ECtHR case of Osman Kavala has been relinquished to the Grand Chamber.
He has been jailed since 2017. Previously, ECtHR found breaches of Articles 5 (right to liberty), 4 (right to a speedy decision on the lawfulness of detention), and 18, ordering Turkey to release him. But he remains imprisoned.
He has been jailed since 2017. Previously, ECtHR found breaches of Articles 5 (right to liberty), 4 (right to a speedy decision on the lawfulness of detention), and 18, ordering Turkey to release him. But he remains imprisoned.
December 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
ECtHR case of Osman Kavala has been relinquished to the Grand Chamber.
He has been jailed since 2017. Previously, ECtHR found breaches of Articles 5 (right to liberty), 4 (right to a speedy decision on the lawfulness of detention), and 18, ordering Turkey to release him. But he remains imprisoned.
He has been jailed since 2017. Previously, ECtHR found breaches of Articles 5 (right to liberty), 4 (right to a speedy decision on the lawfulness of detention), and 18, ordering Turkey to release him. But he remains imprisoned.
Human rights firm @BindmansLLP has teamed up with survivor organisations Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre, Centre of Women’s Justice and Rape Crisis England & Wales in a ‘super-complaint’ over ‘excessively lengthy’ police investigations into alleged sexual offences.
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Bindmans lodges super-complaint over lengthy rape investigations
Law firm highlights 'potential systemic breach' of ECHR obligations.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Human rights firm @BindmansLLP has teamed up with survivor organisations Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre, Centre of Women’s Justice and Rape Crisis England & Wales in a ‘super-complaint’ over ‘excessively lengthy’ police investigations into alleged sexual offences.
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"[ECHR] enabled Europe to be largely conflict-free for past 80 years. They have also, with varying degrees, enabled development of international law. This has proved positive in evolution of liberal democracies. We dismantle this at our peril: Fiona Scolding KC.
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Human rights: Conventional wisdom
Aged 75, the ECHR faces calls for retirement, while at 25, the Human Rights Act is also under attack. Fiona Scolding KC finds their links to peace, stability, respect and autonomy to be intact. So what now?
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December 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"[ECHR] enabled Europe to be largely conflict-free for past 80 years. They have also, with varying degrees, enabled development of international law. This has proved positive in evolution of liberal democracies. We dismantle this at our peril: Fiona Scolding KC.
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Reform councillor’s company fined £40,000 for hiring illegal worker.
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Reform councillor’s company fined £40,000 for hiring illegal worker
The incident will once more lead to accusations that Reform is incompetent and cause embarrassment for Farage.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reform councillor’s company fined £40,000 for hiring illegal worker.
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Police are looking into allegations that Reform UK breached electoral law during its campaign to win Nigel Farage’s Commons seat at last year’s general election.
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Police assess claims Reform UK breached electoral law during Farage campaign
Party denies ex-councillor’s claim it falsely reported expenses during Farage’s run to become Clacton MP last year
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December 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Police are looking into allegations that Reform UK breached electoral law during its campaign to win Nigel Farage’s Commons seat at last year’s general election.
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The Post Office has avoided a fine after accidentally leaking the details of 502 members of the Bates group litigation.
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Post Office leak of victims' details 'not egregious', data watchdog finds
Information Commissioner's Office says people affected by the Post Office scandal were 'let down again'.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The Post Office has avoided a fine after accidentally leaking the details of 502 members of the Bates group litigation.
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Children as young as 12 among hundreds of under-18s included on police facial recognition watchlists, as govt prepares to announce a mass expansion of the technology. Children featured at least 1,600 times on live facial recognition used by 6 police forces.
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Police forces use facial recognition to track children as young as 12 - Liberty Investigates
Campaigners question the inclusion of hundreds of children on facial recognition watchlists police use in street surveillance operations
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December 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Children as young as 12 among hundreds of under-18s included on police facial recognition watchlists, as govt prepares to announce a mass expansion of the technology. Children featured at least 1,600 times on live facial recognition used by 6 police forces.
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Almost half of practising solicitors say they or their firm have received threats in the past year. A The Law Society survey has found that death threats, intimidation and even physical violence are regularly faced by members working on the frontline.
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Solicitors face death threats, intimidation and violence, Law Society survey finds
Almost half of practising solicitors say they or their firm have received threats in the past year.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Almost half of practising solicitors say they or their firm have received threats in the past year. A The Law Society survey has found that death threats, intimidation and even physical violence are regularly faced by members working on the frontline.
