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07 Oct 2020 Home affairs

Search warrants reform to help law enforcement investigate crime

Reforms that would reduce the number of unlawful search warrants being issued and help law enforcement to investigate crime and collect evidence (especially that stored electronically) have today [7 October 2020] been recommended by the Law Commission, the Government’s independent law reform body.

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06 Oct 2020 Home affairs

Bar Council: Prime Minister's comments are "shocking and troubling"

Responding to comments made about lawyers by the Prime Minister today in his speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Chair of the Bar Council, Amanda Pinto QC, said:

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23 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Women should be protected under hate crime laws, proposes Law Commission

Sex or gender should be made a protected characteristic in hate crime laws, the Law Commission has proposed today.

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21 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Adapting English law for the digital revolution

The Law Commission has begun work on two new projects to ensure that English law can accommodate two emerging technologies that could revolutionise commerce: smart contracts and digital assets.

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18 Sep 2020 Home affairs

RCGP members issue legal challenge to Council’s ‘unrepresentative’ and ‘irrational’ decision on assisted dying

Doctors challenge RCGP Council’s decision to remain opposed to assisted dying despite majority support for a change in stance and huge shift in members’ views.

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17 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Reforms to confiscation regime to recover £8 million more per year

Proposals to reform the confiscation regime could help recover an extra £8 million per year from convicted criminals, by more accurately and efficiently determining a defendant’s criminal proceeds and more effectively enforcing confiscation orders.

Covid-19 is creating new challenges for social mobility at the Bar

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15 Sep 2020 Coronavirus

Covid-19 is creating new challenges for social mobility at the Bar

This week, the Bar Council launch a new group of #IAmTheBar advocates and a Leadership Programme, to bring together work across the profession to shape the Bar of the future.

14 Sep 2020 Brexit

The UK risks losing all moral authority on law-breaking if the Internal Markets Bill goes ahead

The UK Internal Market Bill strikes at the future constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom as a unitary state. There is still time for us to reject this murky path the government have decided on.

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11 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Greater protections for victims of online abuse proposed by Law Commission

The Law Commission has today published proposals to better protect victims from harmful online behaviour including abusive messages or emails, cyberflashing, and pile-on harassment. Reforms to tackle the malicious sharing of information known to be false have also been proposed.

10 Sep 2020 Brexit

The Conservative Party is about the rule of law or it is nothing

The Government's admission on Tuesday that they would be willing to break international law is deeply concerning. Where problems have arisen in the Withdrawal Agreement, we need to find alternative solutions through negotiation, not unlawfulness.

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08 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Bar Council responds to government criminal court recovery plan

Responding to HMCTS’ COVID-19: Update on the HMCTS response for criminal courts in England & Wales September 2020 published today, Chair of the Bar Council, Amanda Pinto QC, said:

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03 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Give couples more freedom to choose where they marry, Law Commission proposes

As the experience of couples wanting to get married during the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, the laws governing how and where couples can marry are outdated and unnecessarily restrictive.

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02 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Reforms to UK’s antiquated spying laws published by Law Commission

Reform is needed to bring the law into the 21st century and protect the United Kingdom from espionage (spying) and unauthorised disclosures (leaks), according to a report from the Law Commission that has been laid in Parliament this week.

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12 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Immigration appeal fees U-turn a “common-sense” decision

Responding to the Ministry of Justice’s decision to scrap its plans for new fixed fees arrangements in immigration and asylum appeals.

03 Aug 2020 Coronavirus

Coronavirus: MPs warn of access-to-justice crisis as two-thirds of solicitors face going bust by autumn

MPs have warned that the effects of the coronavirus pandemic could leave many with “no access to real justice” as up to 5,000 legal firms face going bust.

31 Jul 2020 Home affairs

An Office of the Whistleblower is needed to ensure people who speak up are protected

Whilst there are laws in place to protect whistleblowers, the overwhelming evidence is that they have failed to address the principal issues they face.

New survey reveals justice system hanging by a thread with ‘diversity drain’ and loss of talent imminent

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29 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

New survey reveals justice system hanging by a thread with ‘diversity drain’ and loss of talent imminent

The Bar Council’s latest survey of the barristers’ profession has revealed the profound impact of Covid-19 on justice.

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14 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Health Secretary heeds Compassion in Dying’s calls for first ever national DNAR guidance for patients

New national guidance for patients on Do Not Attempt Resuscitation orders, plus information for NHS staff, to be published after Kate Masters and Compassion in Dying raise grave concerns over poor and unlawful practice during pandemic

08 Jun 2020 Health

Henry VIII powers in the Medicines and Medical Devices Bill must be limited

I have put down an Opposition amendment which will be discussed today, which would limit the powers to two years before requiring Parliamentary approval to extend them.

29 May 2020 Coronavirus

Compassion in Dying backs DNACPR legal challenge to Health Secretary

End-of-life charity has received hundreds of calls relating to CPR and DNACPR

20 May 2020 Transport

Responses to consultation show future for self-driving passenger vehicles

The Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission (the Law Commissions) have today [20 May 2020] published their analysis of responses to their second consultation paper on automated vehicles.

Warning to Chancellor of the Exchequer: Don’t turn your back on law and order

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12 May 2020 Coronavirus

Warning to Chancellor of the Exchequer: Don’t turn your back on law and order

The Bar Council is urging the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, to ensure the criminal justice system doesn’t collapse post-Covid-19 lockdown, by taking urgent measures to protect social order in the country.

05 May 2020 Coronavirus

Bar Council steps up to help 'essential worker' self-employed barristers get tested for Covid-19

The Bar Council, the representative body for all barristers in England and Wales, will help self-employed barristers showing Covid-19 symptoms to get tested under the Department of Health & Social Care employer referral testing scheme.

29 Apr 2020 Home affairs

Law Commission recommends increased powers for employment tribunals

Recommendations to improve how employment law disputes are decided have been published today [29 April 2020] by the Law Commission.