Legal News

Global firm Dentons could be forced to return to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) over its vetting of a client inherited from its merger with French firm Salans, following a Court of Appeal decision

Judges are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help them produce anonymised judgments, Sir Colin Birss, Chancellor of the High Court, has said

Solicitors would be required to enter into ‘mandatory ethical discussions’ each year, under Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) proposals

Family law chambers 4 Brick Court will move to join 42BR Barristers this summer to create the largest single-site chambers in England and Wales, with more than 150 barristers

Criminal silk Claire Davies KC, of Farringdon Chambers, has been elected vice chair of the Bar Council for next year

More fraud litigation is likely to emerge from the private credit market, market corrections due to overvaluation driven by artificial intelligence and the ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence, law firm Stewarts has predicted in a report, ‘Trends in fraud litigation 2026’, compiled with analytics platform Solomonic

Former joint head of chambers at One Garden Court, Lord Justice Stephen Cobb has succeeded Sir Andrew McFarlane as president of the Family Division

A wave of housing and procedural reforms is set to test the limits of tribunal capacity. In his latest Civil Way column for NLJ this week, Stephen Gold charts sweeping change as the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 begins biting

Plans to reduce jury trials risk missing the real problem in the criminal justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, David Wolchover of Ridgeway Chambers argues the crown court backlog is fuelled not by juries but weak cases slipping through a flawed ‘50%’ prosecution test

Emerging technologies may soon transform how courts determine truth in deeply personal disputes. In this week's NLJ, Madhavi Kabra of 1 Hare Court and Harry Lambert of Outer Temple Chambers explore how neurotechnology could reshape family law