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Lawyers have welcomed a commitment to update the guideline hourly rates (GHR), review the costs provisions of the Solicitors Act 1974 and uprate the fixed recoverable costs cap

One third of in-house legal teams aim to use artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce costs, research has found

The routine redaction of names of civil servants below the senior ranks in documents disclosed to court is not justified, the High Court has held

Hallucinations or amplification of existing bias within data are among the risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI), the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has warned

The Justice Committee has launched an inquiry into the Coroner Service to examine changes made since 2021, when the committee last looked at coronial capacity

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has issued its first fixed penalties

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

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