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What does the future hold for driverless cars? Writing in this week’s NLJ, Lucie Clinch, covers the Law Commissions’ report on automated vehicles, including issues of responsibility, liability, safety and data retention

Stuart Hardy, the new president of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers, shares his reflections & predictions on the effect of the pandemic, civil justice reform & Brexit

Climate change will present the greatest insurance risk in the year ahead, as the ‘Greta Thunberg effect’ creates a global conversation around its impact and the need to act, insurance firm Kennedys has said

For property solicitors, the intricacies of legal indemnity insurance ‘can often get lost in translation’, says legal indemnity executive and former underwriter Chloe Mulroy.

Tim Wallis introduces a new kid on the mediation block—the AFM Register of Mediators

As a result of the Criminal Finances Act 2017, there are new risks for directors and officers and their insurers. Jonathan Newbold & Marlene Henderson investigate.

Alison Padfield QC looks at cyber insurance in the light of the GDPR and asks: what is it, and who needs it?

Can litigation funding negate a security for costs application? Georgina Squire investigates

Dominic Regan reflects on the fall-out from changing funding from legal aid to a conditional fee agreement

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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Winckworth Sherwood—Tim Foley

Property litigation practice strengthened by partner hire

Kingsley Napley—Romilly Holland

International arbitration team specialist joins the team

Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Set creates new client and business development role amid growth

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Land tenure revolution begins

Property lawyers have given a cautious welcome to the government’s landmark Bill capping ground rents at £250, banning new leasehold properties and making it easier for leaseholders to switch to commonhold

Can more courts, fewer juries make a difference?

Four Nightingale courts are to be made permanent, as justice ministers continue to grapple with the record-level Crown Court backlog

Judiciary sets out diversity goals

The judiciary has set itself a trio of objectives and a trio of focus areas for the next five years, in its Judicial Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030

Gauke recommendations on sentencing implemented

The Sentencing Act 2026 received royal assent last week, bringing into law the recommendations of David Gauke’s May 2025 Independent Sentencing Review

Fee abolished for crime victims

Victims of crime are to be given free access to transcripts of Crown Court sentencing remarks, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed

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Insurance surgery

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Winckworth Sherwood—Tim Foley

Kingsley Napley—Romilly Holland

Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney