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Most people might expect a fake review of a new product, a restuarant or a hotel included among the many posts on company websites..

A forensic investigation by the charity Blind Justice UK of reviews on leading law firms websites reveals this practice exists on an industrial scale with any critical review of the firm ruthlessly removed from the public domain. T...


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05/07/2024. London, Pat McFadden, poses for a photograph following his appointment to Cabinet by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in 10 Downing Street. Picture by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street

With a million young people currently not in work, training or school the government’s plans for a huge increase in apprenticeship programmes is a key plank to get people back ...


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Barnie Choudhury Pic credit: University of East Anglia

The Judicial Appointments Commission, the body that appoints the top judges in England and Wales, is pursuing a journalist for an unprecedented bill to try and silence him after a six year investigation exposed huge shortcomings in the handling of applications for new judges, especially from ethnic minorities.

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MrJustice Chamberlain

Mr Justice Chamberlain has fixed October 14 for a one day hearing into complaints raised by Lorna McMahon, the aunt of Granada TV journalist Teresa McMahon, that part of the transcript into her death was missing when it was published by Mary Hassell. It covered the questioning of the journalist’s former partner. The coroner decided her death was suici...


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