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Given that migrants are the root cause of all our problems and they take up all our resources so there's none left for British people, surely people in this country should see a marked rise in living standards very soon now?
"At 204,000, long-term net migration for the year ending June 2025 was around two-thirds lower than a year earlier, when it was 649,000. The fall is driven by fewer people arriving for work and study, and a continued, gradual increase in levels of emigration".
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Long-term international migration, provisional - Office for National Statistics
Estimates of UK long-term international migration, year ending June 2012 to year ending December 2024.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Given that migrants are the root cause of all our problems and they take up all our resources so there's none left for British people, surely people in this country should see a marked rise in living standards very soon now?
"At 204,000, long-term net migration for the year ending June 2025 was around two-thirds lower than a year earlier, when it was 649,000. The fall is driven by fewer people arriving for work and study, and a continued, gradual increase in levels of emigration".
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Long-term international migration, provisional - Office for National Statistics
Estimates of UK long-term international migration, year ending June 2012 to year ending December 2024.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"At 204,000, long-term net migration for the year ending June 2025 was around two-thirds lower than a year earlier, when it was 649,000. The fall is driven by fewer people arriving for work and study, and a continued, gradual increase in levels of emigration".
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"At 204,000, long-term net migration for the year ending June 2025 was around two-thirds lower than a year earlier, when it was 649,000. The fall is driven by fewer people arriving for work and study, and a continued, gradual increase in levels of emigration".
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Long-term international migration, provisional - Office for National Statistics
Estimates of UK long-term international migration, year ending June 2012 to year ending December 2024.
www.ons.gov.uk
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"At 204,000, long-term net migration for the year ending June 2025 was around two-thirds lower than a year earlier, when it was 649,000. The fall is driven by fewer people arriving for work and study, and a continued, gradual increase in levels of emigration".
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A non-legal tribunal member is not a ‘worker’ and therefore not entitled to holiday pay, an employment tribunal has found.
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Non-legal tribunal member not a 'worker', employment tribunal finds
Employment judge dismisses claim that lay member had not received holiday pay since 1998.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A non-legal tribunal member is not a ‘worker’ and therefore not entitled to holiday pay, an employment tribunal has found.
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"5,151 children crossed the Channel and claimed asylum in year to Sep 2025. Of the under 18s, 1,178 were girls and 3,973 were boys".
For all those who complain only single, young men travel to the UK to claim asylum. Don't worry, there are thousands of desperate children who risk their lives too.
For all those who complain only single, young men travel to the UK to claim asylum. Don't worry, there are thousands of desperate children who risk their lives too.
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"5,151 children crossed the Channel and claimed asylum in year to Sep 2025. Of the under 18s, 1,178 were girls and 3,973 were boys".
For all those who complain only single, young men travel to the UK to claim asylum. Don't worry, there are thousands of desperate children who risk their lives too.
For all those who complain only single, young men travel to the UK to claim asylum. Don't worry, there are thousands of desperate children who risk their lives too.
More than 2,000 children who have been trafficked or who arrived in the UK to claim asylum disappeared from social services’ care last year.
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More than 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
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November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
More than 2,000 children who have been trafficked or who arrived in the UK to claim asylum disappeared from social services’ care last year.
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A former head of the British Army has been suspended from the House of Lords for breaking lobbying rules.
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Ex-British Army chief suspended from House of Lords for breaking lobbying rules
Two peers have been rapped by the Lords sleaze watchdog after an undercover sting by reporters exposed breaches of Parliament's lobbying rules
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November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A former head of the British Army has been suspended from the House of Lords for breaking lobbying rules.
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Ministers’ criminal convictions can remain secret, the Government’s information watchdog has ruled.
The Information Commissioner’s Office has determined that the public does not have a right to know if ministers have criminal convictions.
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The Information Commissioner’s Office has determined that the public does not have a right to know if ministers have criminal convictions.
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Access Restricted
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November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Ministers’ criminal convictions can remain secret, the Government’s information watchdog has ruled.
The Information Commissioner’s Office has determined that the public does not have a right to know if ministers have criminal convictions.
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The Information Commissioner’s Office has determined that the public does not have a right to know if ministers have criminal convictions.
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"Criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury in order to increase the chances of proceedings collapsing, the courts minister has said, promising to enact radical changes to limit jury trials by the next election".
