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The Weekly Round Up: Animal Rising Protestors Acquitted in the Supreme Court and the ICC’s First Libya Case Goes to Trial

Animal Rising Protestors Acquitted in the Supreme Court and the ICC’s First Libya Case Goes to Trial. 20 July 2026 by Harry ...
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Decapod Crustaceans under the Law

How was your last lobster bisque or thermidor? What is a crayfish anyway, a sentient animal with feelings to be regarded, or just a large marine woodlouse to be tossed into a pot of boiling water, ...
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The Weekly Round Up: Immigration and Asylum Bill, good character guidance and the rights of children of same-sex couples

On Tuesday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood introduced the Immigration and Asylum Bill to Parliament. The Bill reforms the interpretation of the right to family life under Article 8 of the European ...
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The Weekly Roundup – two important Bills and a new Strasbourg ruling on protest law

On Thursday, the Cabinet Office released a Draft Bill that would effectively ban LGBTQ+ ‘abusive conversion practices’ – colloquially known as ‘conversion therapy’ – in England and Wales. In 2022, the ...
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Fake GLP-1 jabs: no more advertising on the internet

News just in: The UK’s drug regulator has approved a daily pill version of the obesity drug semaglutide (Wegovy) for weight loss. The tablet form of Wegovy, manufactured by Novo Nordisk, is the first ...