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Arbitration professionals prefer the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration rules

The Solicitors’ Charity, which helps practitioners with emotional, physical, financial and professional difficulties, received three times its usual number of requests for support last year

Judges are facing attacks, threats and abuse for doing their jobs, Baroness Carr, the Lady Chief Justice, has warned

There is a growing threat of forged evidence in civil litigation—now supercharged by generative AI—which Ian Gascoigne of LexisNexis explores in this week’s NLJ

Writing in NLJ this week, Ben Travers of Foot Anstey examines the unresolved legal tensions at the heart of AI-generated content, following the high-profile Getty v Stability AI case. Although the primary copyright claim was dropped, Travers argues the core issues remain: can AI be trained on copyrighted material without permission, and who owns the output?

Writing in NLJ this week, Elizabeth Rimmer of LawCare urges legal leaders to embed mental health into the core of organisational strategy

Could social media platforms be treated as ‘products’ under the Consumer Protection Act 1987? If so, they could face strict liability for harms caused by addictive design features and algorithmic manipulation, says Harry Lambert of Outer Temple Chambers, writing in NLJ this week

There is an urgent need to support England and Wales’s 14,000 volunteer magistrates, according to Tom Franklin of the Magistrates’ Association, writing in this week’s NLJ

Edward Blakeney and Ashpen Rajah of Falcon Chambers unpack the Court of Appeal’s decision in White v Alder [2025] EWCA Civ 392 in this week’s issue of NLJ. The ruling confirms that boundary demarcation agreements bind successors in title—regardless of whether they knew of the agreement when purchasing

Writing in NLJ this week, Aneurin Brewer of Red Lion Chambers offers a practical defence guide for small boat pilots charged under the Immigration Act 1971, as amended by the Nationality and Borders Act 2022