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Stronger checks on company names are being carried out from this week, as the first measures under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023) come into force

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are used to cover up illegal conduct and promote imbalances of power, the Legal Services Board (LSB) has said

The government has confirmed it will introduce a law to restore the position that existed before the Supreme Court’s PACCAR ruling last year on litigation funding

Peers inflicted five defeats on the government’s controversial Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill on its first day in the Lords

The senior judiciary has launched a protocol on information sharing between family and criminal agencies and jurisdictions

Judges are to hear the oldest rape cases first, with the aim of completing all cases started in the Crown Court more than two years ago within the next five months

David Blunkett, architect of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences, has now joined a campaign to free IPP prisoner Thomas White, who remains in prison 12 years after receiving a two-year minimum sentence for stealing a mobile phone

The Criminal Justice Bill expands police powers against citizens in some worrying ways, according to Neil Parpworth of Leicester De Montfort Law School, in this week’s NLJ

The Post Office Horizon scandal has led to calls for reform of the private prosecution system, but this would be a ‘tragic irony’, Kate McMahon, partner at Edmonds Marshall McMahon, writes in this week’s NLJ

How do you hold oil companies to account? In this week’s NLJ, Dr Angus Nurse sets out the legal routes for remedying corporate environmental harm

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