Railway strikes in the UK have halted services throughout July and Augst 2022.
Sony, owners and creators of the gaming sensation PlayStation, have been hit with a lawsuit with a possible £5 billion pay out.
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The UK government has once again extended its trade sanctions with Russia.
The UK underwent a record-breaking heatwave in July with another hitting the country in August.
The UK has blocked a Chinese company from purchasing intellectual property from the University of Manchester using its powers under the National Security and Investment Act.
From renewable energy to vegan trainers, our world is constantly evolving to become more environmentally friendly. As of recently, a group of campaigners in South Oxfordshire have decided to challenge the local council’s approval of a new home development project, by a judicial review. The £3.6million project is set to build 30,000 homes by at least 2035, situated near Oxford United’s Kassam Stadium.
Efforts to roll out vaccines to control the spread of COVID-19 have been dealt a major blow because of an emerging dispute between the EU and AstraZeneca. Amid shortages due to production problems, the pharmaceutical company has been accused of breaching its contract to supply the EU, whose member States lag far behind countries like Britain and the US in delivering vaccines to its people.
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Cambridge University has introduced a new foundation year scheme, designed to give disadvantaged young people a more realistic and obtainable avenue to the university. The scheme reduces the usual entry requirement of A*AA to BBB for students who had their education ‘disadvantaged or disrupted’ and are from lower-income households.
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The recent statement from the European Commission has thrown the UK rehabilitation system into the spotlight. Illuminated in a recent study on detainees’ experience of incarceration, interviews with inmates informed of an emerging culture of “learned deception”,[1] where participation in classes arises not out of a want for learning or for change, but simply out of an understanding that these present “a possibility of getting out quicker”.
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The European Commission for Human Rights has issued a statement. requiring the Member States to “take urgent steps to protect the rights and health of prisoners” in response to the current pandemic.Bringing to light the contentious issue of prisoners’ rights, the statement entrenches the importance of human dignity in the penal context. With the aim of protecting detainees from egregious wrongs and fostering realistic prospects of rehabilitation.
On the 15th of January 2021, the Supreme Court delivered its judgment on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA)’s business interruption insurance test case, bringing clarity regarding whether insurers must pay claims on certain policies.[1] This case was brought about on behalf of 370,000 policyholders (particularly SMEs) due to the widespread store closures resulting from the pandemic. Business insurance providers such as Hiscox have rejected to pay out under various business interruption insurance policies.[2]
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Despite the desperate need for inclusion and striving towards a gender equal society, many female athletes are still subjected to intense ‘sex testing’ prior to competing. This violation of an individual’s rights has led to the mental and physical decline of female athletes as well as economic hardship.
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In the largest group action personal data claim in UK history, it has been announced that British Airways could face claims amounting to more than £800 million. British Airways initially stated that their online reservation systems had been accessed by an unauthorized third party on 7th September 2018, compromising the data of more than 420,000 customers. According to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), British Airways was alerted to the breach by a third party and did not detect the breach themselves.
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'The UK could still sign a trade deal with a state committing genocide...This amendment puts that right'.1 The amendment comes at a crucial time in world politics with Europe recently signing a trade deal with China and a possible influx of refugees from Hong-Kong. The UK has an interesting position to take in this matter that could help to enforce justice on leaders of countries who have been committing human rights violations for years.
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On January 13th, 2021, the government released a White Paper in response Sir Simon Wessely’s proposed recommendations made in a 2018 report on reforming the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA). This will be followed by 12-weeks of public consultation, with a draft of a revised Mental Health Bill to be introduced when government time allows.
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It has been confirmed that on 21st January, Pregnant Then Screwed (PTS), an organisation that campaigns on issues that impact working mothers and offers support to those facing maternity-based discrimination, will be taking Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the High Court for discriminating against women in the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS).
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China, which was starting to be seen as a rising capitalist power and the land of opportunity by its people, is now uncompromisingly at war with this notion. With its ever-increasing trade sanctions and restrictions on mass media, it comes as a shock that China has agreed a trade deal with Europe.
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During 2020, the USA found itself in the middle of a tax war with France. This was in response to Macron placing a “3% levy on all revenue earnt from digital services used in France.” Branded as the dreaded ‘tech tax’, this naturally had a huge impact on tech giants such as Facebook Inc, Amazon Inc and, of course, Google.
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