Procedure & practice

Laws around confidentiality, enforceability and limitation periods in mediation agreements will be affected when the Brexit transition period ends this month, the Law Society has warned practitioners.

‘Show me someone who says they have never lied and I’ll show you a liar,’ writes John Gould, senior partner, Russell Cooke, in NLJ this week

Got a post-verdict…what next?: Cathál MacPartholán provides judicial review advice for junior crime counsel in the magistrates’ court

John Gould considers the characteristics which should mark outside conduct as professional misconduct

NLJ columnist DDJ Stephen Gold turns detective this week to uncover the going rates for silks, ex-judges and solicitors in the flourishing market of family law arbitration

Neil Parpworth reports on the latest stop and search figures and calls for an intelligence led approach

Family Arbs: the likely bill; Human Rights alive; Champers with water for tenants; Fit and proper on the pitch

The High Court has struck out a gigantic group action with more than 200,000 claimants against BHP Group over the 2015 Fundão dam catastrophe in Brazil, releasing iron ore mine tailings into the Doce River, which resulted in 19 deaths and destruction on a massive scale, including the obliteration of entire villages

Does judicial review strike the right balance between citizen and government, as the Independent Review of Administrative Law seeks to discover?

Twenty Essex barristers explore recent developments in the law on service―the means by which legal proceedings are commenced―and conclude that it’s time for a ‘wholescale review’, in this week’s NLJ