Government
Solicitor General Alex Chalk and ex-magic circle associate Bim Afolami MP become latest Tory lawyers to abandon Boris Johnson
Conservative vice-chair Afolami quit on live TV
Criminal barristers to strike as row over legal aid escalates
Walkouts from next Monday
Why law students shouldn’t be discouraged by anti-lawyer rhetoric
Top solicitors and barristers provide words of encouragement for aspiring lawyers
5 times the Johnson government complained about ‘lefty lawyers’
Lawyer-bashing long a staple of No.10 rhetoric
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Secrets and lies: The UK’s troubled regime of freedom of information
Second-year LSE law student Nhan Pham-Thanh explores the chequered history of freedom of information in the UK, currently stalled under Boris Johnson’s government
Justice minister quits over Boris Johnson’s ‘partygate’ fine
Commercial barrister Lord Wolfson slams ‘repeated rule-breaking, and breaches of the criminal law, in Downing Street’
Cabinet reshuffle: ex-magic circle rookie Raab appointed Justice Sec
Replaces barrister Robert Buckland
Genocide and torture to be cut from controversial new bill aimed at limiting prosecution of overseas soldiers
Johnny Mercer MP quits over government’s failure to include protections for troops who fought in Northern Ireland
Ministers don’t understand why they can’t just break the law, civil servants claim
Officials say certain politicians just don’t get that the rule of law is a thing
‘This has to stop’: Legal aid lawyers report receiving online threats after vilification by politicians and press
Legal aid firm Duncan Lewis says it’s getting ‘threatening messages’ after hostile coverage
‘#ChangeTheRecord’: Bar Council retort goes viral as government doubles down on ‘activist’ lawyer-bashing
Senior minister Priti Patel reignites row
Court of Appeal judges pause Heathrow expansion on climate change grounds
Government must now formally reconsider third runway, this time factoring in the Paris climate agreement
Linklaters pens report on Brexit, tells government the process could be ‘overwhelming’
Adopt a principles-based approach to mammoth task
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IT illiteracy and government: how legislators never understood computers
Andras Kirkman-Kovacs, runner-up in the BARBRI International Cyber Crime Blogging Prize Competition, says the government has its work cut out
Meet the London Met law student who took the Government Legal Service to court over her training contract rejection, and won
She’ll be applying again this summer
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Why are Brits so unsure of their right to challenge government in the courts?
We don’t know our public law in the same way Americans seem to
Court ‘underwhelmed’ by government’s defence as Jeremy Wright QC takes stand in Brexit legal challenge
High Court case concludes today
‘Are you sure I don’t look silly?’ Attorney General’s Twitter jitters over full-bottomed wig pic
Jeremy Wright QC deletes photo — then, after seemingly recovering composure, re-posts it
Ministry of Justice slaps penniless tramps with whopping court charges to bolster coffers
The desperate monetisation of Britain’s criminal justice system