If implemented, the proposals would upend the status quo – significantly limiting employers’ ability to stop departing employees from joining or setting up a competitor, and potentially capping the notice periods employers can require.
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Discrimination in prison medication dispensing – objective justification and an unjustified failure to think about it
The UK Human Rights Blog is moving to Substack.
From 19th October, all new articles will be published exclusively on our Substack, and no new content will appear on our current website.
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FCA blog on how strong compliance functions can support trusted corporate finance markets
On 8 October 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a blog on how strong compliance functions can support trusted corporate finance markets, this follows on from a survey the FCA had conducted, which it considers found encouraging practice across
Property Rights Pilgrimage, Runnymede Edition
We’re in England for the upcoming Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, and instead of heading directly to London from Heathrow, thought it would be a good time to take a short diversion to nearby Runnymede for what must be the O.G.
Agentic AI and the future of justice: who will exercise judgement?
The legal profession has spent the last two years grappling with generative AI. The next challenge could be far more significant.
On 5 October 2026, The Law Society published The Future of Agentic AI in the Justice System, examining how
“There really is an art to appointments”: Kevin Nash and Maria Jonker on constituting an Arbitral Tribunal at CADRA International Arbitration Summer School 2026
The Central Asia Dispute Resolution Association (CADRA) International Arbitration Summer School 2026 continued with another session, “Constitution of the Arbitral Tribunal: Appointment, Independence, Impartiality, and Challenges”, held on 18 August 2026. The session featured Kevin Nash, Director General, London Court
Joanna Bell & Hayley J Hooper: Not in my (Constitutional) Backyard: How Not to Speed Up Planning Challenges
Important issues of UK constitutional law can arise in the most unusual of places. Some of the most important cases on undergraduate reading lists, for example, concerned disputes about fishing licences and whether goods could be measured in imperial, rather
Administrative Court tightens approach to urgent judicial review applications
From 19 October 2026, the Administrative Court will determine whether a judicial review application requires urgent consideration by examining Form N463 by itself. Practitioners will not be able to use any of the information provided elsewhere in the documents to
Five bankers’ rate-rigging wrongful convictions overturned by Court of Appeal
Five city traders have had their convictions overturned in the Court of Appeal after serving jail sentences for rigging interest rates while working at Barclays bank.Philippe Moryoussef, Jay Merchant, Colin Bermingham, Jonathan Mathew, and Alex Pabon were convicted following prosecutions
No Way Out: The Service Out Gap for Freezing Orders Supporting English Judgments
In Gilbert & Anor v Broadoak Private Finance Ltd [2026] EWCA Civ 1172, the Court of Appeal confirmed that none of the three gateways the claimants relied upon permitted service out for a free-standing freezing order application brought to assist