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Lawyers have highlighted their concerns about the £1.3bn court reform programme, following a devastating report by the National Audit Office (NAO).

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced an increase to the interest rates for Courts Funds Office (CFO) special and basic accounts.

NLJ columnist Stephen Gold takes us back to the grimy days of the 1980s in this week’s 'Archive: Civil Way'.

Stephen Gold discovers a criminal poet, Clerkenwell solicitors cut up rough over PACE pay, & the NLJ gives the thumbs up to Spider Woman

To what extent has the Court of Appeal clarified the power of the magistrates’ court to reopen cases in order to rectify mistakes? Dr Charanjit Singh reports

Lawyers have welcomed plans to keep 24 Nightingale Courts open for another year, but warned more was needed to tackle the backlog of cases.

The HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is accepting evidence to assist in reviewing its progress and current position with regards to its ongoing court reform programme.

The Chair of the Law Commission (Commission), Nicholas Green, has confirmed the current extension of the timetable for finalising the 14th Programme of Law Reform and that the Commission will not establish a long-term programme of work covering the next five years at this time.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced that 24 of the Nightingale Courts, which were set up to boost capacity during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, will remain open in 2023 to allow more cases to be heard to reduce the backlog.

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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