Legal News

Claims against public sector bodies jumped in 2025, bucking an 11-year downward trend, research has shown

A government commitment to increase legal aid fees for criminal barristers has still not been implemented five months after being announced in December 2025

A quiet revolution has occurred in the CILEX section of the legal profession

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation

Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group

A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision

An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading

A pioneering cryptoasset recovery case has exposed an arguable failure by UK law enforcement to use powers already available under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Writing in NLJ this week, Ashley Fairbrother and Rhys Evans of Edmonds Marshall McMahon recount how their client, a US citizen duped in a devastating romance fraud, lost nearly $1m after being manipulated by a fake ‘Kensington-based diplomat’

Prosecutors will speed up preparations for charging hate crimes, under Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) guidance issued in response to the surge in antisemitic incidents