Legal News

The Law Commission, which advises the government on reform, has floated the idea of giving artificial intelligence (AI) systems legal personality

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is revisiting historic applications for indeterminate sentences imposed on children and young adults

Lawyers have welcomed the coming into force of the Arbitration Act 2025, which simplifies procedures and speeds up arbitrators’ powers to dismiss weak cases

Conveyancers can now submit documents signed with a Qualified Electronic Signature (QES) tool, HM Land Registry has said

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) data breach is worse than previously thought, it emerged last week

The Supreme Court’s decision on car dealership commission may have saved the banks but it still leaves the door ‘ajar’ for further claims, lawyers have said

How do overlapping insurance policies interact? In NLJ this week, Chris Bates and Jordan Ball of Penningtons Manches Cooper explore this question in Watford Community Housing Trust v Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers Ltd 

In this week's NLJ, Emily Carter and Sahil Kher of Kingsley Napley reflect on the Ayinde case and the broader implications of AI in frontline legal services. The authors argue that while AI offers transformative potential for under-resourced law centres, it also deepens the divide between well-funded firms and those on the frontline

The murky rise of unlawfully obtained evidence in litigation is explored in this week's NLJ by Natalie Todd of Cooke, Young & Keidan and Nicholas Bortman of Raedas. From hacked emails to covert recordings and pretexting, investigators are pushing legal boundaries—and courts in England and beyond are increasingly admitting such material if it serves the public interest, even as they condemn the methods used

Dan Moore, Richard Ellis and Jack Sears of Charles Russell Speechlys offer a vital guide for insolvency practitioners (IPs) navigating the UK’s financial services regulatory maze, in this week's NLJ