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There seems to have been a spate of judgment embargo breaches since Sir Geoffrey Vos’s warning to forgetful, clumsy or errant lawyers last year that those who breach ought to expect contempt proceedings to follow.

‘Kompromat, often used in Russia to keep politicians and businesspeople in line, is now frequently being submitted as evidence in the courts of England and Wales,’ writes Natalie Todd, partner at Cooke Young & Keidan, in this week’s NLJ.

AlphaBiolabs provides hair drugs tests and nail drug tests for legal proceedings, with traces of drugs remaining detectable in a person’s hair and nails for 12 months after consumption. But which is best when, and what are the differences between the two?

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has proposed minor changes to the SRA Standards and Regulations following its consultation that ran from 14 December 2022–8 March 2023.

The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, Lord Christopher Bellamy KC, have signed into effect the 154th Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules.

The government has committed itself to ratifying the Singapore Convention on Mediation, in a move welcomed by the legal profession

Despite the current dip in professional services as a whole, the legal sector is predicted to buck the trend and grow by 6% this year.

Convictions for child cruelty offences will lead to tougher punishments under revised sentencing guidelines.

The government has extended legal aid in private and public family law cases, and changed the evidential requirements for domestic abuse.

The chairman of the Manchester Arena inquiry has called for legislative change to ensure the participation of witnesses.

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