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Female junior barristers earn nearly a quarter less than male colleagues - Legal Cheek www.legalcheek.com/2025/11/fema...
Female junior barristers earn nearly a quarter less than male colleagues - Legal Cheek
New report lays bare gender pay gap
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November 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Justice Secretary David Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape, murder, manslaughter or other cases passing a public interest test www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media and end of media freedom if the far-right ever came into power to silence critics www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
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November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Leading lawyers condemn ‘contrived’ #Bangladesh trial of former UK minister: High-profile lawyers suggest ex-City minister Tulip Siddiq has not enjoyed basic rights during her trial in absentia www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Leading lawyers condemn ‘contrived’ Bangladesh trial of former UK minister
Exclusive: High-profile lawyers suggest ex-City minister Tulip Siddiq has not enjoyed basic rights during her trial in absentia
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November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Bro boost: women say their LinkedIn traffic increases if they pretend to be men. Collective experiment found switching profile to ‘male’ and ‘bro-coding’ text led to big increase in reach, though site denies favouring posts by men www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Bro boost: women say their LinkedIn traffic increases if they pretend to be men
Collective experiment found switching profile to ‘male’ and ‘bro-coding’ text led to big increase in reach, though site denies favouring posts by men
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November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Officials are looking into whether a man who took part in a Remembrance Sunday ceremony dressed as a high-ranking navy officer was a fake. The man was involved in the wreath laying in Llandudno, Conwy county on Sunday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Suspected fake admiral at Llandudno Remembrance event investigated
Members of the Royal Naval Association in Llandudno spotted a man wearing an unusual uniform.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Based on the largest poll of fascists, latent racists and far-right reprobates yet, these charts and maps show five distinct groups that could hand Reform a majority and hark 1930's Nazi Germany within the UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party
Based on largest poll of supporters, these charts and maps show five distinct groups that could hand Reform a majority
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November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Trump is asking the #US Supreme Court to review the $5m (£3.6m) civil case that found he defamed and sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll: A New York jury awarded Ms Carroll damages over her civil claim that Trump sexually assaulted her www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn E Jean Carroll verdict
The top court is Trump's last hope of having a jury's unanimous verdict thrown out. Whether it will take the case is unclear.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Two care workers have been charged with the ill-treatment of four people at a mental health unit which featured in an undercove investigation. The Panorama broadcast revealed that patients were humiliated and bullied at the Edenfield Centre in Prestwich www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mental health unit care workers charged after BBC Panorama probe
Two care workers are charged with the ill-treatment of four people at a mental health unit in 2022.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
‘The fear is real’: how Midlands far-right racist attacks have changed Sikh women’s daily lives. Many women are afraid to go out, particularly on their own, after religiously aggravated rapes and assaults www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘The fear is real’: how Midlands attacks have changed Sikh women’s daily lives
Many women are afraid to go out, particularly on their own, after religiously aggravated rapes and assaults
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November 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A #US judge has ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), also known as food stamps, and accused the administration of withholding the food aid "for political reasons" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Snap food benefits - Trump must fully fund aid program by Friday
The federal judge ruled that Trump was choosing to withhold federal food aid due to
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November 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Four senior figures in the #Greek coastguard, including its current commander, are to face criminal prosecution for negligent manslaughter in connection with a 2023 migrant boat disaster in which up to 650 people are thought to have drowned www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greek coastguard chief to be prosecuted over deadly migrant shipwreck
Vice Adm Tryfon Kontizas is one of four senior coastguard figures to face manslaughter charges over the 2023 disaster.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A record number of referrals were made to the government's controversial anti-terror programme Prevent in the year to March 2025, up 27%. The majority of concerns specified were made for individuals who had "no identified ideology" at 56% www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Record referrals to Prevent anti-terror programme
The number of referrals to the scheme increased 27% in the year to March 2025, according to new data.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM