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Gillian Douglas🦋
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Retired Professor of Family Law. Arsenal supporter. Beagle owner.
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Excellent piece!
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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It sets out a blueprint for improving decision-making in Magistrates’ Courts to:

📉 Reverse this over-use of pre-trial detention

🫱🏻‍🫲🏾 Increase the diversity of the magistracy, &

⚖️ Improve fairness overall.

Read more: bit.ly/4nscTjX (3/3)
Justice unveils blueprint to cut remand population
Legal thinktank says too many people are being unnecessarily jailed before their trial.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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JUSTICE previously found evidence showing people are being imprisoned awaiting trial without proper legal reasons given for holding them.

Our new report outlines urgent reforms to address these problems. (2/3)
October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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(3/3) If you feel that you've lost track of Collardeau-Fuchs and want to refresh your memory, then we have a dedicated collection page financialremediesjournal.com/collardeau-f...
Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs Collection
A collection of all of our summaries, blogs, and articles about this case.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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How interesting that "... depression. I’m no good. What’s more, I’ll never be any good" is sixth in his stages of rejection - it was always first for me!
October 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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I think I'd want to see a lot more detail on how dropout rates are compiled in order to understand the comparative benefits/attractions of uni vs. apprenticeship. What demographic and economic factors are included, what about gender, etc. etc. Is such information available?
October 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Meet the new normal, same as the old one Around the same time, I attended a school friend’s confirmation. My first reflection was relief — the service lasted scarcely 45 minutes, far shorter than the two-hour-plus marathon of synagogue. Maybe these Catholics were onto something. The second was the conspicuous absence of guards outside of the church. Who was keeping the congregation safe, I wondered? It did not occur to me at that age that people could pray without security. But that is normal for Jews in Britain. I don’t attend synagogue anymore — not even for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. But I did walk past one last week on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. And what happened disturbed me. It wasn’t the uniformed police or temporary concrete crash barriers. That’s just an extension of the high fences and security guards that have been permanently stationed outside our places of worship for years now. It was my reaction. “Yeah, that’s probably sensible” I thought to myself. Bleak. And despite yesterday’s appalling events in Manchester, in which two Jewish men died and several others remain in hospital, not even especially prescient. I don’t think anyone who has been paying attention over the last two years can be shocked by the horrific violence. To be honest, many Jews are surprised it hadn’t happened already, and no doubt but for the tireless work of the security services, it would have.
October 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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So true

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September 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM