Ofcom is under fire after filings revealed it donated £50,000 to The Guardian Foundation — raising questions about the regulator’s impartiality at a time when it is enforcing the Online Safety Act against other media outlets.
Analysis by the Criminal Bar Association shows the Crown Court backlog is falling — yet the Government remains silent. Acknowledging this would undermine its case for curtailing the right to trial by jury.
The Home Secretary has announced the abolition of non-crime hate incidents in England and Wales — a long-campaigned-for FSU victory — but the fight for common sense policing isn’t over yet.
The FSU is looking for a software engineer to work on AI automation, systems integration, and security. £35,000–£40,000, full remote.
The Labour leadership has removed the whip from Karl Turner MP, who led backbench opposition to the Government's plans to restrict the right to trial by jury. The FSU believes this looks very much like tone policing.
The Lady Chief Justice, Baroness Carr, has raised serious concerns about David Lammy's plan to curtail the right to trial by jury, warning that judge-only trials could expose judges to an increased risk of physical abuse.
The APPG on Freedom of Speech hosted a roundtable on the Government's plan to curb jury trials, with speeches from Karl Turner MP, Nick Timothy MP, Kirsty Brimelow KC, Adam King, and Dr Bryn Harris.
The Free Speech Union is backing Royal Holloway student Brodie Mitchell in taking legal action against his university after he was suspended for a comment at the Freshers' Fair.
The Government has broken its promise to Labour rebels opposing jury trial reforms, raising fresh doubts about whether opponents can trust ministers to negotiate in good faith.
The Government's independent reviewer of counter-terrorism law has warned that the new anti-Muslim hostility definition will lead to confusion and self-censorship — with no clear guidance on what it means.
The Free Speech Union has launched a legal challenge against the Government's "anti-Muslim hostility" definition, warning it threatens free speech and risks creating a back-door Muslim blasphemy law.
Leading lawyer Flora Page KC has quit her role on the Legal Services Board in protest at David Lammy's "tyrannical" jury reforms, warning the plans would "rip the heart out" of the rule of law.
