Legal services

The rise of litigants in person: Clare Hughes-Williams sets out how to respond to this growing challenge

Improvements to courts, tribunals and the wider justice system in the north are being held back by a lack of national and local collaboration, according to thinktank JUSTICE North

Scissors at the ready! Dominic Regan delivers a cut out & keep guide to Mazur

Litigators digesting Mazur are being urged to tighten oversight and compliance. In his latest 'Insider' column for NLJ this week, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School provides a cut out and keep guide to the ruling’s core test: whether an unauthorised individual is ‘in truth acting on behalf of the authorised individual’

Leor Franks sets out a system for assessing business development investments, involving a test with four key elements

Global firm Dentons could be forced to return to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) over its vetting of a client inherited from its merger with French firm Salans, following a Court of Appeal decision

A ‘sophisticated suspected fraud’ may have taken place at PM Law involving the improper removal and misuse of about £39.5m of client funds, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has confirmed

Law firms enjoyed rapid growth in 2025, according to a Financial Benchmarking Survey, published by the Law Society last week

The Legal Services Board (LSB) aims to reduce burdens on well-performing regulators and will pursue an intelligence-led, risk-based and targeted approach to oversight, its business plan for 2026–27, published this week, reveals

Solicitors practising litigation have been issued with a Law Society practice note following the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Mazur