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Pay cuts forcing family barristers to desert legal aid work

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SENTENCE—COMMUNITY SERVICE ORDER—BREACH OF COMMUNITY SERVICE ORDER

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Customs prosecutions

Part four: Checking the credentials of experts is vital, says Mark Solon

Mark Hoyle & Cecily Crampin discuss multinational enforcement of new judgments on old debts

Part three: Experts and the CPR; Mark Solon goes back to basics

Forde v Birmingham City Council [2009] EWHC 12, [2009] All ER (D) 64 (Jan)

How have 10 years of the Civil Procedure Rules affected litigants in person? Peter Thompson QC reports

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Russell-Cooke—Susanna Heley

Legal director appointment bolsters public and regulatory team

Slater Heelis—five appointments

Firm appoints training partner and four new trainees

Bolt Burdon Kemp—Natasha Orr

Firm strengthens military claims team with senior associate hire

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NLJ this week: AI, liberty & the digital cage

Government plans for offender ‘restriction zones’ risk creating ‘digital cages’ that blur punishment with surveillance, warns Henrietta Ronson, partner at Corker Binning, in this week's issue of NLJ

NLJ this week: Leasehold reform in limbo

Louise Uphill, senior associate at Moore Barlow LLP, dissects the faltering rollout of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Enforcement reform gets real

Judgments are ‘worthless without enforcement’, says HHJ Karen Walden-Smith, senior circuit judge and chair of the Civil Justice Council’s enforcement working group. In this week's NLJ, she breaks down the CJC’s April 2025 report, which identified systemic flaws and proposed 39 reforms, from modernising procedures to protecting vulnerable debtors

NLJ this week: Standish reshapes family & inheritance claims

Writing in NLJ this week, Katherine Harding and Charlotte Finley of Penningtons Manches Cooper examine Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 26, the Supreme Court ruling that narrowed what counts as matrimonial property, and its potential impact upon claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975

NLJ this week: Clearing Christine Keeler’s name

In this week's NLJ, Dr Jon Robins, editor of The Justice Gap and lecturer at Brighton University, reports on a campaign to posthumously exonerate Christine Keeler. 60 years after her perjury conviction, Keeler’s son Seymour Platt has petitioned the king to exercise the royal prerogative of mercy, arguing she was a victim of violence and moral hypocrisy, not deceit. Supported by Felicity Gerry KC, the dossier brands the conviction 'the ultimate in slut-shaming'

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Russell-Cooke—Susanna Heley

Slater Heelis—five appointments

Bolt Burdon Kemp—Natasha Orr