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One in ten crown court cases (6,073 cases) have been delayed for more than two years, the latest statistics reveal.

Commercial mediators have united to intervene in a case that could overturn Halsey.

The Law Society has drawn attention to the government’s lack of funding of the criminal justice system, following the publication of the criminal court quarterly statistics.

The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary (CTJ) has revised its principles on Transforming Summary Justice in the Magistrates’ Courts.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) have reported that one million pleas have now been made online in the criminal courts, since the implementation of the digital plea service in 2014, as part of the HMCTS Reform Programme.

Third-class service; Scissors special; Site owners fazed; Up the PI damages; New employment law; Snoozing with the FPRs

Sophie Houghton rounds up some key points for practitioners to consider ahead of the extension of fixed recoverable costs

Time to get to the point? Laura Rees addresses issues with the current guidance on raising points of dispute

It pays to be specific when setting out points of dispute, as Laura Rees, council member of the Association of Costs Lawyers, explains in this week’s NLJ

The Jackson reforms made the courts more cost-conscious and, consequently, stricter. In this week’s NLJ, Dr Chris Pamplin, editor of the UK Register of Expert Witnesses, asks whether a more balanced approach should be taken by courts which, ten years after Jackson, remain loathe to admit late expert evidence.

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Myers & Co—Jen Goodwin

Head of corporate promoted to director

Boies Schiller Flexner—Lindsay Reimschussel

Firm strengthens international arbitration team with key London hire

Corker Binning—Priya Dave

FCA contentious financial regulation lawyer joins the team as of counsel

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NLJ this week: Making Big Tech pay for digital addiction

Social media giants should face tortious liability for the psychological harms their platforms inflict, argues Harry Lambert of Outer Temple Chambers in this week’s NLJ

NLJ this week: Leaseholders stuck in limbo

The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024—once heralded as a breakthrough—has instead plunged leaseholders into confusion, warns Shabnam Ali-Khan of Russell-Cooke in this week’s NLJ

NLJ this week: When a trial period becomes a ‘reasonable adjustment’

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now confirmed that offering a disabled employee a trial period in an alternative role can itself be a 'reasonable adjustment' under the Equality Act 2010: in this week's NLJ, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve analyses the evolving case law

NLJ this week: Ignore covenants at your peril

Caroline Shea KC and Richard Miller of Falcon Chambers examine the growing judicial focus on 'cynical breach' in restrictive covenant cases, in this week's issue of NLJ

NLJ this week: Courts caught in a ‘hierarchy of privacy’

Ian Gascoigne of LexisNexis dissects the uneasy balance between open justice and confidentiality in England’s civil courts, in this week's NLJ. From public hearings to super-injunctions, he identifies five tiers of privacy—from fully open proceedings to entirely secret ones—showing how a patchwork of exceptions has evolved without clear design

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Procedure & practice

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Myers & Co—Jen Goodwin

Boies Schiller Flexner—Lindsay Reimschussel

Corker Binning—Priya Dave