Procedure & practice

Dawn raids by competition authorities are back, and becoming increasingly common. So, how should you prepare your client in case it happens to them?

What are the potential implications of the Tesco ‘retained pay’ case, and, post-election, how might a potential Labour government overhaul the law surrounding fire and rehire?

More legal duties are set to be imposed on financial institutions in 2024. In this week’s NLJ, Michael Brown, partner, and Harriet Campbell, senior knowledge lawyer, Penningtons Manches Cooper, provide an overview of the new duties, including the Consumer Duty and the reimbursement rules, and consider the future of financial disputes

The Bar Council has called for a ‘whole system review’ of criminal justice through a Royal Commission, in written evidence to the Public Accounts Committee’s inquiry into the backlog in the criminal courts

Controversial ‘enhanced’ searches at Stratford Magistrates’ Court have been dropped, following complaints about heavy-handed security

In a recent case, the court used its case management powers to order a split trial. Daniel Lightman KC elaborates

The UK’s exit from the Energy Charter Treaty is the latest development in the much-troubled project to modernise the treaty, say Álvaro Nistal & Tim Smyth

Further incentives, effective from 31 May, have been put in place to attract qualified legal representatives (QLRs), former district judge Stephen Gold reports in this week’s NLJ ‘Civil way’ column

A judge in a recent case took an unusual approach to a s 994 unfair prejudice petition. In this week’s NLJ, Daniel Lightman KC, of Serle Court, reviews the case, in which the court used its case management powers to order a split trial, the first part determining whether the registers of members should be rectified and whether the petition was well founded