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Prince Harry, Baroness Doreen Lawrence and five others have lost their case against the publisher of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, in Various Claimants v Associated Newspapers [2026] EWHC 1637 (KB)

The Duke of Sussex and his co-claimants face a ‘potentially eye-watering legal bill’ of more than £50m, according to former costs judge at the Royal Courts of Justice, Colin Campbell

AI has transformed the nature of cyber threats & also widened their audience: Jess Chan weighs up systems failures & erosion of trust

Dominic Regan reports back from a front row seat at the Mazur appeal

After the Southport murders and the misinformation that followed, contempt of court law has come under intense scrutiny. In this week's NLJ, Lawrence McNamara and Lauren Schaefer of the Law Commission unpack proposals aimed at restoring clarity without sacrificing fair trial rights

What can be said when criminal proceedings are active? Lawrence McNamara & Lauren Schaefer set out the Law Commission’s recommendations on contempt of court

Reforms to open justice mean parties will need to be proactive, writes Antonia Glover

Antonia Glover of Quinn Emanuel outlines sweeping transparency reforms following the work of the Transparency and Open Justice Board in this week's NLJ

Journalists want legal commentators who are punchy, pithy & don’t sit on the fence, write Kerry Jack & Justin Penrose

In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains