Legal News

Businesses that suffered losses during the pandemic have won a landmark COVID-19 business interruption test case against insurers.

The Home Office has announced plans to modernise the identification doctrine, which holds companies criminally liable for offences.

‘Unbundling’ could make solicitors affordable, Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) research has shown.

MPs have voted 354-7 to back the Privileges Committee’s final report that former prime minister Boris Johnson committed five contempts of parliament.

Zoe Holland, chief commercial officer at Fletchers Group, has been awarded an MBE in the king’s birthday honours for her services to charity. 

The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) is launching a selection exercise in July 2023 to recruit circuit judges. 

Prince Harry has been making Royal legal history recently by appearing in court, although some of his legal action has encountered obstacles. In this week’s NLJ, writer Nicholas Dobson looks into the decision to refuse judicial review of the Duke of Sussex’s security provisions.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Windrush, the generation of people who responded to the government’s invitation to come from the Caribbean to post-war Britain between 1948 and 1971. In this week’s NLJ, Pauline Campbell pays tribute to some of the many people who came to the UK, pre-Windrush and as part of the Windrush Generation.

Fortnite fans take note. Sony has made a ground-breaking patent application to make non-fungible tokens (NFTs) transferable between games and consoles. Shoosmiths partners Prakash Kerai and Joe Stephenson explore this move by Sony and explain why it is potentially revolutionary for the gaming industry, in this week’s NLJ.

How are the courts applying the law in relation to the issue of ‘parental alienation’? Luke Scarratt, senior associate at Payne Hicks Beach, investigates how the law is being applied and what tools the courts have at their disposal.