Legal News

The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary has published a speech by the Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, in relation to driving system change and addressing injustice, delivered during the Ombudsman Association conference on 21 June 2023. 

The Law Commission has reported that its recommendations on espionage, set out in its ‘Protection of Official Data’ report, were implemented in the National Security Act 2023 (NSA 2023). 

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has published a blog on ‘People, progress and purpose in the criminal courts’, written by the Chief Executive of HMCTS, Nick Goodwin.

Acas has published its annual report for 2022 to 2023, revealing a greater demand for its dispute resolution services.

Following an urgent disclosure hearing, the Chair of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, Sir Wyn Williams, has announced that all future inquiry requests for evidence to the Post Office will carry a notice under section 21 of the Inquiries Act 2005 (IA 2005) which carries the threat of criminal sanction. 

Immigration visa fees and the immigration heath surcharge are to rise significantly, the government has confirmed.

Mentoring and coaching are effective, but external diversity pledges are less so when it comes to tearing down barriers to women’s progress at work, according to the latest research from the Next 100 Years project.

Which judges are tipped for the top jobs? In this week’s 'Insider', Professor Dominic Regan, of City Law School, praises Dame Sue Carr, the next Chief Justice, and reveals how her career could have taken an alternative albeit still high-profile trajectory!

Rules should be ‘simple and simply expressed’, according to the Courts Act 2003—yet Mr Justice Mostyn recently urged rule-makers to look again at the ‘Byzantine’ rules governing the release of documents to children proceedings.

The rise of legal consultants has been a game-changer for lawyers who want to work independently, manage their own caseload, and reduce the burdens of self-employment. In this week’s NLJ, Adrian Jaggard, CEO at AllC Group & Taylor Rose MW, looks ahead to the expansion of this model of working—research suggests one third of lawyers will work this way by 2026—and offers advice on how to prepare now for the changes to come.