Veronica Cowan
Barrister & journalist
Barrister and journalist.
Barrister & journalist
Barrister and journalist.
It’s time for an independent body to ensure coroners’ recommendations are implemented, writes Veronica Cowan
Veronica Cowan looks at a recent decision on the weed that never dies
Is remote working here to stay? Veronica Cowan explores the post-pandemic attitude to home working in the legal sector
Veronica Cowan reports on a case which is creating uncertainty in police serious misconduct cases
Veronica Cowan reports on the ongoing strikes by criminal barristers: what will it take to repair a broken system?
Veronica Cowan discusses the benefits of driving digital conveyancing in house buying & selling
Are increasing professional indemnity insurance premiums posing a threat to small law firms? Veronica Cowan investigates
Veronica Cowan talks to the Chief Legal Ombudsman, Paul McFadden, about his plans to drive recovery & change
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton
Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner
Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan
Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office
Blake Morgan—four promotions
Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices
NEWS
The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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