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A4ID sets out the role of the global legal community & the support offered by Advocates for International Development

The Supreme Court will sit in Manchester next March—the first time it has sat outside one of the UK’s four capital cities.

The Law Society, together with campaign group Lawyers for Lawyers, has called on the Iranian government to halt the arbitrary arrest, detention and ill treatment of lawyers.

In the second in a series of articles in NLJ on child abductions, Mani Singh Basi looks at cases where children go on holiday and are not returned home.

Mani Singh Basi examines the benefits & limitations of the Hague Convention in child abduction cases

"One feels that one is experiencing some of the horror of living under an evil regime and what it takes to oppose such a regime as a lawyer."

Writing in NLJ this week, Marc Weller, professor of international law at Cambridge University and a barrister at Doughty Street, asks whether President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine represents an attempt to revive the use of force as an acceptable tool of national policy

Lawyers condemn ‘act of war’ and warn of exposure to sanctions

LexisNexis UK has collated a list of all EU instruments relating to actions taken in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as of 1 March 2022

Lawyers have called on the government to do its best to help avert a refugee and humanitarian crisis, following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia

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Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Partner joins commercial property team in Taunton office

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Londstanding London firm appoints new senior partner

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Commercial team in London welcomes technology specialist as partner

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NLJ this week: Policing the safeguards when appointing trust corporations

What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection?

NLJ this week: What the court considers when assessing refusal of ADR

Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?

NLJ this week: Finding innovative ways to fund the justice gap

When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Two’s company, but three’s a crowd in financial provision cases

When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ

Charities Appeals Supplement: March 2026

NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue

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International justice

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean