Lucy McCaughan
Law graduate
Lucy McCaughan graduated from New College, Oxford in 2023 with first class honours in Law. She is currently working at the Law Commission in the Property, Family and Trusts Team. Lucy is assisting the Business Tenancies project but she maintains a keen interest in the Family bar. She will commence the Bar Course at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy in September, having been awarded a Lord Mansfield scholarship by Lincoln’s Inn.
Law graduate
Lucy McCaughan graduated from New College, Oxford in 2023 with first class honours in Law. She is currently working at the Law Commission in the Property, Family and Trusts Team. Lucy is assisting the Business Tenancies project but she maintains a keen interest in the Family bar. She will commence the Bar Course at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy in September, having been awarded a Lord Mansfield scholarship by Lincoln’s Inn.
Lucy McCaughan, winner of 4PB's inaugural Alan Inglis essay competition, puts the case for the expansion of legal parenthood beyond the current dyadic model
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NEWS
Personal injury lawyers have welcomed a government U-turn on a ‘substantial prejudice’ defence that risked enabling defendants in child sexual abuse civil cases to have proceedings against them dropped
Children can claim for ‘lost years’ damages in personal injury cases, the Supreme Court has held in a landmark judgment
Holiday lets may promise easy returns, but restrictive covenants can swiftly scupper plans. Writing in NLJ this week, Andrew Francis of Serle Court recounts how covenants limiting use to a ‘private dwelling house’ or ‘private residence’ have repeatedly defeated short-term letting schemes
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already embedded in the civil courts, but regulation lags behind practice. Writing in NLJ this week, Ben Roe of Baker McKenzie charts a landscape where AI assists with transcription, case management and document handling, yet raises acute concerns over evidence, advocacy and even judgment-writing
The Supreme Court has drawn a firm line under branding creativity in regulated markets. In Dairy UK Ltd v Oatly AB, it ruled that Oatly’s ‘post-milk generation’ trade mark unlawfully deployed a protected dairy designation. In NLJ this week, Asima Rana of DWF explains that the court prioritised ‘regulatory clarity over creative branding choices’, holding that ‘designation’ extends beyond product names to marketing slogans
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