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The regulation of crowdfunding of litigation.

Hamas filmed each hostage before they executed them in cold blood. To all those people, including many colleagues in law, who have defended and even celebrated the evil that is Hamas: we see you, and we are disgusted.

This follows failure of the application for judicial review of the temporary ban on new non-NHS prescriptions of puberty blockers for adolescents, litigation for which the GLP raised c£60,000 in crowdfunding, and other unsuccessful litigation supported by the GLP in this field

Readers will be familiar with crowdfunders. They may be less familiar with "representative actions", whereby a single claimant is able to bring a claim on behalf of an entire class, with no need for them to be known to the single claimant. Has pros & cons lawgazette.co.uk/news/group-fli…

The BSB’s proposed new rules seek to impose a positive duty which is likely to be as elusive of fulfilment as providing an alternative to a “cephalopod dish” at an institutional dinner for new members that “everyone is comfortable with”