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The Law Commission is seeking views on how to regulate alkaline hydrolysis, human composting and other funerary methods outside of burial, cremation or burial at sea

Marie Law, Director of Toxicology at AlphaBiolabs, explores the evidential benefits of nail drug and alcohol testing

The assisted dying Bill leaves these terms open to interpretation, argue Edward Hodgson & Andrew Smith

Lawyers have uncovered a major inheritance tax oversight affecting thousands of families of victims of the infected blood scandal

Rachel Davenport, Co-founder and Director at AlphaBiolabs, discusses the company’s commitment to giving back to communities across the UK.

The amended Bill disapplies the coroner’s statutory duty to investigate, so assisted deaths would receive less judicial oversight than other unnatural deaths, writes HH Thomas Teague KC

A former chief coroner of England and Wales expresses surprise that the important safeguard of coronial oversight has been lifted from those seeking an assisted death, in this week’s NLJ.

The safeguarding role of a High Court judge in the assisted dying bill currently before Parliament has been replaced by the oversight of a panel comprising a psychiatrist, social worker and lawyer. In this week’s NLJ, Sir Mark Hedley, a retired High Court judge, shares his reflections on the loss of the judicial role itself.

Barbara Mills KC, chair of the Bar Council, sets out her plans to pilot reflective practice—an approach used successfully by doctors, social workers and other stress-ridden professionals—at the Bar, in this week’s NLJ.

Sir Mark Hedley on what needs to be considered as a result of this amendment to the assisted dying Bill

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DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

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NLJ this week: Renters’ Rights revolution begins—brace for tribunal chaos

he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

NLJ this week: Civil procedure gets a spring overhaul

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation

NLJ this week: Why GP complaints are going nowhere

Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group

NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall

A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision

NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?

An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Ellisons—Marion Knocker