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Michael Zander KC on Trump v United States
When are witnesses in public inquiries compelled to participate? Nick Wrightson explores this often-delicate issue
The worlds of law and politics collide where public inquiries take place

Planning and employment law reform took top billing in the King’s Speech, among an ambitious agenda of more than 35 bills

The government has lifted a ‘de facto ban’ on onshore windfarms in England, with immediate effect, as part of an overhaul of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)

John Gould on why serious work is required to re-set the collective moral compass of those in Government & Parliament

Several Conservatives came a cropper when they placed their bets on the date of the 2024 general election

Nicholas Dobson relates an unusual attempt to avoid council tax liability
Removing legal protections for company bosses won’t clean up our waterways, argues Tom McNeill

Raw sewage pollution in our rivers and seas has rightly caused outrage across the country. Labour’s plans to fix this include tough new powers to make law-breaking water bosses face criminal charges—but how will this work exactly?

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Homegrown hat-trick: Osbornes Law promotes three former trainees to partner

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

Partner arrival boosts law firm’s growing real estate team

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths secures major tax hire with appointment of David Smith

NEWS
The Supreme Court has clarified the scope of a director’s duty, in a case where a chairman’s good intentions went awry due to the pandemic
Digital fraud is ‘baffling policymakers, investigators, prosecutors and enforcers’, leaving ‘a massive justice gap’, the author of a government-commissioned independent review has warned
Richard Lloyd’s independent review of the Legal Services Board (LSB) has delivered a devastating verdict, accusing the super-regulator of having ‘lost its way in recent years’
The House of Commons has passed the Hillsborough Law, in a historic achievement for campaigners, survivors and families of those who died in the 1989 stadium collapse
Judicial statistics show a steady rise in the number of female judges and Asian and mixed ethnicity judges in the past ten years—however, progress in terms of representation has stalled for both Black lawyers and for solicitors
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