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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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MOVERS & SHAKERS

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

Commercial property and child law teams expand with senior hires

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Set expands London and Singapore offering with senior international disputes hires

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Firm strengthens real estate and litigation teams with partner promotions

NEWS
Behind the profession’s polished exterior, lawyers are ‘internally drained rather than physically tired’, according to a stark assessment of burnout in legal practice
Five years after the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 came into force, concerns remain that the family courts continue to minimise allegations of abuse in child contact disputes
Uber has built a formidable strategy for insulating itself from liability for drivers’ conduct, but the legal terrain differs sharply between the US and England and Wales
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 marks a constitutional watershed by severing the centuries-old link between hereditary titles and automatic membership of the upper chamber
The Civil Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes
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