Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Johnson & Johnson has an enterprise value of $375bn. Yet it wants you to think of it as an underdog. Earlier this month, the healthcare titan announced that it had reached the outlines of a …
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Navigating the choppy waters of co-parenting is challenging under the best circumstances. But when coupled with feelings of loneliness, the pressures can magnify, increasing the risk of substance abuse and addiction. This delicate dynamic of loneliness and substance abuse is not just a personal struggle but often a silent one, hidden behind the daily routines …
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No one wants to be divorced. Let’s start with that. But, it happens and from what I remember, all I could think of at the time was the downside of being divorced: being a single mom, worrying about the kids, having to go back to work, wondering if I was going to be alone forever, …
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Specialist solicitors are divided over the government’s decision to introduce criminal offences for causing death by cycling, with critics stressing that most road deaths are caused by drivers. Ministers have backed an amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill, put forward by former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP, to introduce the ‘offence of causing …
Susie Alegre is an international human rights lawyer and author, originally from the Isle of Man, whose focus in recent years has been on technology and its impact on human rights. As a legal expert she has advised Amnesty International, the UN and other organisations on issues such as counter-terrorism and anti-corruption. Her first book, …
The government will drop plans to criminalise rough sleepers for being deemed a nuisance or having an excessive smell after Tory MPs threatened a revolt over the proposals. The plans, originally announced by the then home secretary, Suella Braverman, had been condemned by homeless charities as dehumanising. The criminal justice bill, which returns to the …
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How did Labour let its most life-transforming policy get more publicity for its suspected “watering down” than it ever got for the policy itself? Today, Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner will meet the unions to assure them the new deal for working people is as radical as ever: an agreed, detailed policy document follows soon. …
The Ministry of Justice has not ruled out mandatory mediation for higher value county court claims, a senior official confirmed last week as the MoJ prepares to roll out a new requirement to mediate in low-value money claims this month. Speaking at a Westminster Legal Policy Forum conference on ‘next steps for dispute resolution’, MoJ …
Tougher laws promised by the government to protect children from sexual abuse will not apply to doctors, teachers or nurses, it has been revealed. The long-awaited “duty to report” legislation falls far below recommendations by the seven-year independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) and has triggered outrage from campaigners, lawyers and survivors of abuse. …
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