The imprisonment of a 45-year-old woman who admitted to causing her own abortion during the lockdowns was “unlikely” to be just, senior judges have said. Carla Foster was given a 28-month prison term after obtaining tablets when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant.
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Terra Firma Chambers’ strength across its core practice areas has been recognised in the latest edition of Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide 2024. The stable has been ranked in six practice areas, retaining Band 1 rankings for Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Planning and Environmental Law,
There is a "plausible and credible case" that Israel is attempting to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a respected US-based legal advocacy organisation has said. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), founded in 1966 to provide legal support for the civil rights movement, published
Westwater Advocates and its members receive top rankings from Chambers & Partners in the 2024 edition of the Chambers UK Bar Guide. The stable has received 26 individual rankings across eight categories and is also recognised as a Band 1 stable in the practice areas of Employment and Family law.
Compass Chambers has once again been recognised as a leading set by Chambers UK in the latest edition of its directory. Compass has received 47 individual rankings in six practice area categories. Compass is also ranked Band 1 as a set in four categories – Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence,
This small book, with a big title, is commendable in several ways: it shows quite how many courts or tribunals and different types of case a member of the Bar, in the author’s generation at least, might have had to deal with. The nature and extent of the pressing political and legal issues tha
Arnot Manderson Advocates has obtained 24 individual rankings including 8 in Band 1 across fourteen wide ranging practice areas in the recently announced Chambers and Partners listings. As well as the haul of individual rankings Arnot Manderson has achieved stable wide recognition in Private Client,
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Egypt official tells Europe to take in 1m Gazans if ‘you care about human rights so much’
A full bench of the High Court of Justiciary has confirmed that a witness testifying to the de recenti distress of a complainer is capable of corroborating direct evidence from a complainer that she has been raped. The reference arose from a case in which the respondent was charged with the assault
A review into the delayed Ferguson Marine ferries by a senior lawyer has found no evidence of fraud. The review follows a BBC Disclosure show that alleged the process for awarding the contract may have been a sham.
The Scottish property market is due to follow the same trajectory as England and Wales, experiencing a slowdown as housing supply remains steady but consumer ability to buy continues to be restricted, according to Landmark Information Group’s latest property trends report.
Refugee legal reforms will have a disproportionate impact on sexually diverse claimants, academics have warned. Researchers have said the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 is a missed opportunity to resolve other issues about how to make clear assessments about people’s sexual backgrounds and t
Andrew Malkinson, the man who served 17 years for a crime he did not commit, has revealed that he is penniless and living in a tent. The 57-year-old’s conviction for raping a young mother in July 2003 was quashed by the Court of Appeal last month, after DNA analysis associated the crime with s
A Glasgow man who was jailed for 40 months after pleading guilty to assaulting his partner’s brother and causing considerable damage to vehicles with his van afterwards has had his cumulative sentence reduced by eight months on appeal to the High Court of Justiciary. Counsel for Alan James arg
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal challenging a decision which found that police officers and staff in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) were historically underpaid holiday pay since 1998, up to a total value of £30 million. Delivering the judgment, Lord Kitchin and Lady Ros
