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As Stephen Gold ends his journey through the archives at 1995, he meets a canine court user and a sweet trolley suffering from shock

Ombudsman shows the way; free cut-out; Court of Appeal goes weedy; housing rent increase trap; new royal warrant plea.

Latest CPR changes; latest FPR changes; new Official Solicitor form; new standard orders.

NLJ columnist Stephen Gold takes us back to the grimy days of the 1980s in this week’s 'Archive: Civil Way'.

Stephen Gold discovers a criminal poet, Clerkenwell solicitors cut up rough over PACE pay, & the NLJ gives the thumbs up to Spider Woman

QOCS changes; jumping financial remedy queue; suing the state; Fast Track costs on small claim; life after Tate Modern; new FPR amendments.

Insurers lashed by whipping; special account up; mousing to midnight; equity demands detriment; truth in the CoP; posties deemed to work; words to take your heart away

In 1975, Stephen Gold encounters the curious case of the cheap bottle of Château Lafite, the slowest way to send a fax, and a solicitor with a computer

Traffic commissioner etiquette; a spot of SI trouble; latest FPR update; lessors clobbered online; second bite for flight delays; family overspending.

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NLJ Career Profile: Kadie Bennett, Anthony Collins

Kadie Bennett, senior associate at Anthony Collins and chair of the Resolution West Midlands Group, discusses her long-standing passion for family law and calls for unity in the profession

Osborne Clarke—Lara Burch

Firm appoints new UK senior partner for 2026

Keoghs—Louise Jackson & Katie Everson

Healthcare and sports legal team expands in the north west

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Give your views on disclosure in court

Lawyers and users of the business and property courts are invited to share their views on disclosure, in particular the operation of PD 57AD and the use of Technology Assisted Review (TAR) and artificial intelligence (AI)

NLJ this week: Making Big Tech pay for digital addiction

Social media giants should face tortious liability for the psychological harms their platforms inflict, argues Harry Lambert of Outer Temple Chambers in this week’s NLJ

NLJ this week: Courts caught in a ‘hierarchy of privacy’

Ian Gascoigne of LexisNexis dissects the uneasy balance between open justice and confidentiality in England’s civil courts, in this week's NLJ. From public hearings to super-injunctions, he identifies five tiers of privacy—from fully open proceedings to entirely secret ones—showing how a patchwork of exceptions has evolved without clear design

NLJ this week: Leaseholders stuck in limbo

The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024—once heralded as a breakthrough—has instead plunged leaseholders into confusion, warns Shabnam Ali-Khan of Russell-Cooke in this week’s NLJ

NLJ this week: When a trial period becomes a ‘reasonable adjustment’

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now confirmed that offering a disabled employee a trial period in an alternative role can itself be a 'reasonable adjustment' under the Equality Act 2010: in this week's NLJ, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve analyses the evolving case law

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Civil way

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Kadie Bennett, Anthony Collins

Osborne Clarke—Lara Burch

Keoghs—Louise Jackson & Katie Everson