Legal News

There is an urgent need for clarity regarding the UK’s laws on the use of copyrighted material protection by artificial intelligence (AI) technology, writes Emma Kennaugh-Gallacher, senior professional support lawyer at Mewburn Ellis, in this week’s NLJ.

Horses for courses, a lid for every pot and costs lawyers for costs (regulated, of course). Otherwise, it could all turn into a shambles. In this week’s NLJ, Jack Ridgway, chair of the Association of Costs Lawyers and a senior associate costs lawyer at Bolt Burdon Kemp, highlights the perils of using an unregulated costs draftsman.

How will you spend your £4 Mastercard pay-out? Professor Dominic Regan, NLJ columnist, AKA 'The Insider', writes that the result of the collective action once put at £10bn and later settled for £200m renders it a ‘pointless exercise’. 

The personal injury discount rate was increased to 0.5% in January, based for the first time on a detailed report by an expert panel. In this week’s NLJ, Julian Chamberlayne wonders whether the decision-making is vulnerable to challenge by judicial review, and uncovers a multitude of weak spots. 

An application on behalf of former nurse Lucy Letby has been received by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which reviews suspected miscarriages of justice.

Immunity laws designed to protect embassies are incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the Court of Appeal has confirmed.

Three family judges who made historic decisions concerning Sara Sharif have been named.

The family justice Pathfinder courts pilot will expand into Mid and West Wales next month and West Yorkshire in June, ministers have announced.

Nine lawyers have been appointed King’s Counsel honoris causa, including legal scholar Professor Adrian Zuckerman of Oxford University, editor-in-chief of the Civil Justice Quarterly and a consultant editor of Halsbury’s Laws of England. 

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