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Quiet summer? Think again! Ian Smith ventures off the beaten track to explore the latest (& most unusual) cases
Caroline Field explains why delaying agreement of undertakings doesn’t pay…& may cost
Mass dismissal of P&O staff has shed a light on limitations of UK labour law, says Charles Pigott
Relationships matter, says Ian Smith. And nowhere more so than in modern employment law which grapples with some of the more painful aspects of working life
2021 broke recruitment records for employment lawyers, according to research by market analytics firm Vacancysoft
Harvey general editor Ian Smith celebrates a very special anniversary with a toast to history & the years to come
Sarah Rushton & Sophie Georgiou explore international developments in flexible working & the right to disconnect
Employment barrister Ian Smith, general editor of Harvey, toasts five decades of ‘the practitioner’s bible on employment law’. It’s a fast-moving area of law, so much so that ‘the hard copy version, now in six volumes, would now need a pick-up truck to carry’
Making history: Ian Smith performs a perfect loop-the-loop & serves up three significant Court of Appeal decisions
Charles Pigott reports on a Court of Appeal ruling widening the scope for back-dated holiday pay claims
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Sonya Sceats, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law

NLJ Career Profile: Sonya Sceats, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Sonya Sceats, next director and CEO of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, discusses her long-standing mission to uphold and defend the rule of law

Anthony Collins—four appointments

Anthony Collins—four appointments

Property and commercial teams bolstered by senior hires

Keystone Law—Ben Knowles

Keystone Law—Ben Knowles

International arbitration specialist strenghtens the team

NEWS
Manchester’s online LLM has accelerated career progression for its graduates
Judging is ‘more intellectually demanding than any other role in public life’—and far messier than outsiders imagine. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC reflects on decades spent wrestling with unclear legislation, fragile precedent and human fallibility
The long-predicted death of the billable hour may finally be here—and this time, it’s armed with a scythe. In a sweeping critique of time-based billing, Ian McDougall, president of the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation, argues in this week's NLJ that artificial intelligence has made hourly charging ‘intellectually, commercially and ethically indefensible’
From fake authorities to rent reform, the civil courts have had a busy start to 2026. In his latest 'Civil way' column for NLJ this week, Stephen Gold surveys a procedural landscape where guidance, discretion and discipline are all under strain
Fact-finding hearings remain a fault line in private family law. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Rylatt and Robyn Laye of Anthony Gold Solicitors analyse recent appeals exposing the dangers of rushed or fragmented findings
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