Legal News

A public inquiry into abuses at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre has called for a time limit of 28 days on immigration detention

The average professional indemnity insurance (PII) premium is equivalent to 5% of a law firm’s annual turnover—but small firms pay more

Lawyers have spoken out about government plans to bring clinical negligence cases valued between £1,500 and £25,000 into the fixed recoverable costs (FRC) regime from April 2024

DNA testing is now being used to identify cousins as well as other complex relationships such as grandparent, uncle or aunt and sibling, AlphaBioLabs reports

LawCare, the legal mental health and wellbeing charity, is highlighting the danger of psychosocial risks (risks to mental health at work) ahead of World Mental Health Day on 10 October

Kingsley Napley senior partner Stephen Parkinson has been selected as the next Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the Attorney General has confirmed

How will artificial intelligence (AI) affect litigation and disputes? Could it improve access to justice? Bring costs down? To what extent and in what areas will it speed the preparation process up? In this week’s NLJ, Eimear McCann, commercial director at TrialView, looks at the range of uses of AI in disputes and considers how this might develop in future.

The horrifying case of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, is not a one-off or an aberration, NLJ columnist Jon Robins writes in his column this week. Instead, it’s part of a wider systemic problem.

Fixed recoverable costs (FRC) is the issue du jour, with the new regime due to begin on 1 October. In this week’s NLJ, Liam Tolen, senior associate at Ashfords, looks at FRC from an in-house perspective. What do general counsel and in-house legal teams need to know, are there any benefits, how will it affect settlements, and how can they prepare?

The decade-long existence of ‘reckless falsity’ in the context of contempt of court has been rejected by the Court of Appeal. In this week’s NLJ, Sam Thomas, Manon Huckle, Oliver Cooke & Richard Marshall discuss the case of Norman and another v Adler and another and its implications for future contempt cases.