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Digital identity services and other reforms will be introduced to streamline searches and speed up conveyancing times, the government has said.

Imogen Dodds & Jamie Sutherland consider a Hong Kong case that gives clarity on limitation periods in constructive trust claims

The Law Commission is consulting on proposals to simplify, consolidate and modernise the law of compulsory purchase.

Property and other immovables in England and Wales are protected from the reach of foreign judicial decisions, the Supreme Court has confirmed.

What happens when a regulated mortgage contract is breached? A recent Supreme Court decision gives some welcome guidance, write Cecily Crampin & Caroline Shea KC

Conveyancing lawyers are scrambling to deal with a stamp duty hike, while lawyers’ representative bodies welcomed extra funds but highlighted the need for more investment in justice, following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget 2024

The Supreme Court recently handed down guidance on what to do when a regulated mortgage contract is breached

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has abolished non-doms and raised national insurance for medium and large employers in a dramatic budget that aims to raise an extra £40bn in taxes

The Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill was announced in July, but the full details have not yet been released. What can property lawyers look forward to?

What can be expected from the Draft Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill? Shabnam Ali-Khan sets out the knowns & unknowns

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Public Accounts Committee warn of ‘extinction’ risk for legal aid

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not done enough to protect the future sustainability of the legal aid market, MPs have warned

NLJ this week: The insider returns

Writing in NLJ this week, NLJ columnist Dominic Regan surveys a landscape marked by leapfrog appeals, costs skirmishes and notable retirements. With an appeal in Mazur due to be heard next month, Regan notes that uncertainties remain over who will intervene, and hopes for the involvement of the Lady Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls in deciding the all-important outcome

NLJ this week: Drawing the line on contempt

After the Southport murders and the misinformation that followed, contempt of court law has come under intense scrutiny. In this week's NLJ, Lawrence McNamara and Lauren Schaefer of the Law Commission unpack proposals aimed at restoring clarity without sacrificing fair trial rights

NLJ this week: Stop and search by the numbers

The latest Home Office figures confirm that stop and search remains both controversial and diminished. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort University analyses data showing historically low use of s 1 PACE powers, with drugs searches dominating what remains

NLJ this week: Looking back on the prorogation that never was

Boris Johnson’s 2019 attempt to shut down Parliament remains a constitutional cautionary tale. The move, framed as a routine exercise of the royal prerogative, was in truth an extraordinary effort to sideline Parliament at the height of the Brexit crisis. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC dissects how prorogation was wrongly assumed to be beyond judicial scrutiny, only for the Supreme Court to intervene unanimously

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Property

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly