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Michael L Nash explores the secretive history surrounding the sealing of royal wills
It is time for the UK government to stop looking inward & restore its place as a global human rights champion, says Geoffrey Bindman
A rash game? David Greene reflects on recent events & predicts the legal highs & lows in the year ahead
Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC laments the direction of travel of the UK government when it comes to human rights and turns his attention to the current Lord Chancellor’s stated views, in this week’s NLJ
The House of Lords rejected the Government’s controversial amendments dealing with extreme climate protest on Monday, the sixth and last day of the Report stage of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Michael Zander QC considers the Justice Secretary’s plans for a modern Bill of Rights
The Cabinet Office has been fined £500,000 for disclosing postal addresses of the 2020 New Year Honours recipients online, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed.

In a series of high-level roundtables organised by LexisNexis and the National Council for the Evaluation of Regulations, lawyers, a former Prime Minister, ministers, government officials, MPs and academics debated on how best to draft law

While political sleaze hit the headlines this week, lawyers have been fighting to preserve accountability of public bodies on a separate front
Ministers ‘have grown accustomed to the ease with which laws can be made… and seem reluctant to relinquish law-making functions back to Parliament’ now the initial stages of the pandemic have passed, the Bingham Centre has warned
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Firm expands London disputes practice with senior partner hire

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Senior associate promotion strengthens real estate offering

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Leading patent litigator joins intellectual property team

NEWS
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
Writing in NLJ this week, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers argues that the ‘failure to prevent’ model of corporate criminal responsibility—covering bribery, tax evasion, and fraud—should be embraced, not resisted
Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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