Courts, Tribunals & Judiciary

Articles

20 Jul 2023

Denial of landlord’s title: an outdated relic?

Mark Pawlowski asks whether the time has come to abandon the law on denial of landlord's title as an outmoded relic of the past.

17 Jul 2023

MoJ: call for evidence

The UK's Ministry of Justice is seeking evidence on a range of topics covering open justice, access to data, and the transparency of court and tribunal services.

14 Jul 2023

Walking a tightrope: policing and legislating public order

Emelia Bezant-Gahan analyses the UK's recent public order legislation, its implications for the right to protest and competing human rights issues.

14 Jul 2023

Lawyers say more should be done to reduce gender inequality

Research by the Next 100 Years project has found that less than half of women in the legal profession feel current measures to improve equality in the workplace are effective.

14 Jul 2023

Practice guidance on non-molestation injunctions issued

New guidance from the Family Division focuses on the issuance of non-molestation injunctions where an order is made without notice to the respondent.

13 Jul 2023

New law allows unlimited penalties for polluters

The government has scrapped the cap on civil penalties and significantly broadened their scope to target a much wider range of environmental offences.

13 Jul 2023

Human rights advocates condemn UK's Illegal Migration Bill

The bill will effectively extinguish the right to seek asylum in the UK, say lawyers who have examined the proposed legislation on behalf of human rights charity, Freedom from Torture.

12 Jul 2023

Sentencing Council announces new guidelines

For the first time, judges and magistrates will have guidelines to assist in sentencing perverting the course of justice and witness intimidation offences.