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Divorce report, intellectual threats, High Court possession, & Undertakings

The silly (ice cream) season; Inside the judge’s notebook; and the 18-month trap.

Petitioners to be truthful; Chinese Tiger judgment; & getting rid of the judge

HMCTS needs you!
Paralysing the persistent.
Main interests excitement.
Costs cursing.

It was the judge wot did it; At a Laugh; Files separated: Latest!

119 year service; clutter clearance & picking up litigation

Guess the interest rate; coughing gender pay; Ooops; & enforcement tort.

Reasonable losers; invites to OS; statutorily demanding; actuaries on a high.

When to tell the insurers; getting police to pay for Green Book loss; mobile home owners celebrate; & new rules, old PD.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Set creates new client and business development role amid growth

Winckworth Sherwood—Charlie Hancock

Private wealth and tax offering bolstered by partner hire

Browne Jacobson—Matthew Kemp

Firm grows real estate team with tenth partner hire this financial year

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Who’s on the 2026 silk list?

The rank of King’s Counsel (KC) has been awarded to 96 barristers, and no solicitors, in the latest silk round

NLJ this week: When your brain signs the contract

Neurotechnology is poised to transform contract law—and unsettle it. Writing in NLJ this week, Harry Lambert, barrister at Outer Temple Chambers and founder of the Centre for Neurotechnology & Law, and Dr Michelle Sharpe, barrister at the Victorian Bar, explore how brain–computer interfaces could both prove and undermine consent

NLJ this week: Comparators—how close is close enough?

Comparators remain the fault line of discrimination law. In this week's NLJ, Anjali Malik, partner at Bellevue Law, and Mukhtiar Singh, barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, review a bumper year of appellate guidance clarifying how tribunals should approach ‘actual’ and ‘evidential’ comparators. A new six-stage framework stresses a simple starting point: identify the treatment first

NLJ this week: Domicile—more than where you live

In cross-border divorces, domicile can decide everything. In NLJ this week, Jennifer Headon, legal director and head of international family, Isobel Inkley, solicitor, and Fiona Collins, trainee solicitor, all at Birketts LLP, unpack a Court of Appeal ruling that re-centres nuance in jurisdiction disputes. The court held that once a domicile of choice is established, the burden lies on the party asserting its loss

NLJ this week: Arbitration’s fast lane—with guardrails

Early determination is no longer a novelty in arbitration. In NLJ this week, Gustavo Moser, arbitration specialist lawyer at Lexis+, charts the global embrace of summary disposal powers, now embedded in the Arbitration Act 1996 and mirrored worldwide. Tribunals may swiftly dismiss claims with ‘no real prospect of succeeding’, but only if fairness is preserved

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Civil way

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Winckworth Sherwood—Charlie Hancock

Browne Jacobson—Matthew Kemp