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The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has published its latest gender pay gap and ethnicity pay gap reports.

The Law Commission has published its ‘Annual Report 2021—22’, which highlights the work the Commission has undertaken in the previous 12 months.

Nine out of ten chambers responding have adopted at least one recommendation from the Bar Council’s ‘Race at the Bar’ report last year, according to an interim progress survey.

50% of senior leaders in the financial and professional services sector should come from a non-professional background by 2030, the City of London’s Socio-Economic Diversity Taskforce has urged in its final report.

The Law Society of England and Wales has welcomed the final report from the City of London’s Socio-Economic Diversity Taskforce which outlines its five-point pathway of tangible steps for organisations in the financial and professional services sector to achieve socio-economic diversity at senior leadership level.

The Law Society is marking Disability History Month (16 November to 16 December) by sharing stories from disabled legal professionals.

Carrie Laws explains why D/deaf awareness training should be considered a critical issue for the legal sector

Women barristers earn one third less than their male colleagues, Bar Council analysis has found.

Recruitment and retention, alongside monitoring the global political and economic situation, are the main threats facing the legal sector, according to a report launched this week at the International Bar Association (IBA) conference in Miami.

It will take more than 120 years for women, Black and Asian people to be proportionately represented within the judiciary if the current rate of progress continues.

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NLJ Career Profile: Daniel Burbeary, Michelman Robinson

Daniel Burbeary, office managing partner of Michelman Robinson, discusses launching in London, the power of the law, and what the kitchen can teach us about litigating

Wedlake Bell—Rebecca Christie

Firm welcomes partner with specialist expertise in family and art law

Birketts—Álvaro Aznar

Dual-qualified partner joins international private client team

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NLJ this week: Driving test fraudsters steer towards jail

Cheating in driving tests is surging—and courts are responding firmly. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort Law School charts a rise in impersonation and tech-assisted fraud, with 2,844 attempts recorded in a year

NLJ this week: Deepfakes demand data law muscle

As AI-generated ‘deepfake’ images proliferate, the law may already have the tools to respond. In NLJ this week, Jon Belcher of Excello Law argues that such images amount to personal data processing under UK GDPR

NLJ this week: 40% penalty for coercive control

In a striking financial remedies ruling, the High Court cut a wife’s award by 40% for coercive and controlling behaviour. Writing in NLJ this week, Chris Bryden and Nicole Wallace of 4 King’s Bench Walk analyse LP v MP [2025] EWFC 473

NLJ this week: Mbappé row spotlights ‘ethics bonuses’

A €60.9m award to Kylian Mbappé has refocused attention on football’s controversial ‘ethics bonus’ clauses. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Estelle Ivanova of Valloni Attorneys at Law examines how such provisions sit within French labour law

NLJ this week: Appeal court reins in ‘wrong defendant’ switcheroo

The Court of Appeal has slammed the brakes on claimants trying to swap defendants after limitation has expired. In Adcamp LLP v Office Properties and BDB Pitmans v Lee [2026] EWCA Civ 50, it overturned High Court rulings that had allowed substitutions under s 35(6)(b) of the Limitation Act 1980, reports Sarah Crowther of DAC Beachcroft in this week's NLJ

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Diversity

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Daniel Burbeary, Michelman Robinson

Wedlake Bell—Rebecca Christie

Birketts—Álvaro Aznar