Legal News

The Crown Court backlog has increased again, reaching an all-time high of 66,547 outstanding cases

Family law cases can abruptly change direction upon the emergence of significant issues in the fact finding hearing. In this week’s NLJ, Sarah Hughes, partner, and Victoria Rylatt, senior associate solicitor, Anthony Gold Solicitors report on recent caselaw where the fact finding hearing has had ‘significant repercussions for the rest of the proceedings’

Tony Allen, solicitor, mediator and senior consultant to CEDR, provides in-depth commentary on Churchill, which overturned Halsey, in this week’s NLJ

Inflation! Everything’s going up including planning fees in England, with a 35% increase for major applications, NLJ columnist and former District Judge Stephen Gold writes in this week’s Civil way

Robot motors amok on the motorway? Or vehicles safely under control? Which is the future? Actually, the future is here! Lucy McCormick, barrister at Henderson Chambers, looks at the Automated Vehicles Bill, which recently had its Second Reading, in this week’s NLJ

A flurry of legal developments has struck at the very end of 2023, expertly dissected this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan, of City Law School, aka The Insider

A lawyer has launched an app, MyGoodbyes, to help people prepare plans for the end of their life, with users given access to a secure online vault for their wills, documents, powers of attorney and funeral arrangements

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has said it anticipates a significant call on resources in the next financial year

The UK’s legal services sector generated £43.7bn in 2023 (up 5.6% on the previous year), according to research by industry lobby group TheCityUK