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Working pro bono benefits everyone―client, lawyer, firm and wider community. In a special NLJ pro bono double-bill this week, we highlight the advantages of this legal tradition

The police registration scheme, which required certain visa holders to register with the police, has been suspended with immediate effect

Fresh discussions have begun on the future of SIF, the Solicitors Indemnity Fund, which protects consumers for negligence claims brought more than six years after a firm has closed

The government has announced that the Advocate General for Scotland has submitted the written case to the Supreme Court in case number 2022/0098, in which the Lord Advocate had made a reference under paragraph 34, schedule 6 of the Scotland Act 1998 (SA 1998)

Some 32 law firms including Magic Circle firm Linklaters have signed up to a major new diversity data collection exercise

Solicitors have been warned to exercise ‘extreme caution’, following the launch of the Register of Overseas Entities (ROE) this week

Nicholas Dobson looks at a controversial fee uplift at the much-loved Hampstead swimming ponds, in this week’s NLJ

Falcon Chambers’ Fern Schofield and Anthony Tanney look at what turned into a hollow victory in the Court of Appeal, in this week’s NLJ

The High Court has found the council liable for the deaths of four Grenfell Tower residents in the 14 June 2017 fire, in which 72 people died, and for the effects of the fire on another five people

The 2022 edition of the Chancery Guide is now in force and available to view

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