Legal News

A former Ofsted inspector sacked for brushing rain from a child’s head was unfairly dismissed, the Court of Appeal has held in a unanimous ruling

One in three criminal barristers are actively seeking to leave the Bar, according to Criminal Bar Association (CBA) research

A conditional fee agreement (CFA) can have retrospective effect even though this is not spelled out, the Court of Appeal has held

Sir Geoffrey Vos, the Master of the Rolls has assigned the job of resolving legal uncertainties around digital assets and artificial intelligence (AI) liability to an expert group of judges, lawyers and regulators

A leading expert’s five decades of expertise in industrial and discrimination law was among the winners at the 2025 LexisNexis Legal Awards

Ten years from now law firms will place more value on human traits such as empathy and other soft skills, according to 78% of heads of legal at global companies

What happens where an employer thinks an employee has resigned but they haven’t? This is one of a trio of cases covered in this week’s NLJ employment law brief by Ian Smith, barrister, emeritus professor of employment law at the Norwich Law School, UEA.

Johnson v FirstRand sent ‘shockwaves through the financial services industry’, write Eddie Flanagan, partner and specialist in asset and debt recovery, and Harpreet Sandhu, Chartered Legal Executive at Shakespeare Martineau, in this week’s NLJ. They discuss the case and its astonishing implications. For example, Santander UK revealed in November that it has set aside £295m for potential compensation.

Lawyers have been instructed to pursue legal action to secure a pardon for Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK

A large number of civil, family and tribunal fees are about to go up (and a couple of dozen will go down). In this week’s NLJ, former district judge Stephen Gold crunches the numbers ahead of 1 April. As Gold writes, ‘issue before then and clients will be much impressed’.