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MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
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November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"Criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury in order to increase the chances of proceedings collapsing, the courts minister has said, promising to enact radical changes to limit jury trials by the next election".
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One of the UK's most senior lawyers warns of dangers of celebrating or aligning with clients, saying it opens lawyers up to wider attacks. Dean of Scotland’s Faculty of Advocates said lawyers risk losing independence when they publicly champion a client’s cause.
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Bar leaders urge lawyers not to crow about client victories
Leading figures at International Bar Association conference stress caution about embracing clients publicly.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
One of the UK's most senior lawyers warns of dangers of celebrating or aligning with clients, saying it opens lawyers up to wider attacks. Dean of Scotland’s Faculty of Advocates said lawyers risk losing independence when they publicly champion a client’s cause.
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"We must not be complacent about strength of rule of law in UK. Without strong rule of law tradition, we risk mob rule & anarchy. There is a sense laws are being broken without consequence, including by public figures, diminishing public support for rule of law": House of Lords Constitution Commitee
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"We must not be complacent about strength of rule of law in UK. Without strong rule of law tradition, we risk mob rule & anarchy. There is a sense laws are being broken without consequence, including by public figures, diminishing public support for rule of law": House of Lords Constitution Commitee
UN expert expresses serious concern with Security Council’s Resolution 2803, saying it runs counter to Palestinian right to self-determination, consolidates Israel’s unlawful presence, including unlawful policies and practices, and risks legitimating ongoing violence.
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UN Security Council resolution a violation of Palestinian right of self-determination and UN Charter, UN expert warns
GENEVA – A UN expert today expressed serious concern with the Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2803, warning that it runs counter to the Palestinian right to self-determination, consolidates ...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
UN expert expresses serious concern with Security Council’s Resolution 2803, saying it runs counter to Palestinian right to self-determination, consolidates Israel’s unlawful presence, including unlawful policies and practices, and risks legitimating ongoing violence.
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An autistic man has been paid £125,000 in damages after he was trapped in his own home for over eight years. The Southwark resident lived in the home with the constant presence of at least two carers, with the front door locked for eight years.
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Autistic man trapped in his London home for eight years is paid £125,000 in damages
The Southwark resident was left ‘scared, isolated and traumatised on a daily basis’ according to his mother
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November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
An autistic man has been paid £125,000 in damages after he was trapped in his own home for over eight years. The Southwark resident lived in the home with the constant presence of at least two carers, with the front door locked for eight years.
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“I’d never experienced antisemitism growing up, so the first time that this vicious verbal abuse came out of Farage’s mouth was deeply shocking. But I wasn’t his only target. I’d hear him calling other students ‘Paki’ or ‘Wog’, and urging them to ‘go home’".
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‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
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November 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“I’d never experienced antisemitism growing up, so the first time that this vicious verbal abuse came out of Farage’s mouth was deeply shocking. But I wasn’t his only target. I’d hear him calling other students ‘Paki’ or ‘Wog’, and urging them to ‘go home’".
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"A police leader has claimed that the display of national flags on streets has become a "tool of division." She said it was part of a "disturbing" trend in rising hate-fuelled rhetoric and deliberate misinformation about immigration and asylum seekers".
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St George's flags on the nation's streets causing 'division' and 'fear' | LBC
A summit of police chiefs and crime commissioners heard the displays were part of a
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November 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"A police leader has claimed that the display of national flags on streets has become a "tool of division." She said it was part of a "disturbing" trend in rising hate-fuelled rhetoric and deliberate misinformation about immigration and asylum seekers".
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Labour: Things are so amazing for the people and government of Denmark, let's copy their policies.
Reality in Denmark:
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Reality in Denmark:
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November 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Labour: Things are so amazing for the people and government of Denmark, let's copy their policies.
Reality in Denmark:
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Reality in Denmark:
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Reform UK is under investigation by the Information Commissioner for potentially breaking data protection law, after being accused of lying to the watchdog.
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Nigel Farage's Reform UK Accused of Fabricating Evidence For Data Breach Investigation
EXCLUSIVE: Reform is accused of falsifying the evidence it provided to the Information Commissioner's Office, following allegations that it breached data rules
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November 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Reform UK is under investigation by the Information Commissioner for potentially breaking data protection law, after being accused of lying to the watchdog.
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