The latest legal news and analysis on united kingdom laws.
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S.I. 2026/1090, made 15 October 2026, sets 16 November 2026 for section 242 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026: abortion pardons and criminal record deletion.
SI 2026/1065, made 1 October 2026, sets 30 October 2026 for the new Equality Act duty not to permit third parties to harass employees in Great Britain.
TikTok withdrew both appeals on 24 September 2026, making the ICO's £12.7m children's data penalty final and unblocking the open recommender systems probe.
SI 2026/1015 has been made, appointing 30 September 2026 for the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 sections that abolish the Information Commissioner and transfer its functions to the new Information Commission.
SI 2026/954 took UK employment tribunal time limits from three to six months on 1 October 2026. The three-month limit still governs earlier relevant dates.
England's High Court ordered indemnity costs against Prince Harry and six co-claimants who lost their Associated Newspapers case, plus a £9.5m interim payment.
The UK's ICO fined Elderly Aids Ltd £190,000 under PECR for 758,053 nuisance calls to TPS-registered numbers. What TPS actually protects, and how to complain.
Court of Appeal: a misleading Daily Mail headline was unfair UK GDPR data processing, even where a libel claim over the same article had failed.
The High Court dismissed all 97 privacy claims by Prince Harry, Elton John, Baroness Lawrence and four others against the Daily Mail publisher, finding they failed to prove unlawful information gathering.
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 reshapes UK GDPR, the DPA 2018 and PECR. Royal Assent on 19 June 2025, with key privacy rules in force from 5 February 2026.
In Blake v Fox [2025] EWCA Civ 1321, England's Court of Appeal revived Laurence Fox's libel counterclaim, finding the trial judge misapplied the serious harm test.