Legal News

Three family judges who made historic decisions concerning Sara Sharif have been named.

The family justice Pathfinder courts pilot will expand into Mid and West Wales next month and West Yorkshire in June, ministers have announced.

Nine lawyers have been appointed King’s Counsel honoris causa, including legal scholar Professor Adrian Zuckerman of Oxford University, editor-in-chief of the Civil Justice Quarterly and a consultant editor of Halsbury’s Laws of England. 

Your vote is needed! NLJ readers are invited to help choose the winner of the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 Legal Personality of the Year.

The Family Justice Council (FJC) has published guidance on neurodiversity for legal practitioners.

The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, which repeals both the controversial Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 and Illegal Migration Act 2023, has been introduced in Parliament. 

The deadline for submissions to the Civil Justice Council’s (CJC) consultation on litigation funding, including third party funding, has been extended by one month

A father’s attempt to use habeas corpus to have his children returned from foster care has been dismissed at the Supreme Court

Retired judge Dr Victoria McCloud shares her thoughts regarding judicial ‘leadership’, social media guidance and the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office, in this week’s NLJ.

Faced with an unwieldy and ever-rising backlog of cases at the Crown Court, the Ministry of Justice is considering introducing an ‘intermediate tier’ and has put Sir Brian Leveson in charge of a review. In this week’s NLJ, Charles Kuhn, partner at Clyde & Co, examines the possibilities, the potential savings and the impact on justice.