Legal News

Law firm gunnercooke has become the first major UK law firm to officially accept payment in cryptoassets such as Ethereum (Ether) and Bitcoin

Director of Public Prosecutions Max Hill QC has vowed to do better on Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO), following concerns about low numbers of convictions

The Court of Appeal has warned judges to ‘remain above the fray and neutral’ where cases involve litigants in person

An extra 4,000 prison places are to be created, spread across 16 prisons, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said last week

The House of Lords Constitution Committee has launched an inquiry into the roles of the Lord Chancellor and the Law Officers, exploring how they currently operate, how they have evolved since the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and whether any changes are necessary

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has published a sectoral analysis on the cyber security industry within the UK

The racist abuse meted out to talented cricketer Azeem Rafiq hit the headlines this year, and his evidence to a parliamentary committee portrayed ‘a sport in which a culture of humiliation, intimidation and racism, generally passed off by its proponents and practitioners as workplace banter, had been endemic for so many years that it ran through establishments such as Yorkshire County Cricket Club (Yorkshire) like the writing on a stick of Blackpool rock’, as Alastair Gillespie, partner at Horwich Farrelly, writes in this week’s NLJ

Is it murder on the statute book this week or a reprieve for certain property owners, in former District Judge Stephen Gold’s Civil way column?

ESG (environmental, social and governance) has steadily risen in prominence and is now a hot topic for businesses and law firms, Clare Hughes-Williams and Sarah Crowther, both partners at DAC Beachcroft, write in this week’s NLJ

The popular London International Disputes Week (LIDW) returns 9-13 May with a broad programme of events around the theme of ‘Dispute resolution: global, sustainable, ethical?’