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The belief that sex is "biologically immutable" and transgender people should be treated and referred to as the sex they were assigned at birth is not a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010, a tribunal has ruled.

A lack of real competition to tech giants Google and Facebook could mean people are already missing out on the next new idea from a potential rival, the Competition and Markets Authority has said in a new report. Furthermore, the market position of Google and Facebook may potentially be undermi

The High Court in London has today ruled the £1,012 fee the Home Office charges children to register as British citizens is unlawful. In a case brought by the Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC), the court found a “mass of evidence” showing that the

Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to give British judges the power to overturn rulings of the European Court of Justice, The Times reports. Under Theresa May it was agreed that the acquis of EU law would be transferred into domestic law after Brexit. This would mean only the Supreme Court and High

Four part-time judges have succeeded against the Ministry of Justice in an appeal to the Supreme Court over their rights to a pension. The Supreme Court unanimously allows the appeals. Lord Carnwath gives the sole judgments, with which Lady Hale (President), Lord Reed (Deputy President) and Lord Wil

Senior judges and lawyers paid tribute to UK Supreme Court president Lady Hale today at a valedictory ceremony marking her retirement next month.

A prominent barrister has sold 7,000 bottles of wine from his private collection for £8 million at auction. Ian Mill QC, of Blackstone Chambers, has been collecting wine since 1985, four years after he called to the Bar of England and Wales, The Times reports.

Ways of assessing judicial potential that do not rely on experience of advocacy in the higher courts are necessary if more women are to join the bench, Lady Hale has said. Delivering the BACFI Denning Lecture 2019 in London, the President of the UK Supreme Court said that in order to achieve gender

Senior academics from across the UK have signed a letter in support of the prisoner reintegration programme Learning Together following the terrorist attack on London Bridge. In the letter, published by The Times, the authors say the Cambridge University programme "has been one of the few true succe

A house in central London worth £50 million will be sold as part of the National Crime Agency's (NCA) largest asset recovery settlement ever. The home at 1 Hyde Park Place will go on the market following a £190 million settlement that is the result of an investigation by the NCA int

The number of business-related laws passed by Westminster every year has halved since the Brexit referendum, according to new research. Researchers at Thomson Reuters have found that MPs approved 685 laws affecting business in the year to the end of September 2018, 21 per cent down on the previous y

Lawyers' groups have written to the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, over concerns about the detention of civilians, including lawyers, in Kashmir. The Bar Council of England and Wales and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales expressed "serious concern" over reports that civilian

A law firm must pay damages to the estate of a late coal miner who missed a chance of claiming compensation because he was given negligent advice, the UK Supreme Court has ruled. Arthur Watkins was an employee of British Coal from 1964 to 1985 and, as a result, developed the condition known as vibra

A new guide details the best practice on gender-neutral drafting for the legal profession. The publication has been prepared by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel and the Government Legal Department.

Computer algorithms must be regulated to ensure the digital world is not lawless, UK Supreme Court justice Lord Sales has said. Delivering the Sir Henry Brooke Lecture at the British and Irish Legal Information Institute, Lord Sales called for the creation of an expert commission to counter the &ldq