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An independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation based in Ramallah has failed in its attempt to challenge the lawfulness of a UK government decision permitting the export of F-35 fighter jet components to Israel. rozenberg.substack.com/p/f-35-chall...

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BBC staff were given new guidelines on broadcasting hate speech last week, The Times reports today. The updated guidelines state: “Material that contains hate speech should not be included in output unless it is justified by the context.” rozenberg.substack.com/p/racial-hat...

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Article 8 of the human rights convention does not prevent the United Kingdom from expelling foreign criminals, a former president of the European Court of Human Rights said at the weekend. Robert Spano was responding to a call from a Times columnist. rozenberg.substack.com/p/rights-and...

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Critics who imagine that we can secure our borders against migrants simply by leaving the European convention on human rights have overlooked another major international agreement that the UK signed at around the same time. rozenberg.substack.com/p/revisiting...

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Lord Justice Birss has been appointed to succeed Sir Julian Flaux as chancellor of the High Court of England and Wales from 1 November. Six High Court judges are being promoted to the Court of Appeal. rozenberg.substack.com/p/new-top-ju...

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The Court of Appeal has upheld a 15-month prison sentence on a man who fell out with his neighbours. Mark Coates, from Robertsbridge, near Hastings, was sentenced to 64 weeks for contempt of court last September following a boundary dispute. rozenberg.substack.com/p/semi-detac...

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The chair of the Bar Standards Board has launched a bitter attack on the Legal Services Board, the profession’s oversight regulator. rozenberg.substack.com/p/top-regula...

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The independent judicial inquiry into allegations of extra-judicial killings by British special forces in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013 is expected to hear oral evidence about an occasion “when an individual was shot in the head whilst they slept”. rozenberg.substack.com/p/witness-to...

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Congratulations to Hugh Mercer KC, who has been elected by an overwhelming, almost Soviet-style, majority. He received 151 votes and the other two candidates received 14 votes between them.

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All IPP prisoners should be “released within a two-year window”, a working group led by a former lord chief justice has recommended in a report published yesterday by the Howard League for Penal Reform. rozenberg.substack.com/p/call-to-fr...

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Things are not always as they seem. First impressions — newspaper headlines, for example — can be misleading. On my Substack today, I offee three examples. rozenberg.substack.com/p/first-impr...

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Two weeks ago, judges were talking about the risks of artificial intelligence. Today, members of the judiciary offer a rare insight into the opportunities AI may bring. rozenberg.substack.com/p/ai-risks-a...

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In recent weeks we’ve seen cyber attacks on the Legal Aid Agency and Marks & Spencer. How should organisations defend their data? Should they pay ransom demands in the hope of getting it back? And what is the government planning to do about all this? Listen now rozenberg.substack.com/p/cyber-atta...

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Hugh is a most excellent choice for the post. And it will be most relevant to have an experienced litigator on the ECtHR bench, as well as a dual qualified UK-Belgian barrister.

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The justice secretary’s call yesterday for reform of the European Convention on Human Rights will come as no surprise my subscribers. The convention "has endured because it has evolved," Shabana Mahmood said. "Now, it must do so again.” rozenberg.substack.com/p/echr-must-...

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The Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights has recommended Hugh Mercer KC as the most qualified candidate for election by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as the next UK judge. essexcourt.com/barrister/hu...

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The Law Commission has welcomed the publication of a scoping paper that calls on it to review extradition, mutual legal assistance and extraterritorial jurisdiction. The paper finds current legal frameworks to be fragmented, inconsistent and unfit for purpose. rozenberg.substack.com/p/reforming-...

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Why have a group of patchwork quilts been installed at the Royal Courts of Justice in London? And why might they have been welcome during the late nineteenth century? rozenberg.substack.com/p/quilting-n...

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The United Kingdom’s most senior judge has rejected claims that judges “interfere unwarrantably in the democratic process” and that their decisions are based on applying “values which are not shared by parliament or the general public”. rozenberg.substack.com/p/trust-in-t...

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A “prolific litigant” who issued more than 40 claims against employers over an 8-year period has been issued with a civil restraint order by Judge Emma Kelly preventing him from bringing new employment tribunal claims and appeals arising from job applications. rozenberg.substack.com/p/prolific-l...

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What impact has English common law had on the legal system of Israel? That’s the question you can hear Lord Pannick KC discussing with Dorit Beinisch, president of the Supreme Court of Israel from 2006 to 2012. rozenberg.substack.com/p/a-common-h...

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International laws should not be seen as a threat to our national interest, Baroness Prentis of Banbury KC argued this week. Because of UK historical leadership, Ukrainian judges were willing to accept training from British lawyers — including the former AG. rozenberg.substack.com/p/web-of-acc...

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Supporters of courtroom transparency are intrigued by something Mr Justice Nicklin said during a recent lecture. There could be “issues” with people gaining timely access to remote hearings. So the courts service was “working to provide open justice champions”. rozenberg.substack.com/p/open-justi...

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Lord Justice William Davis, chair of the Sentencing Council, died suddenly at his home in Warwickshire on Saturday. He was 70. A "great judge and a good man", Bill Davis brushed off the stresses and strains that would have kept others awake at night. rozenberg.substack.com/p/sir-willia...

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“We are at the precipice of system-wide change,” the lady chief justice of England and Wales said at the weekend. But Lady Carr remained “stubbornly optimistic about the future of the justice system, subject to funding and provided that we all work together”. rozenberg.substack.com/p/law-at-the...

