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Can lessons be learned from the Manchester Arena bombing that could help prevent a similar tragedy in the future?

‘What personal information can, and should, the police disclose during high-profile investigations,’ such as Nicola Bulley’s disappearance in January? Jeremy Clarke-Williams, partner, and Sophie Taraniuk, paralegal, in the reputation management and privacy team at Penningtons Manches Cooper, address this question, in this week’s NLJ.

Is there any recourse for families at the centre of a media storm? Jeremy Clarke-Williams & Sophie Taraniuk assess whether the discourse surrounding the disappearance of Nicola Bulley crossed the line

Nicholas Dobson dissects the nuisance case that hit the headlines and shocked art aficionados, Fearn v Tate Gallery Trustees, in this week’s NLJ.

‘Suspicionless’ stop and search is one of many controversial provisions in the Public Order Bill. Public and media attention has also focused on its restrictions on protest. Writing in this week’s NLJ, Neil Parpworth, of Leicester De Montfort Law School, looks in more detail at clauses 10 and 11, which sought to extend the powers of stop and search.

Neil Parpworth reports on the scrutiny of the Public Order Bill—and its proposed new powers for stop & search—in the House of Lords

Rooms with a view: Nicholas Dobson charts the long journey from the High Court to the Supreme Court and back again for Fearn v Tate Gallery Trustees

n the Spring Budget 2023, on 15 March 2023, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, announced a ‘Brexit Pubs Guarantee,’ additional increases in defence spending, and a suite of local devolution deals providing funding for areas committed to a mayor or directly elected leader. The Chancellor also announced the development of a new Government Efficiency Framework and further funding for devolved administrations through the Barnett formula.

A bid by trade unions to challenge the Treasury’s decision to use a cost control mechanism contained in the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 (PSPA 2013) has failed in the High Court.

Criminal damage inflicted during public protest is an increasingly complex area, as David Walbank KC, of Red Lion Chambers, writes in this week’s Crime Brief.