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When are “negotiations” without prejudice? Hamish Lal reports

R (on the application of Heather Moor & Edgecomb Ltd) v Financial Ombudsman Service [2008] EWCA Civ 642, [2008] All ER (D) 126 (Jun)

Should courts take into account events which take place after the notional date of trial in a claim for damages for professional negligence? James Counsell reports

Jennifer James is the Insider. PS The Insider has returned safely and will tell all about the Land of the Rising Sun next time!

David Greene sets the record straight about the state of litigation in the capital

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Michael Zander QC reflects on the negative response to Lord Carter's sentencing proposals

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Leadership strengthened across core practice areas with nine new partners

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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

Taylor Rose—nine promotions

Fieldfisher—Rebecca Maxwell

Ward Hadaway—14 trainee solicitors