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Covid-19 accelerates changes to Domestic Abuse toolkit for employers

The CPS will receive £49 million to support victims of crime and transform the services they provide to the public. Funding will mean additional staff in CPS’s specialist Rape and Serious Sexual Offence units and

A High Court hearing has been told that dozens of divorce applications submitted a day before the law allows were wrongly approved due to a computer error. A hearing was told that 79 divorces were

MyHMCTS users told to use Manage Cases interface log in

Online grooming crimes have reached record levels across the UK, with offences topping 7,000 for the first time, new data NSPCC compiled reveals. The figures, provided by 45 UK police forces, show 7,062 Sexual Communication

Youth Justice Board (YJB) member Louise Shorter met with Professor Neal Hazel to discuss Child First and how it supports safer communities. Louise is a YJB Board member, charity founder and journalist specialising in criminal

Government unveils plans to expand legal aid eligibility

The Law Society of England and Wales has welcomed more investment in justice but warned that increased funding across the system is needed to avoid collapse. While the Budget announced funding for prisons, the Crown

South-west and London law firm Wilsons Solicitors has launched its new service which gives separating couples an opportunity to divorce amicably with just one lawyer. The new service is designed for couples who want to

financial settlement on divorce

March is the most popular month for divorce, shows new research from TWM Solicitors with 10,170 divorces filed in March last year alone – dispelling the myth that January is the most popular month for

Employees can expect their employers to take reasonable steps to protect them from sexual harassment as a new duty comes into force. Employers now have a duty to anticipate when sexual harassment may occur and

Law firm Ward Hadaway has welcomed 14 new trainee solicitors and one solicitor apprentice. The appointments form an ongoing part of the firm’s ambitious growth strategy, spearheaded by new managing partner Steven Petrie, who stepped

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The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has published findings from its corporate strategy benchmarking research, which examines key audiences’ perception of its performance, despite continued warnings from the Law Society of England and Wales to focus

A 47-year-old man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for creating and distributing sexually explicit deepfake images using the faces of real women and children, as reported by The BBC. Karl

The Legal Services Board (LSB) announces the appointment of barrister Elaine Banton as a non-lay member of the Office for Legal Complaints (OLC). The LSB oversees the OLC, the board of the Legal Ombudsman, making

Family law marked as ‘stable’ area of litigation

Armalytix has announced its strategic expansion into family law. By offering tailored financial tools and intelligence, Armalytix aims to “alleviate common challenges and make the financial discovery process faster and more effective for family lawyers”.

The UK government has released 1,100 additional prisoners early as part of its ongoing emergency plan to address severe overcrowding in jails across England and Wales. Under the scheme, offenders serving sentences longer than five

The UK government is set to review the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission’s report on surrogacy reform, titled “Building Families Through Surrogacy: A New Law,” which was published on

For the first time, the government has pledged to eradicate the backlog of decisions on modern slavery cases within 2 years, giving thousands of women, men and children who may have suffered traumatic sexual, physical

Gingerbread are asking for some key changes to improve the lives of the UK’s 2 million single-parent households, many of whom are struggling financially, in the new government’s first Budget on the 30th October. The

Family Rights Group is calling on the Government to transform the lives of children who cannot live at home with their parents, by putting kinship care provisions in the Children’s Wellbeing Bill, and into new

rule of law

In a new pilot launched earlier this month, jurors in 14 Crown Courts across the country will be able to self-refer themselves for six free counselling sessions with specially trained counsellors, as well as access

With the second tranche of releases set to commence on Tuesday 22nd October, Refuge still has “serious concerns” that the SDS40 early release scheme is putting domestic abuse survivors’ safety in jeopardy. Responding to the

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