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Parliamentary report on the Afghan data breach
On Thursday, the House of Commons Defence Select Committee (DSC) published a report which found that a serious data breach of the sensitive personal data of thousands of Afghans was
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Digital ID scrapped:
On Tuesday, the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, announced that the Government would scrap plans to bring in mandatory digital ID. The policy, announced under the Starmer administration, was intended to help tackle illegal
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JCHR to scrutinise Immigration and Asylum Bill
The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has this week launched its legislative scrutiny of the Immigration and Asylum Bill.
Described by the government as “a framework of new,
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On Tuesday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood introduced the Immigration and Asylum Bill to Parliament. The Bill reforms the interpretation of the right to family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), changes
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Conversion therapy ban
On Thursday, the Cabinet Office released a Draft Bill that would effectively ban LGBTQ+ ‘abusive conversion practices’ – colloquially known as ‘conversion therapy’ – in England and Wales. In 2022, the previous government also proposed
Novo Nordisk and others v BT and others [2026] EWHC 1553 (CH)
News just in: The UK’s drug regulator has approved a daily pill version of the obesity drug semaglutide (Wegovy) for weight loss.
The tablet form of Wegovy, manufactured
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The UK equality watchdog reports to the UN on race
On Thursday, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published the report it had submitted in May to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial
R (on the application of UCPI Designated Lawyer Officers Core Participant Group) v Sir John Mitting (sitting as Chairman of the Undercover Policing Inquiry and others [2026] EWHC 1394 (Admin)
This decision, arising from the long running Under Cover Policing
