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Gillian Douglas🦋
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Retired Professor of Family Law. Arsenal supporter. Beagle owner.
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Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
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British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers
An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Lawyer v AI [2025] PT (Fam) – Some thoughts for litigants in person on the risks of using AI in your Family Court case

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Lawyer v AI [2025] PT (Fam) – Some thoughts for litigants in person on the risks of using AI in your Family Court case
If I had a quid for every email that comes into my inbox about the use of AI in law, I’d be retiring. Horror stories about lawyers misusing AI, lying about using AI, dire warnings about hallucinati…
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November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Know someone looking to gain experience of cutting edge law reform work in a small, friendly team?

The deadline for these two paid internships is this Weds so please share them today with anyone who might be interested!
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JUSTICE is hiring!

We’re recruiting for two paid internships, offering hands-on experience working alongside our policy team on important law reform, research and drafting work.

📅 3 months (full-time or part-time)
📍 UK wide

Read more & apply: bit.ly/3JCjElq
Careers | JUSTICE | Legal Charity Jobs
Join our mission to reform the legal system. Explore current job openings and career opportunities at JUSTICE.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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The contemporary relevance of the social sciences is a joint publication with @sagepub.com and demonstrates how the social sciences are contributing to the wellbeing of the UK through 8 broad principles supported with evidence & case studies. Download the report➡️ acss.org.uk/publications...
The contemporary relevance of the social sciences – Academy of Social Sciences
November 2025
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November 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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New briefing & a guest blog by Alex Benn & Annie Fendrich on the Sentencing Bill, welcoming plans to cut unnecessary prison stays but raising concerns about how the changes will be resourced, among other things:

Briefing: justice.org.uk/briefings/se...

Blog: justice.org.uk/blogs/the-se...
Sentencing Bill Briefing | JUSTICE | UK Legal Reform Charity
JUSTICE briefs MPs on the Sentencing Bill, warning reforms risk failure without proper resources and safeguards for rights and equality.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Neat new report from @acadsocsciences.bsky.social on the value of social science to society
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New Academy report showcases the contemporary relevance of the UK’s social sciences – Academy of Social Sciences
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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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JUSTICE and 40+ other experts today urge the govt to remove the power to imprison people for their own protection while they await trial.

Prisons are not places of care, and this practice worsens issues such as homeless, addiction & mental health crises.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Lammy urged to end ‘scandal’ of people imprisoned for own protection
Exclusive: Removing courts’ power would help vulnerable adults and children and ‘free up jail spaces’, experts say, in wake of recent manhunts to find missing prisoners released by mistake
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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'Promises Unkept: Unpaid Child Maintenance and the Price of Inaction' by Lidia Beqiraj, Dere Street Barristers

https://financialremediesjournal.com/promises-unkept-unpaid-child-maintenance-and-the-price-of-inaction/
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Now available to read in the Proceedings of the British Academy, Consenting Children: Autonomy, Responsibility, Well-Being, brings together leading scholars to grapple with children’s consent in healthcare, education, work, and criminal justice.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4o7G8tR
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October 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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It sets out a blueprint for improving decision-making in Magistrates’ Courts to:

📉 Reverse this over-use of pre-trial detention

🫱🏻‍🫲🏾 Increase the diversity of the magistracy, &

⚖️ Improve fairness overall.

Read more: bit.ly/4nscTjX (3/3)
Justice unveils blueprint to cut remand population
Legal thinktank says too many people are being unnecessarily jailed before their trial.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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JUSTICE previously found evidence showing people are being imprisoned awaiting trial without proper legal reasons given for holding them.

Our new report outlines urgent reforms to address these problems. (2/3)
October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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justicehq.bsky.social
📢 New report: Over 1 in 10 prison places are taken by people awaiting trial – a record high.

Magistrates’ courts' decisions drive the overuse of pre-trial prison stays & under new plans they'll make even more life changing calls.

The quality of these decisions is key (1/3)
October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Cancelled due to "security concerns" again — this time football fans. The threat of violence is real. The solution surely cannot be to rid the public square of Jews.
How to cancel Jews (and get away with it)
A 21st century guide to the oldest hatred
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October 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Are you an established or senior researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships allow successful award-holders to concentrate on bringing a major piece of research to completion. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9
October 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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There are only three weeks left to apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. The scheme provides postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars with funding for research projects on any topic or issue across the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: https://bit.ly/3K4kEyA
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October 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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The next three episodes of Confessions of an Early Career Researcher are out!

From navigating the ECR landscape to building your academic community, tune in as fellow researchers share their academia survival tips.

All episodes are now available across podcasting platforms. https://bit.ly/47PXZQH
October 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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We've noticed some new followers so wanted to share some information about how we work at Nuffield Family Justice Observatory.

Read more here: www.nuffieldfjo.org.uk/about
October 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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(3/3) If you feel that you've lost track of Collardeau-Fuchs and want to refresh your memory, then we have a dedicated collection page financialremediesjournal.com/collardeau-f...
Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs Collection
A collection of all of our summaries, blogs, and articles about this case.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Finality and Funding: The Implications of a Clean Break following CC v UU by Henry Hood & Anna Roiser

The judgment of Peel J in CC v UU [2025] EWFC 214 provides a further glimpse of the LSPO regime....

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October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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My son recently found a swastika drawn on the pavement at the end of our street trib.al/iSmg6Uu
My son recently found a swastika drawn on the pavement at...
The Manchester attack didn't come as a shock. The only surprise is it hasn’t happened sooner
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October 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Meet the new normal, same as the old one Around the same time, I attended a school friend’s confirmation. My first reflection was relief — the service lasted scarcely 45 minutes, far shorter than the two-hour-plus marathon of synagogue. Maybe these Catholics were onto something. The second was the conspicuous absence of guards outside of the church. Who was keeping the congregation safe, I wondered? It did not occur to me at that age that people could pray without security. But that is normal for Jews in Britain. I don’t attend synagogue anymore — not even for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. But I did walk past one last week on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. And what happened disturbed me. It wasn’t the uniformed police or temporary concrete crash barriers. That’s just an extension of the high fences and security guards that have been permanently stationed outside our places of worship for years now. It was my reaction. “Yeah, that’s probably sensible” I thought to myself. Bleak. And despite yesterday’s appalling events in Manchester, in which two Jewish men died and several others remain in hospital, not even especially prescient. I don’t think anyone who has been paying attention over the last two years can be shocked by the horrific violence. To be honest, many Jews are surprised it hadn’t happened already, and no doubt but for the tireless work of the security services, it would have.
October 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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We’ve opened a call for our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships which enable established scholars to have the time to complete a significant piece of humanities or social sciences piece of research, through a one year period of leave
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British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships
The British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships are intended to enable established scholars, needing relief from teaching and administration, to have the time to bring to completion a signi...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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We invite applications for British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships 2025. The scheme supports established and senior researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to complete research through a sustained period of leave for one year. Apply now: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9
October 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. We've released a new 'warts and all' podcast, in collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk which might be of interest to anyone thinking of starting a career in research
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/confess...
Confessions of an Early Career Researcher: A new podcast by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust
A new podcast for early-career researchers has been launched by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM