Legal News

A man suspected of insider trading has escaped extradition due to the double criminality rule, in a landmark case that ‘effectively overturns’ a 20-year-old House of Lords precedent.

The Law Society has joined a chorus of protest against plans to cut funding for level 7 apprenticeships.

The Law Society has pushed back against regulators’ plans to stop solicitors holding client money.

Cross-border deals are becoming more uncertain, costly and challenging for senior in-house counsel at major multinationals.

The Arbitration Bill has passed all parliamentary stages without amendment and is currently awaiting royal assent. 

Average wait times for probate are now just over four weeks, HM Courts and Tribunals Service data published this week shows. 

Salary has increased in importance for junior lawyers, with 70% citing it as a key motivation to stay in their current role, according to the Future Lawyers Report 2025, published this month. This compares to 40% who said the same last year, and 21% the year before

Is our criminal appeals system fit for purpose? Jon Robins, NLJ columnist, writes that he recently attended an ‘astonishing press conference’ on the Lucy Letby case, in which the international panel of medical experts, working pro bono, ‘did not equivocate.

Welcome to the brave new world of neuropolitics! In this week’s NLJ, Harry Lambert, Outer Temple Chambers, continues his fascinating series on the fast-emerging area of neurorights with a look at free will, our sense of self, individual agency and freedom of thought.

In a small road accident claim, do we really need to know the full details of the claimant’s childhood medical history? ‘In modest personal injury claims, routine, unnecessary and inappropriate disclosure of the entirety of claimants’ medical records is not acceptable,’ Charles Davey, a barrister with The Barrister Group, writes in this week’s NLJ.