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A family lawyer has won a £500 donation for her preferred charity, an education centre for women from disadvantaged backgrounds, thanks to drug, alcohol and DNA testing laboratory AlphaBiolabs’ Giving Back campaign

Should third-party funding be regulated? If so, how and by whom? This is just one of many thorny questions likely to occupy the minds of litigation lawyers in the year ahead, David Greene, NLJ consultant editor and senior partner at Edwin Coe, writes in this week’s issue.

Could law enforcement agencies tasked with recovering stolen cryptoassets have a silver bullet in their arsenal? In this week’s NLJ, Ashley Fairbrother, partner, and Joe Nahal-Macdonald, senior associate, at Edmonds Marshall McMahon, and Sarah Wood, barrister at 5 St Andrews Hill, examine the new powers provided by Part 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, courtesy of legislation implemented in 2024.

The reporting pilot has been deemed successful and will roll out to all family courts in England and Wales

Legal professionals looking to get more out of their LinkedIn profiles are invited to a special event in Leeds at Eversheds Sutherland, hosted by TBD Marketing.

The High Court has swooped to the rescue of 79 ex-couples, following a colossal computer error that threatened to render their divorce orders void.

Commercial and corporate fee earners in London with more than eight years’ experience are valued at £566 per hour, following an uplift to the solicitors’ guideline hourly rates.

Five men, including two solicitors, are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court next week to answer charges against them in connection with the collapse of Axiom Ince.

About one third of respondents agree remote hearings are more efficient (31%) or provide the same opportunity for individuals to present their side of the story (35%), the Ministry of Justice’s Legal Problem and Resolution Survey 2023, published in December, has found.

The Law Commission is consulting on proposals to simplify, consolidate and modernise the law of compulsory purchase.