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A shift towards efficiency or unintended complexity? Premium Content
Iris Karaman & Kate Chan discuss the practical impact of the EU’s proposed ‘Omnibus’ package
04 April 2025 / Kate Chan / Iris Karaman
NLJ this week: All aboard the EU sustainability ‘Omnibus’
The European Commission’s proposed ‘Omnibus’ package sets out an array of proposed amendments to simplify corporate sustainability requirements and reduce paperwork. In this week’s NLJ, Iris Karaman, senior associate, and Kate Chan, associate, at Pillsbury Law, look at the ‘Omnibus’ content and assess its practical implications for business.
04 April 2025
Court modernisation programme ends after nine years
The nine-year reform programme to modernise and digitalise the courts has ended.
02 April 2025
Civil way: 28 March 2025 Premium Content
Hold tightly in family; LPA is 100; suing too high; hello Business Ombudsman; new consumer law; employment awards up.
28 March 2025 / Stephen Gold
1 July 2025: Hague Judgments Day Premium Content
If widely ratified, Hague 2019 will enhance global access to justice, writes Natalie Todd
28 March 2025 / Natalie Todd
NLJ this week: Preparing for Hague 2019
There are only three months left before Hague 2019 takes effect on 1 July. In this week’s NLJ, Natalie Todd, partner at Cooke, Young & Keidan, looks ahead to the arrival of this important Convention which facilitates the effective international enforcement of foreign judgments in civil and commercial matters.
28 March 2025
Disclosure recommendations for data-heavy cases
An ‘intensive disclosure regime’ should be put in place to help judges manage data-heavy cases, according to the chair of the Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences, Jonathan Fisher KC.
26 March 2025
ESG & failure to prevent fraud Premium Content
In the era of greenwashing, Richard Reichman examines new guidance that highlights the overlap between fraud & ESG risks
21 March 2025 / Richard Reichman
NLJ this week: Not enough judges, too many judgments?
A large number of civil, family and tribunal fees are about to go up (and a couple of dozen will go down). In this week’s NLJ, former district judge Stephen Gold crunches the numbers ahead of 1 April. As Gold writes, ‘issue before then and clients will be much impressed’.
14 March 2025
Civil way: 14 March 2025 Premium Content
Sue soon; CFO not so special; party wars at the TCC; latest CPR PD update; neighbourly land grabs
14 March 2025 / Stephen Gold
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NLJ this week: How sure is ‘sure’ enough?
Criminal juries may be convicting—or acquitting—on a misunderstanding. Writing in NLJ this week Paul McKeown, Adrian Keane and Sally Stares of The City Law School and LSE report troubling survey findings on the meaning of ‘sure’
NLJ this week: A deferred prosecution reprieve
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has narrowly preserved a key weapon in its anti-corruption arsenal. In this week's NLJ, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers examines Guralp Systems Ltd v SFO, in which the High Court ruled that a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) remained in force despite the company’s failure to disgorge £2m by the stated deadline
NLJ this week: Mandelson, Epstein & the court of popular opinion
As the drip-feed of Epstein disclosures fuels ‘collateral damage’, the rush to cry misconduct in public office may be premature. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke of Hill Dickinson warns that the offence is no catch-all for political embarrassment. It demands a ‘grave departure’ from proper standards, an ‘abuse of the public’s trust’ and conduct ‘sufficiently serious to warrant criminal punishment’
NLJ this week: Volunteers, promotions & perilous appeals
Employment law is shifting at the margins. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ this week, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School examines a Court of Appeal ruling confirming that volunteers are not a special legal species and may qualify as ‘workers’
NLJ this week: When saying no to mediation pays
Refusing ADR is risky—but not always fatal. Writing in NLJ this week, Masood Ahmed and Sanjay Dave Singh of the University of Leicester analyse Assensus Ltd v Wirsol Energy Ltd: despite repeated invitations to mediate, the defendant stood firm, made a £100,000 Part 36 offer and was ultimately ‘wholly vindicated’ at trial
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