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As it’s Christmas, and in lieu of frankincense and myrrh, NLJ offers a bumper two pages of Gold this week. Festive Civil Way topics include the bailiff dress code, PP arrears, DAPOs and the personal injury discount rate.

The value of the wills, trusts and probate market has risen 7% since last year to an estimated £2.81bn, according to the latest annual market report by IRN Legal Reports

Magic circle firms, in-house legal departments and litigation firms alike are embracing more flexible ways to manage surges of workloads, the success of Flex Legal has shown

Strangulation and homicide connected with the end of a relationship will be made statutory aggravating factors for murder, the Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood has confirmed.

Former financial services ombudsman Walter Merricks’ class action against Mastercard has entered unprecedented territory after the litigation funder opposed a potential settlement.

The Legal Ombudsman (LeO) has called for a ‘cultural shift’ in the way lawyers handle complaints.

UK law is flourishing, with the value of legal services exports rising nearly 40% in two years from £6.7bn in 2021 to £9.5bn in 2023, according to Law Society analysis of Office for National Statistics figures.

Former chair of the Criminal Bar Association Jo Sidhu KC, who led the 2022 criminal barrister strikes, has been found guilty of professional misconduct by the Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service panel.

Former solicitor Phil Shiner, previously principal of Public Interest Lawyers (PIL), has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment suspended for two years, by Judge Christopher Hehir at Southwark Crown Court.

A judicial academy has opened, with the aim of helping up to 500 legal executive lawyers become judges in the next five years.

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