The lengthy multi-year sentences handed to Just Stop Oil activists are “not acceptable in a democracy”, a UN special rapporteur has said, as the government faced growing pressure to reverse the previous administration’s “hardline anti-protest” approach. Michel Forst, the UN special rapporteur for environmental defenders, joined a growing chorus of voices condemning the sentences handed …
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Post Office misled us ahead of litigation, says former government minister Kelly Tolhurst
A former minister overseeing the Post Office has admitted that legal advice on the group litigation was ‘utterly incorrect’ but insisted that the government could not interfere in the process. Kelly Tolhurst, who was a Conservative junior minister for postal affairs from July 2018 to February 2020, was in post during the disastrous Bates litigation robustly …
Civil litigation: Costs risks of pleading fraud or dishonesty
In May, the Court of Appeal considered the issue of indemnity costs where allegations of dishonesty failed in Thakkar v Mican [2024] EWCA Civ 552. While the underlying case related to personal injury following a road traffic accident, it offers an opportunity to consider the risks of pleading fraud or dishonesty and in what circumstances …
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7 Tips for Living Together During Divorce
Are you living together during divorce? This can be a tough situation. After all, you’ve decided you want a divorce. You want to be separate. But what happens when neither you or your spouse wants to or are able to actually move out? There are so many reasons a couple might remain living together during …
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UK’s FCA shakes up listing regulations to attract more companies
Contempt, gagging and UN intervention: inside the UK’s wildest climate trial | Just Stop Oil
As part of his role as UN rapporteur for environmental defenders, Michel Forst has been watching proceedings against climate activists at courts across Europe. But he may not have seen anything like what unfolded at Southwark crown court in London over the past two and a half weeks, where five Just Stop Oil activists were …
Sunak government freed more than 10,000 prisoners up to 70 days early | Prisons and probation
Rishi Sunak’s government released more than 10,000 prisoners up to 70 days early, figures reveal, as the new justice secretary prepares to announce further emergency measures to ease another overcrowding crisis in jails. Ministry of Justice figures show that 10,083 prisoners were allowed to walk free under the end of custody supervised licence (ECSL) scheme …
Prisons crisis must not jeopardise Labour’s pledge on domestic abuse, Starmer told | Violence agains…
Keir Starmer’s pledge to halve violence against women will put more pressure on prisons, a Home Office adviser has warned, adding that there could be an additional 10,000 domestic abuse convictions if just one in three victims come forward. Nicole Jacobs, the government’s domestic abuse commissioner, has written to the prime minister to highlight that …
‘All threats to the sea come from humans’: how lawyers are gearing up to fight for the oceans | Mari…
A few years ago, Anna von Rebay gave up her lucrative job in a corporate law firm specialising in art law to concentrate on her passion for the ocean. “All threats to the sea come from humans, who behave as though nature is nothing more than a resource,” says Von Rebay, who works in Germany …
‘Absurd’ £208m claimant costs budget in £6bn dieselgate claim slashed by three quarters
Senior judges have taken a chainsaw to what they describe as ‘absurd’ and ’eye-watering’ cost budgets in a collective action potentially worth £6bn. Following a three-day costs hearing featuring 23 counsel, Mr Justice Constable (pictured) and Senior Costs Judge Gordon-Saker reduced the claimants’ costs budget from £208m to £52m and the defendants’ budget from £212m …