Legal News

A cyber-attack against CTS, a company which supplies IT to legal services companies, last week has left property sales in limbo since, with about 80 law firms affected

The House of Commons Justice Committee has launched a call for evidence on probate, following complaints of significant delays at the Probate Registry

The government intends to abolish the joint posts of Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner, which would be a big mistake, Michael Zander KC writes in this week’s NLJ

‘More than 80,000 children are presently caught up in Children Act 1989, Pt 2 proceedings, according to court statistics,’ writes David Burrows, NLJ columnist and family law solicitor-advocate

The Arbitration Act is 25 years old and in line for reform courtesy of proposals put forward by the Law Commission, but are they needed? Is anything missing? Do they go too far? 

In an NLJ expert witness double-bill this week, Mark Solon looks at the way experts work with instructing solicitors and what might compel them to forego their responsibilities to the court, while forensic accountant Rakesh Kapila tackles the financial aspects of fraudulent trading from an expert witness perspective

The heinous act of fly-tipping, scourge of landlords anywhere stray mattresses, broken sofas and unidentifiable lumber might appear, has caught the attention of the Sentencing Council

The High Court has handed down a landmark ruling on artificial intelligence (AI), which will allow key aspects of AI to be patented in the UK for the first time

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement ‘overlooked’ the legal services sector, solicitors said

Deliveroo riders cannot be classed as workers, the Supreme Court has held unanimously in a landmark judgment