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There will be many ‘forgotten victims’ of the COVID-19 pandemic in need of compensation, Doughty Street Chambers’ barristers have said

Brighton solicitor Sam Elsby, a specialist in head injury cases, accidents abroad and workplace accidents, has taken over the reins as president of the Association of Personal injury Lawyers (Apil)

A rugby spectator who exaggerated his injuries has had 15% knocked off his recoverable costs

Reforms to whiplash claims are to be delayed for a third time, to April 2021, due to COVID-19, the Lord Chancellor has confirmed

Claimant and defendant personal injury lawyers have collaborated to produce a set standard of practice for cases during the COVID-19 crisis

Richard Scorer & Kim Harrison provide an update on the work of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse & consider its future role

Judges have told of their fears road traffic accident (RTA) claims will cause a ‘logjam’ and district judges will be ‘overwhelmed’ when personal injury reforms are introduced later in the year, writes NLJ columnist Dominic Regan

Judges and personal injury lawyers have criticised the lack of provision for alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in the whiplash reforms, now delayed until 1 August

Dominic Regan hopes the proposed changes to injury litigation will be abandoned, not just postponed, before more damage is done

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NLJ Career Profile: Daniel Burbeary, Michelman Robinson

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Pilot to protect rape victims from scrutiny

Operation Soteria, a 2021 initiative which protected rape victims from excessive scrutiny during police investigations, is being expanded into the courtroom, the Ministry of Justice has said

Justice speeds up, according to latest statistics

Civil and judicial review claims are being processed faster than this time last year despite the number of judicial reviews increasing by 56% to 1,100 applications, the latest civil justice statistics quarterly, published this week, have shown

Super-regulator's 'light touch' criticised

The collapse of law firms Axiom Ince and SSB Group demonstrate the need for the Legal Services Board (LSB) to strengthen its oversight of frontline regulators, Law Society president Mark Evans said this week

NLJ this week: Appeal court reins in ‘wrong defendant’ switcheroo

The Court of Appeal has slammed the brakes on claimants trying to swap defendants after limitation has expired. In Adcamp LLP v Office Properties and BDB Pitmans v Lee [2026] EWCA Civ 50, it overturned High Court rulings that had allowed substitutions under s 35(6)(b) of the Limitation Act 1980, reports Sarah Crowther of DAC Beachcroft in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Deepfakes demand data law muscle

As AI-generated ‘deepfake’ images proliferate, the law may already have the tools to respond. In NLJ this week, Jon Belcher of Excello Law argues that such images amount to personal data processing under UK GDPR

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Personal injury

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Daniel Burbeary, Michelman Robinson

Sidley—Jeremy Trinder

Joelson—Jennifer Mansoor