Legal News

The government tabled amendments last week to the Renters (Reform) Bill to ban private landlords from having ‘no DSS’ and ‘no children’ policies

Clients with ultra short hair can now be tested for alcohol, forensic science laboratory AlphaBiolabs, which is running a special 15% off offer until the end of the year, has said

The government has missed an opportunity to establish a legal definition of honour-based abuse, Imran Khodabocus, director, the Family Law Company, writes in this week’s NLJ. A recommendation that this be done was made by the Women and Equalities Committee but rejected by the government in September

Roger Smith reports back from a Legal Services Consumer Panel conference on unmet legal need, in this week’s NLJ

The latest twists and turns to the law on buildings insurance, bankruptcy orders and divorce pilots come under the scrutiny of former District Judge Stephen Gold in this week’s Civil way

A variety of measures are available to assist in the treatment of vulnerable witnesses and parties in the coronial jurisdiction, Tim Suter, partner, Fieldfisher, and Sophie Cartwright KC, Deans Court Chambers, write in this week’s NLJ. Suter and Cartwright suggest the coronial jurisdiction consider best practice from the civil, family and criminal jurisdiction

The decision by the government to make the Lucy Letby Inquiry non-statutory and then to change its mind and make the inquiry statutory is the subject of Red Lion Chambers barristers Sailesh Mehta’s and Tom Davies’s article in this week’s NLJ

A limited shelf-life could be the fate of some aspects of the Supreme Court judgment on holiday pay in Chief Constable of Police in Northern Ireland v Agnew

The Bar Council has raised alarm over Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to introduce ‘emergency’ legislation designating Rwanda ‘safe’ after the Supreme Court ruled the government’s Rwanda policy unlawful

Asylum seekers cannot be sent to Rwanda for processing, the Supreme Court has held in a unanimous judgment