had their personal data stolen in a cyber-attack. The Ministry of Justice today announced that hackers had "accessed and downloaded a significant amount of personal data from those who applied for legal aid through our digital s

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A lawyer who led a recent review of the UK's miscarriages of justice body has said it is “absolutely inevitable” that further miscarriages of justice will come to light following the quashing of Peter Sullivan’s murder conviction after nearly four decades in prison. Mr Sullivan was

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The High Court in London has begun hearing a legal challenge to the UK's continued supply of F-35 fighter jet components to Israel. The Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq allege that the UK government is breaking both domestic and international law by

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An English High Court judge has referred solicitors and a barrister to their professional regulators after discovering that five non-existent case citations were knowingly submitted to the court in a judicial review. Mr Justice Ritchie said the lawyers involved in Ayinde, R v The London Borough of H

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The solicitors' regulatory body in England and Wales has authorised the first law firm providing legal services through AI. While many firms are already using AI to support and deliver a range of back-office and public-facing services, Garfield.Law Ltd is the first purely AI-based firm authorised to

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The UK government has lost an appeal over the lawfulness of controversial anti-protest regulations in England and Wales. As home secretary, Suella Braverman introduced regulations in June 2023 which significantly reduced the threshold at which the police could impose almost-unlimited conditions on p

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AI-powered "nudification" apps should be banned because of their impact on children's safety, wellbeing and participation online, the children's rights watchdog in England has said. A new report from the English children's commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, warns that while creating or sharing a se

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The UK's privacy regulator has imposed a £60,000 fine on an English law firm following a cyber attack that led to highly sensitive and confidential personal information being published on the dark web. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found that Merseyside-based DPP Law Ltd had 

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A man who claimed he needed a £26,000 per year meal allowance as part of his divorce settlement from his multimillionaire wife because he cannot even make an omelette has been instructed by a judge to learn how to cook. Mr Justice Francis in the High Court told Simon Entwistle, a City trader,

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The body responsible for advising judges on criminal sentences in England and Wales has pushed back against the justice secretary’s call to scrap new guidance on sentencing offenders from minority groups. The Sentencing Council said that ministers from both major parties or their representativ

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Police in England acted unlawfully in arresting a trainee Baptist minister who shouted “Who elected him?” at a proclamation of the accession of King Charles III. Symon Hill, 47, has received £2,500 in compensation from Thames Valley police over the incident in September 2022. 

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