Legal News

Campaigning charity Transform Justice has called for ‘radical reform’ of the Single Justice Procedure (SJP), the streamlined process for minor offences

Unused pension funds will be subject to inheritance tax from 6 April 2027, HM Revenue and Customs confirmed this week

Trainee solicitors should be paid a minimum of £24,916 (up from £24,320) outside of London, or £28,090 (up from £27,418) if working in London for qualifying work experience (QWE) or during their training contract, the Law Society has recommended

To mark 10 years of digital conveyancing innovation, InfoTrack has launched Enquiries—a new solution designed to help law firms get this critical part of the transaction off to the best possible start

MPs have called for an ‘urgent and comprehensive, root-and-branch’ review’ of the ‘dysfunctional’ county court system, to be launched by next spring at the latest

Cases concerning the pollution of Manchester Ship Canal and a father’s attempt to use the writ of habeas corpus to challenge a care order were among 43 Supreme Court judgments handed down last year

LexisNexis, working with law firms in the UK, has created a secure, accurately-sourced, personalised artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for lawyers

Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Chris Pamplin, editor of the UK Register of Expert Witnesses, examines the thorny issue of expert witness fees in legally aided cases. The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) enforces strict caps, only exceeded in ‘exceptional circumstances’. This often leaves local authorities footing the bill when experts charge more than the cap

Overlooked wartime agricultural records can resolve modern land access disputes: Professor John Martin of the Museum of English Rural Life sheds light on this valuable but little used resource in this week's NLJ

Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Davey of The Barrister Group examines the Court of Appeal’s ruling in Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police v Woodcock, where police were found not liable for failing to warn a domestic abuse victim of an imminent attack