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The Crime and Policing Bill is a monster—running to 317 pages and with 137 clauses! Helpfully, Michael Zander KC, NLJ columnist and Emeritus Professor, LSE, has summarised the key provisions. In this week’s NLJ, he presents part one of his guide.

Respect orders, cuckooing & more: Michael Zander KC reports on the provisions of the mammoth Crime & Policing Bill

A family court judge hearing care proceedings for a baby girl did not have the power to order an investigation and interim supervision order for three other children mentioned in the case, the Court of Appeal has held.

Neil Parpworth dissects the proposed new public order offences contained within the Crime & Policing Bill

The Procurement Act 2023, which comes into force on 24 February 2025, ushers in a new regime for the awarding of public contracts. In this week’s NLJ, Paul Henty, partner at Beale & Co, a specialist in public procurement law, looks at the Act’s provisions on debarment and exclusion.

Paul Henty explores debarment & exclusion under the Procurement Act 2023

Data is available for the first time on the policing of public processions & assemblies: what does it reveal? Neil Parpworth looks behind the figures

A rise in nuisance claims against water utilities and in silicosis claims are among the insurance predictions for 2025.

It’s time to improve the Office of the Public Guardian register, Ann Stanyer, partner at Wedlake Bell, writes in this week’s NLJ

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

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Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

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

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

Partner arrival boosts law firm’s growing real estate team

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths secures major tax hire with appointment of David Smith

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Good faith test is objective, rules Supreme Court

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

Fisher review urges tough action on digital fraud

Digital fraud is ‘baffling policymakers, investigators, prosecutors and enforcers’, leaving ‘a massive justice gap’, the author of a government-commissioned independent review has warned

Regulatory overseer must do better

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’

Hillsborough Law imposes duty of candour

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

Judging statistics show mixed bag on diversity progress

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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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

Freeths—David Smith