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Walking a tightrope: policing and legislating public order

Emelia Bezant-Gahan analyses the UK's recent public order legislation, its implications for the right to protest and competing human rights issues

A&O managing partner resigns amid Shearman merger negotiations

Gareth Price has announced he is to leave Allen & Overy just months after the City firm announced its multibillion-dollar merger plans with New York rival, Shearman & Sterling

Lawyers say more should be done to reduce gender inequality

Research by the Next 100 Years project has found that less than half of women in the legal profession feel current measures to improve equality in the workplace are effective

Practice guidance on non-molestation injunctions issued

New guidance from the Family Division focuses on the issuance of non-molestation injunctions where an order is made without notice to the respondent

New law allows unlimited penalties for polluters

The government has scrapped the cap on civil penalties and significantly broadened their scope to target a much wider range of environmental offences

Human rights advocates condemn UK's Illegal Migration Bill

The bill will effectively extinguish the right to seek asylum in the UK, say lawyers who have examined the proposed legislation on behalf of human rights charity, Freedom from Torture

Government report reveals slow progress on judicial diversity

New statistics from the UK's Ministry of Justice show that progress for women and ethnic minority candidates has been disappointing

The employment relations (flexible working) bill

Stephen Morrall and Samuel Isaac explore how flexible working trends have developed since the pandemic