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Prorogation ruling stirs debate
The Supreme Court’s seismic ruling that the prime minister’s advice to the Queen to suspend Parliament was both justiciable and unlawful prompts constitutional questions, a senior lawyer has said.
25 September 2019
Private prosecution: take two?
Potential for private prosecution to be brought against PM 
25 September 2019
Parliament was not prorogued Premium Content
Michael Zander QC assesses the Supreme Court’s remarkable decision
24 September 2019 / Michael Zander KC
Nation transfixed by the Supreme Court
All eyes were on the Supreme Court livestream this week as eleven Justices heard argument on the matter of whether the decision to prorogue Parliament was lawful.
19 September 2019
What can Sir John Major add to the Supreme Court? Premium Content
Michael Zander QC on the former prime minister’s written case
19 September 2019 / Michael Zander KC
Prorogation 2019: the government’s case Premium Content
Michael Zander QC on the government’s argument that proroguing Parliament was lawful
18 September 2019 / Michael Zander KC
All eyes on the Supreme Court…
A leading jurist, originally sceptical, now believes there is a ‘fair chance’ the prime minister may lose the prorogation case in the Supreme Court this week.
17 September 2019
What odds on Boris Johnson losing the Supreme Court case? Premium Content
Michael Zander QC on the strength of the argument that proroguing Parliament was unlawful
17 September 2019 / Michael Zander KC
Acting up: will the government abide by the law? Premium Content

Michael Zander QC traces the Benn Bill’s speedy progress to the statute book

16 September 2019 / Michael Zander KC
The Brexit week ahead
Attention focuses on the Supreme Court this week, as Justices consider three appeals on prorogation.
16 September 2019
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NLJ this week: Renters’ Rights revolution begins—brace for tribunal chaos
he 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
NLJ this week: Civil procedure gets a spring overhaul
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
NLJ this week: Why GP complaints are going nowhere
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
NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall
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
NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?
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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