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Barristers' leader who founded a renowned advocacy training course and whose strong constitution meant he could continue working for more than a decade after a diagnosis of motor neurone disease. rozenberg.substack.com/p/tim-dutton...

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Senior lawyers and legal regulators must now take “practical and effective measures” to ensure that all providers of legal services who use AI understand their professional obligations and duties to the courts, two judges ruled in the High Court this morning. rozenberg.substack.com/p/ai-the-jud...

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Dame Vera Baird KC starts work on Monday and clearly expects the CCRC’s chief executive, Karen Kneller, to be waiting for her, assuming Kneller can remember her way to a building that she's used to visiting “maybe one or two days every couple of months or so”. rozenberg.substack.com/p/baird-teeth

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The Parole Board should increase the number of public hearings it holds each year, an internal review has recommended. It’s one of the ways that the board hopes to achieve greater public understanding of its work. Its judicial vice-chair discusses the findings rozenberg.substack.com/p/unlocking-...

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It would be “constitutionally improper” for ministers to comply with treaty obligations if that would mean ignoring laws made by parliament, the shadow attorney general said yesterday. Lord Wolfson of Tredegar KC was responding to allegations by Lord Hermer KC rozenberg.substack.com/p/lord-wolfs...

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International law has helped give the UK peace, security and prosperity, the attorney general said yesterday. Lord Hermer KC described as the government’s policy as one of progressive realism, distinguishing it from both romantic idealism and pseudo-realism. rozenberg.substack.com/p/pick-and-m...

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Barristers' leaders have welcomed their regulator's decision not to go ahead with controversial plans to replace the duty of barristers not to discriminate with a duty to advance or promote equality, diversity and inclusion. rozenberg.substack.com/p/regulator-...

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Lawyers for the families of 29 military and civilian intelligence specialists who were killed when an RAF Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 have said they will “consider all legal options” to find out how their relatives died. rozenberg.substack.com/p/chinook-fa...

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Bar Standards Board scraps controversial proposed duty on barristers to “act in a way that advances equality, diversity and inclusion”. Background and link to today's announcement: rozenberg.substack.com/p/regulator-...

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A High Court hearing last Friday failed to shed much light on how fake cases came to be cited by lawyers in two recent hearings. As I explained a week ago, it’s widely assumed that these non-existent “authorities” were generated by artificial intelligence (AI) rozenberg.substack.com/p/ai-still-a...

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The 46-nation Council of Europe has rebuffed an attempt by the leaders of nine member states who believe the European Court of Human Rights has made it too difficult for them to deal with what they describe as irregular migration. rozenberg.substack.com/p/echr-unbal...

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It is no longer tenable for Karen Kneller to remain chief executive of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), an all-party committee of MPs says in a report published this morning. rozenberg.substack.com/p/ccrc-chief...

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A three-stage model will be proposed today to bring the prison population under control. David Gauke, the former Conservative justice secretary, is advising his successor Shabana Mahmood to implement an “earned progression” structure. rozenberg.substack.com/p/be-brave-s...

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Millions of consumers will each be able to claim compensation of between £45 and £70 after the Competition Appeal Tribunal gave its approval yesterday to the settlement of long-running litigation against Mastercard. rozenberg.substack.com/p/merricks-w...

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New powers will be created to counter threats from states such as Iran, the home secretary told MPs yesterday. Yvette Cooper had commissioned a report from Jonathan Hall KC which said the Terrorism Act 2000 had never been intended to apply to state entities. rozenberg.substack.com/p/countering...

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Lawyers accused of citing cases that do not exist in two recent High Court actions have been warned that judges may initiate contempt of court proceedings against them. If found in contempt, they could be punished with imprisonment. rozenberg.substack.com/p/the-perils...

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"Our recommendations will modernise wills law to promote testamentary freedom, bringing with them greater certainty, clarity and fairness," says the Law Commission. But what's wrong with a statute passed in 1837? rozenberg.substack.com/p/modernisin...

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Nobody was surprised that President Putin failed to show up in Istanbul yesterday for peace talks with President Zelensky — except, perhaps, President Trump. Politicians from other countries — including the foreign secretary David Lammy — rely instead on law. rozenberg.substack.com/p/not-just-a...

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As the justice secretary was preparing to announce early release for recalled prisoners, her courts minister Sarah Sackman was telling me about plans to curtail jury trial. But will people be persuaded when some imagine that it was guaranteed by Magna Carta? rozenberg.substack.com/p/curtailing...

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“The independent judiciary is an integral part of what the UK has to offer to the world,” the lady chief justice said last night. I asked Lord Justice Snowden, the new lead international relations judge, about the judiciary’s international engagement strategy. rozenberg.substack.com/p/judicial-d...

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Islamic State fighters who made their way back to the UK should face prosecution, a parliamentary committee recommends in a report published this morning. rozenberg.substack.com/p/closing-th...

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The ICC prosecutor was questioned by UN investigators late last week about allegations of rape, a US newspaper reported yesterday. Lawyers for Karim Khan KC said it was “categorically untrue that he has engaged in sexual misconduct of any kind”, the WSJ added. rozenberg.substack.com/p/icc-prosec...

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There will be just one man among the government’s five independent law reform advisers by September. Until 2023, supporters of diversity complained ruefully that there were more members of the Law Commission called “Nick” — three out of five — than women. rozenberg.substack.com/p/new-law-co...

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