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Children aged 11 and under will no longer head footballs in training: England, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Following on from the news a few weeks ago that the Scottish Football Association (SFA) was to ban u12s heading the ball, new guidelines issued by the English FA, Scottish...
Ill thought out, unlawful and unlikely to work – The Government’s Emergency Counter-Terrorism Legislation
Today (11 February 2020), the Government puts forward its emergency counter terrorism legislation. This legislation has been fast tracked in light of the London Bridge and Streatham terrorist attacks, where...
Reducing harm to newborn babies? Progress report on the first year of the Early Notification Scheme
The campaign group for improvements in patient safety Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) held a meeting in London on 15 January 2020 to explore NHS Resolution’s Early Notification Scheme (ENS)…
R (Hemmati & Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] UKSC 56 – potentially thousands unlawfully detained
In a damning indictment of the UK’s immigration detention policy, the Supreme Court has confirmed that the detention of asylum seekers pending transfer to other EU states under the “Dublin...
Court grants permission for a legal challenge to coroner’s refusal to hold a full inquest into murdered woman failed by Sussex Police
Susan Nicholson was murdered in 2011 by her partner Robert Trigg. Her family believe Sussex Police should have realised Susan’s life was in danger because of Trigg’s increasing violence towards...
