February is LGBT+ History month, and to mark the occasion we’ve put together a timeline of LGBT+ legal history. Up to date to 2021, it certainly isn’t comprehensive, but it does give some shocking insights into the long and arduous process of fighting for equality and justice.

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Today is Blue Monday! Falling on the third Monday of January, Blue Monday supposedly marks the most depressing day of the year. Although a very complicated-looking formula exists to calculate it, Blue Mondays origins seem to stem less from mathematics and more from covert PR for holiday companies...

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Current Awareness - Hospital worker guilty of child sex offences – BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Current Awareness - SRA decides against changing who pays for compensation fund – Legal Futures www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...

Current Awareness - Boosting cybersecurity: New Software Security Code of Practice for software vendors – Kingsley Napley Corporate and Commercial Law Blog www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blo...

Current Awareness - Three child sex abusers have sentences increased after solicitor general’s intervention – The Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Current Awareness - GMC challenged in High Court after embolism death – BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Current Awareness - NHS medical negligence liabilities hit £58.2bn amid calls to improve patient safety – The Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Current Awareness - Anyone who assists self-harm could face five-year jail term under new plan – The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Current Awareness - The convictions of Lucy Letby: should they be overturned? – The Guardian www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Current Awareness - High Court finds defamatory paedophile meanings in Paisley v Linehan judgment – Doughty Street Chambers www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/high-co...

Current Awareness - Peter Sullivan has murder conviction quashed after 38 years in jail – The Guardian www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...

Current Awareness - Capacity to enter into a prenuptial agreement – Kingsley Napley Family Law Blog www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blo...

Current Awareness - Overview of the Family Justice Council Guidance on Neurodiversity – Garden Court Chambers gardencourtchambers.co.uk/overview-of-...

Current Awareness - The reality of court accessibility for wheelchair users – Farrar’s Building www.farrarsbuilding.co.uk/the-reality-...

Current Awareness - Provision of child play spaces should be duty in English planning law, MPs say – The Guardian www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Current Awareness - The risks of internal social media – Blackstone Chambers www.employeecompetition.com/the-risks-of...

Current Awareness - Part 3 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 Now in Force – Henderson Chambers www.hendersonchambers.co.uk/2025/05/13/a...

Current Awareness - Immigration White Paper: A Summary of the Key Proposals – EIN Blog www.ein.org.uk/blog/immigra...

Current Awareness - Bratt v Jones [2025] EWCA Civ 562 – Hailsham Chambers www.hailshamchambers.com/images/uploa...

Current Awareness - High Court Finds West Dulwich Low Traffic Neighbourhood Unlawful: WDAG v LB Lambeth – Francis Taylor Building www.ftbchambers.co.uk/news/news-vi...

Current Awareness - Placement of children abroad: consultation and consent – Garden Court Chambers gardencourtchambers.co.uk/placement-of...

Curent Awareness - Bilta (UK) Ltd v Tradition Financial Services Ltd [2025] UKSC 18 – Exchange Chambers www.exchangechambers.co.uk/bilta-uk-ltd...

Current Awareness - More miscarriages of justice ‘inevitable’, says CCRC review lawyer after Peter Sullivan freed – The Guardian www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...

Current Awareness - Clarity and guidance on parental alienation/ alienating behaviours-The Family Justice Council – Becket Chambers becket-chambers.co.uk/articles/cla...

Current Awareness - Two men found guilty of ‘mindless, moronic’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree – The Guardian www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Current Awareness - Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia face ‘double figure sentences’ – BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Current Awareness - Low-traffic neighbourhood scheme ruled unlawful in landmark decision – The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Current Awareness - CA refuses to hear appeal from man who stalked judge – Legal Futures www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...

Current Awareness - UK woman loses jail term appeal after killing man as he sexually assaulted her – The Guardian www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Current Awareness - Company fined £58,000 for bloodstained butchers shop – BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Current Awareness - England’s Independent Football Regulator – OUT-LAW.com www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/guid...

Current Awareness - Hotel rooms and intentional homelessness – Nearly Legal nearlylegal.co.uk/2025/05/hote...

Current Awareness - High Court finds council consultation on low traffic neighbourhood scheme was flawed – Local Government Lawyer www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/transport-an...

Current Awareness - Supreme Court confirms scope of liability in fraudulent trading claims – OUT-LAW.com www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news...

Current Awareness - Legal Services Board ratchets up pressure over BSB performance – Legal Futures www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...

Current Awareness - Paedophile teacher banned from profession after more than 120,000 child abuse images found on laptop – The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Current Awareness - Beach v. South Hams District Council [2025] EWCA Civ – 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square www.4-5.co.uk/publications...

Current Awareness - How Cargo Interests Unintentionally Frustrate the Chosen Dispute Resolution Mode and Law in Cargo Claims – 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square www.4-5.co.uk/assets/commo...

Current Awareness - Nature group threatens judicial review against Labour’s planning bill – The Guardian www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Current Awareness - Wikipedia challenging UK law it says exposes it to ‘manipulation and vandalism’ – The Guardian www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Current Awareness - Killer ‘should have been arrested’ before murder – BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Current Awareness - Judge blasts claimant lawyers for “appalling professional behaviour” in JR proceedings – Local Government Lawyer www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/litigation-a...

Current Awareness - Murderer who shot dead Met sergeant Matt Ratana loses conviction and sentence appeal bids – The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Current Awareness - Public Law Newsletter – Spire Barristers www.spirebarristers.co.uk/2025/05/06/p...

Current Awareness - UK tribunal clarifies Covid-era legislation that excluded cider from drinks definition – OUT-LAW.com www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news...

Current Awareness - ‘Utterly traumatised’: anger at ordeal of UK woman accused of illegal abortion – The Guardian www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...