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Rough sleeping no longer a crime in England
The Vagrancy Act was law written in the tone of a man irritated that poverty had chosen to be visible. On 29 June, the government repeals the remaining 1824 provisions which criminalised rough sleeping and begging. That ends a 202-year…
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Crown Court backlog Jury Trials
The Crown Court backlog has fallen by 37 cases, which is the justice-system equivalent of tidying one teaspoon in a burning kitchen. Fresh court figures show a tiny fall in the Crown Court open caseload while the row over restricting…
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Mazur: SRA Guidance At Last
The SRA has rewritten its supervision guidance after the Court of Appeal restored the orthodox view: unauthorised staff can carry out litigation work, provided it is properly supervised. The revised material accepts that paralegals, trainees and other non-authorised staff may…
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Under-16 Social Media Ban Shifts Focus from Safety to Total Exclusion
The government has decided that nudging users with better settings is no longer doing the job. Ministers plan to ban social media platforms from offering services to under‑16s, with draft regulations expected before Christmas and the regime intended to take…
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US Pulls Anthropic AI Models in Bold Regulatory Crackdown
The AI safety debate has moved from policy panels to product shutdowns. Anthropic says it has been ordered by the US government to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for any foreign national, whether inside or…
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Fake Solicitor Emails Use Law Firm Credibility to Weaponize Scams
Scammers do not need legal qualifications if they can borrow a solicitor’s name. The SRA issued a series of scam alerts in early June, including warnings about emails misusing the identities of genuine solicitors and law firms. In one instance,…
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US Law Firms Hit Record Scale as London Becomes a Global Capital Race
London’s legal market shows little sign of retreating into post‑Brexit modesty. If anything, the competition at the top end is becoming more crowded. Recent figures reported by Legal Business put lawyer headcount at the 50 largest international firms in London…
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SRA’s AI Growth Lab move puts Legal Tech inside the Regulatory Tent
The SRA appears to have concluded that legal AI is best examined in the open, rather than reconstructed later from the remains of a complaint. The regulator has joined the Advisory AI Growth Lab, a government-backed initiative intended to help…
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