Law

Published: 20 August 2025 | The English Chronicle Desk Tensions over the housing of asylum seekers in hotels have escalated after Epping Forest District Council was granted a temporary High Court injunction preventing migrants from being accommodated at The Bell Hotel. The council argued that the hotel had become a “feeding ground for unrest,” citing a series of recent violent protests that resulted in multiple arrests and injuries to police...

Published: 20 August 2025 | The English Chronicle Desk The UK government has signed a new agreement with Iraq to return illegal migrants as part of its wider strategy to deter small boat crossings across the English Channel. The deal, signed by Home Office minister Dan Jarvis during a visit to London by Iraq’s deputy foreign minister Faud Hussein, establishes a formal process for returning Iraqi nationals who arrive in...

Published: 20 August 2025 | The English Chronicle Desk A Sanex shower gel television advert has been banned in the UK after regulators ruled it reinforced an offensive racial stereotype by suggesting that black skin was “problematic” while white skin was portrayed as “superior.” The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) made the ruling following two complaints about the ad, which aired in June and featured contrasting depictions of women with different...

Published: 18 August 2025. The English Chronicle Desk Victoria McCloud, the UK’s first transgender judge and now a litigation strategist at W-Legal, has initiated proceedings at the European Court of Human Rights challenging the process that led to the Supreme Court’s ruling on biological sex. McCloud argues that the Supreme Court undermined her Article 6 rights to a fair trial by refusing to hear her representation and by excluding evidence...

Published: 18 August 2025. The English Chronicle Desk Novelist Sally Rooney, internationally acclaimed author of Normal People, has reaffirmed her commitment to supporting the direct-action group Palestine Action, declaring that she intends to continue using royalties from BBC adaptations of her works to fund the organisation. This comes despite the Home Office last month designating the group a proscribed terrorist organisation, making support for it a criminal offence under the...

Published: 15 August 2025 — The English Chronicle Desk An inquest jury has concluded that a vulnerable 14-year-old girl, Ruth Szymankiewicz, was unlawfully killed after an agency support worker failed to supervise her at a secure psychiatric unit. Ruth, who had complex mental health issues and was deemed a suicide risk, was left alone at the privately run Huntercombe Hospital near Maidenhead on 12 February 2022. She harmed herself in...

Published: 15 August 2025 — The English Chronicle Desk Two officers from Devon & Cornwall Police have been dismissed for gross misconduct following the death of a man who was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed that Pc Grant Mackenzie and Pc Dean Hunkin were found to have breached the standards expected of police officers in their handling of the case. Both were...

Published: 15 August 2025 — The English Chronicle Desk A survivor of the prolific catfish offender Max Hollingsbee has shared her harrowing story, revealing the long-lasting impact of his crimes and her determination to help other victims. Immy, not her real name, described how Hollingsbee manipulated her as a vulnerable teenager, stealing her innocence and leaving emotional scars that she carries to this day. Hollingsbee, 21, of Orient Circle, Lurgan,...

Published: 14 August 2025. The English Chronicle Desk A former political candidate in New Mexico has been sentenced to 80 years in federal prison for his role in a series of drive-by shootings targeting the homes of state and local officials in Albuquerque. Solomon Peña, a failed Republican candidate, was convicted earlier this year on charges including conspiracy and weapons violations, stemming from attacks carried out in December 2022 and...

Published: 13 August. The English Chronicle Desk New national guidance advises police forces to consider revealing the ethnicity and nationality of suspects in high-profile and sensitive cases. The policy aims to enhance public trust and counter the spread of misinformation, following criticism from public figures such as Nigel Farage regarding police handling of some notable incidents. The guidance, effective immediately, states that officers should only release such information if there...