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Lawyers have welcomed the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak’s job retention scheme rescue package for employees but identified questions to be answered

Whether or not a lawyer falls into the category of ‘key worker’ and can therefore keep their child in school or at nursery may fluctuate according to workload, the government has said

Statement from Lord Chief Justice: Jury trials

Judges have been issued with guidance on how to conduct remote hearings, to assist with civil justice in the time of COVID-19

The Information Commissioner’s Office has sought to reassure data controllers on compliance during the COVID-19 outbreak

Barristers and other lawyers have been categorised as key workers, enabling their children to continue to attend nursery, school and college

Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, has issued national guidance on COVID-19 for the Family Court and the High Court Family Division

The Law Society is relaying solicitors’ concerns on the impact of COVID-19 to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and Legal Aid Agency (LAA), it has said

More than 200 Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) students have signed a letter criticising the regulator for its handling of delays to barrister exams in response to COVID-19

In a time of crisis what measures can the government introduce under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004? Michael Nash reports

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WSP Solicitors—Amie Williamson

Gloucestershire firm boosts residential conveyancing team

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Firm strengthens corporate team in Worcester with new hire

London Market FOIL—Ling Ong

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NLJ this week: Employment law’s fine margins

From gender-critical speech to notice periods and incapability dismissals, employment law continues to turn on fine distinctions. In his latest employment law brief for NLJ, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School reviews a cluster of recent decisions, led by Bailey v Stonewall, where the Court of Appeal clarified the limits of third-party liability under the Equality Act

NLJ this week: Assisted dying under the legal microscope

Assisted dying remains one of the most fraught fault lines in English law, where compassion and criminal liability sit uncomfortably close. Writing in NLJ this week, Julie Gowland and Barny Croft of Birketts examine how acts motivated by care—booking travel, completing paperwork, or offering emotional support—can still fall within the wide reach of the Suicide Act 1961

Flaws found in fixed costs regime

The extension of fixed recoverable costs (FRC) from low-value personal injury to most civil cases worth up to £100,000 ‘is failing to deliver what it promised’, the Law Society has warned

Brimelow sets out Bar priorities for 2026

Bar campaigns will focus on protecting juries, legal aid and children’s rights in the year ahead with a working group already looking into the age of criminal responsibility, chair Kirsty Brimelow KC has said

CEO appointed at legal super-regulator

Richard Orpin has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of the Legal Services Board (LSB), which oversees all nine legal regulators

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Covid-19

MOVERS & SHAKERS

WSP Solicitors—Amie Williamson

mfg Solicitors—Andrew Johnson

London Market FOIL—Ling Ong