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The so-called ‘Dieselgate’ quantum trial will go ahead against Mercedes, after the High Court rejected an attempt by car owners to delay the proceedings

In-house solicitors in the public and private sectors have been issued with Law Society guidance on climate change

The Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge to a second runway at Gatwick Airport, with no right of further appeal, in Barclay and another v Secretary of State for Transport [2026] EWCA Civ 1040

The High Court has given the go-ahead to a judicial review against environmental regulations that could enable genetically engineered plants to enter the food system untraced

Swedish company Oatly has lost its bid to trademark the term ‘post milk generation’, after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favour of the dairy industry trade association, Dairy UK

The High Court has dealt a blow to thousands of Brazilians suing mining giant BHP Group following the collapse of the Fundão Dam

Australia-headquartered mining giant BHP has been held strictly liable as ‘polluters’ for the Fundão dam disaster in Brazil, in one of the largest group actions ever brought in the English courts

Adam Carruthers and Daniel Graham have been sentenced to four years and three months for felling the 150-year-old sycamore tree by Hadrian’s Wall, in the UK’s first custodial case for illegal tree felling

Last month, the Supreme Court in Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority confirmed that s 10(1) of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 grants the public a right to camp on Dartmoor’s commons. Writing in NLJ this week, Nicholas Dobson analyses the landmark ruling

Nicholas Dobson analyses the Supreme Court ruling on the public right to camp in Dartmoor National Park

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Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

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NLJ this week: When bots libel

Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention

NLJ this week: A point not pleaded

The High Court has upheld a rare successful serious-irregularity challenge after an arbitrator relied on an implied term neither party had advanced

NLJ this week: Prophecy meets practice

Thirty years after The Future of Law shook a profession still using fax machines, its central forecast looks increasingly less like prophecy and more like description

Law Society RFC Festival of Sport 2026 ‘Wrap-Up’

More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month

NLJ this week: Part-time protection widens

Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars

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Environment

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss