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Employment law change was a key plank of prime minister Keir Starmer’s first king’s speech

The Finch ruling on ‘downstream’ emissions in environmental impact assessments is a seminal judgment by the Supreme Court

Group litigation, also known as class actions, is on the rise

Child relocation cases ‘remain difficult and finely balanced’, Victoria Rylatt and Sarah Hughes, Anthony Gold Solicitors, write in this week’s NLJ

What do lawyers hope for as the Keir Starmer government gets to work? In this week’s NLJ, Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC calls for more access to justice while Mary Young sets out a wish list from the legal profession

Judges are urged to keep it brief, former district judge Stephen Gold writes in this week’s Civil way

Lawyers and campaign groups have welcomed the inclusion of a ‘Hillsborough Law’ in the King’s Speech, and urged the government to set up an oversight body to ensure the recommendations of inquests and public inquiries are put into action

The criminal justice system must have a ‘culture’ where ‘it is acknowledged that mistakes can be made’, Chris Henley KC has said, in his independent review of the Andrew Malkinson case

Civil rights group JUSTICE has launched the latest edition of its Law for Lawmakers guide, due to land on MPs' desks this week

The Law Society has urged the new government to update the means test in line with inflation, bringing 5.5 million more people in scope

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