Legal News

The Nuremberg trials laid the groundwork for personal international criminal liability, and the process by which Vladimir Putin may one day be held responsible. In this week’s NLJ, Simon Parsons, associate lecturer at Bath Spa University, looks at the lack of individual liability for international crime before 1945.

Bitcoin hit a watershed mark of 190m users last year—in the UK alone over 4m adults own cryptocurrency. For private client practitioners in this developing online world, managing digital assets is a complex area that requires careful consideration and sensitivity

Clients want their law firms to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) tools sooner than the latter think, a LexisNexis report has found

Banks do not owe a Quincecare duty to individual customers, the Supreme Court has held unanimously in Barclays Bank UK v Philipp [2023] UKSC 25

Guidelines for sentencing people convicted of perverting the course of justice and witness intimidation offences have been published for the first time

Non-lawyer Nick Ephgrave, a former assistant commissioner of the Met Police (2019-2022) and chief constable for Surrey police (2015-2019), has been appointed as the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), replacing Lisa Osofsky

The Cabinet Office failed to convince the High Court that Covid-19 Inquiry chair Dame Hallett’s request for WhatsApp messages and notebooks of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson was ultra vires and irrational

English and Welsh solicitors can now register to practise UK and public international law in Luxembourg, a legal services market worth an estimated £300m per year to UK lawyers

A new edition of the Senior Court Costs Office (SCCO) Guide 2023 has been released, with a plethora of updates and additions

The Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) has published the minutes of its meeting of 9 June 2023