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The hacked Legal Aid Agency (LAA) IT system for logging work and making payments will be down for at least another month, lawyers have been told

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) data breach is worse than previously thought, it emerged last week

MPs have launched an inquiry into access to justice, including the potential for an ‘access to justice fund levy’

Law firms and chambers are prime targets for increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. With sensitive data, time-critical work, and client funds at stake, the consequences of a breach can be catastrophic. Writing in NLJ this week, Tom Pelham and Sam Lunn of Kennedys stress the importance of cyber insurance and having a robust incident response plan in place

How should the legal sector prepare for & react to cyberattacks? Tom Pelham & Sam Lunn explain

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) online portal is still offline following the cyber-attack in April

An entire cohort of people who applied for legal aid in the past 15 years has been warned to be on guard following a major cyber-attack at the Legal Aid Agency (LAA)

The rise of deepfake videos, deepfake porn and unsolicited sexual images (cyberflashing) is an alarming and increasingly prevalent problem. In this week’s NLJ, Jenni Dempster KC and Maleeka Bokhari, Red Lion Chambers, look into this abuse, the harm it causes and the legal protections that exist, notably the Online Safety Act 2023.

From deepfakes to cyberflashing, 2025 must be the year to eliminate the technology-facilitated abuse of women, write Jenni Dempster KC & Maleeka Bokhari

The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is due to be implemented this month. Writing in this week’s NLJ, Charles Maurice, partner, and Brigitte Simpson, associate, Stevens & Bolton, look at the implications for the financial services sector.

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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

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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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Cybercrime

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Kadie Bennett, Anthony Collins

Osborne Clarke—Lara Burch

Keoghs—Louise Jackson & Katie Everson