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A High Court judge ordered the Ministry of Defence to pay indemnity costs after it repeatedly missed deadlines in the Afghan relocation test cases. The ruling decides nothing about the policy, but a good deal about whether the state keeps the rules it sets for others.
The Supreme Court declined to hear a case on whether schools may ban a political slogan as disguised vulgarity. Two Trump-appointed Sixth Circuit judges split on the answer. What the record shows, and what the denial does not mean.
A federal judge in Florida dismissed a noncitizen-voting prosecution because Congress, he held, lacked the power to write the statute. The ruling is narrow, contested and widely misdescribed. What it decides, and what it leaves open.
The Home Office says Britain’s modern slavery system is open to misuse and is legislating accordingly. Its own June 2026 statistics show record referrals, a rising backlog, and no published reasons for negative decisions in the latest release. The case for reform rests on evidence not yet on the page.
On October 1, a federal judge ordered the government to answer questions about prosecutors’ candor under penalty of perjury, while deferring a special prosecutor. The unresolved issue is constitutional: who may prosecute contempt when the executive branch is the target?
For nine years HUD did not produce the improper-payment estimates federal law requires for its two largest rental-assistance programs. In September its inspector general did: at least $2.7 billion a year. HUD disputes part of the finding.
A High Court judge found the Home Office changed asylum accommodation protections for torture survivors without consulting the charities involved. Two months later it restored them, but only pending further consideration.
A High Court judge upheld the refusal of a couple’s asylum claim, yet found the Home Office defended their detention by citing family accommodation that had been closed since 2020. The Home Office conceded the separation was unlawful.
The Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration credits real digital border gains, but finds the largest remaining benefit is the least mature, partly modelled, and without a clearly stated owner as the programme closes in March 2027.
On October 1, right-to-work checks in Britain extended to gig, subcontract and platform labour. A minister had demanded an end to account substitution in November 2023. The final guidance arrived on the day the law took effect, and the Home Office still cannot say how many people are working illegally.
A federal judge found that Donald Trump’s $10 billion suit against the IRS was brought for an improper purpose and lacked a genuine adversary. On September 29 the Eleventh Circuit declined to pause the sanctions. The record raises a question conservatives have long asked of others: what happens when the executive branch sits on both sides of the table?
On October 1 the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether federal law requires detaining long-resident immigrants without bond hearings. The government reversed a three-decade practice by memo and agency adjudication, and the lower courts have mostly refused to follow.